In this episode, I dive into what my worldview is and how it impacts my mission and purpose in life. I share how you can discover your mission and live it out.I shed light on why I choose to write and podcast about topics such as foster care and adoption, international missions, non profit ministry, […]

Imagine bringing a 12 year-old boy into your family. How would he fit in with your other two teenage sons? What about the first 12 years of his life that you missed as a father, how do you recapture those years? These were questions that my friend John Alger had to face as an adoptive […]

How self-aware are you as a parent? Do you know what your expectations and motivations are, both before you foster or adopt and after? What about your emotional needs? Can you recognize when your emotional cup is full? How about your attachment style? Do you ever consider how it interacts with your child’s attachment style? […]

How far would you go to try finding a better life for your family? Thousands of women and girls in Thailand leave their homes and families to look for work in the larger cities. Many end up trapped in jobs either directly or indirectly linked to the sex trade. […]

My mom retired several years ago, but she didn’t stop working. She has volunteered in many ways over the past 15-20 years, so I asked her to join me on His Hands His Feet podcast and share with us what she is doing and why. As you can imagine, I enjoyed asking my Mom about […]

We send missionaries all over the world, many into locations that involve danger or at least extreme isolation. Even missionaries in places they can serve openly face challenges that we might not understand. The truth is those of us who “send” missionaries don’t always do a good job of it. We act as if we […]

I know that children shelters and orphanages serve a purpose, but we all need a family to help us heal and be the best we can be. In today’s episode I refer to a story a friend told me about their daughter that they adopted from Ethiopia. My friend’s daughter didn’t cry when she hurt […]

Do you like to hear a good story? Does your family tell the same stories over and over even passing some down from generation to generation? Since the beginning of time, people have learned by hearing stories. Although many people groups formed an alphabet and a written language, to this day around 80% of the […]

I invited my friend Marshall Lyles over to record a podcast as a part of the Dad to Dad series. To remind you, this series is me and another adoptive or foster dad talking about being a dad to a child from a hard place. We share the joys and challenges hoping that our conversation […]

When a preschool told a local foster family that their foster daughter could not attend, this family decided to create a solution not only for themselves but other families. From that experience the idea for Petra Preschool evolved. I interview Phil and Christal Murray, founders of Petra, and Mindy Lee, director of Petra as they […]