foster care intro...
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About a month ago Julie and I decided to take our desire to help those who are less fortunate, forgotten or otherwise in need of serious help to a new place. John (in I John) talks about how we are not to love in word but deed and in truth. I still struggle with this because it’s just so much easier to talk and not actual do anything. And I’m great at talken and I’m great at doing nothen -[please keep personal comments about this to yourself, thanks.]
But (as john also says) God is bigger and greater than our hearts. He took are fragile and almost otherwise futile desire to make a difference and filled in all the missing gaps. We decided to begin down the road of foster care –providing a place of provision and protection for those who, as children are utterly defenseless.
We have filled out paper work, had initial/orientation meetings, and taken 3 classes now on our journey to be licensed. We won’t finish these classes till mid-November. So far we have covered in a dozen different ways the ramifications of neglect, abuse & abandonment creating the overwhelming need for foster care and adoption.
We have a ton to learn but believe we are doing the right thing for us as a family. We believe this step of faith will move us closer to the heart of Jesus.
I’ll try to post each week with an update from our class but even more where we are as a family with this.
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