History Behind the News with Lorelee

Today we are talking with Focus on the Family Canada. They have great resources for families and churches.

Wendy who we will be talking with is an adoptive parent herself. Wendy is going to be talking about an overseas adoption but from a different point of view. her daughter is now 18 so she is going to be talking about being an interracial family and what she has seen in the last 18 years.

Wendy also talks about raising the child based on their stage of development and not based on their age.

Focus on the Families resources.

waitingtobelong.ca

Families who need our help in bringing their children to Canada.

https://theprovince.com/news/local-news/abbotsford-pastors-tangled-up-in-red-tape-trying-to-bring-home-adopted-two-year-old-african-boy/wcm/7144b8ae-ea29-41d5-9115-6696234bc2d7?fbclid=IwAR314A_HRSdfPts_HFrtOGu-Jx91CmUvA3rdtl7dOPl0TVBASF7MAX2uPlw

Allison was ready to adopt, but it took a while for her husband to be in the same place. Then one Sunday at church they met a sibling group that needed a family!

Today we are talking to Amanda. She is from BC. She has adopted eight children, seven have special needs. In this episode, we are talking about what the church can do to help support the families that are adopting and fostering special needs children.

homeforeverychild.org

A call to overseas adoption led a family to find Jesus Christ.

Stepping out in faith to adopt special needs.

Seeing God in the middle of loss.

Adopting through Embryo adoption.

beginnings.ca - The agency talked about in this epissode.

A mom with young children feels the call to take a mission trip to China. That seemed impossible. It was just the beginning.

To learn more about the mission trips, and Adoption click here. awaa.org

Today I share a clip from a past episode where I share my story of being adopted. I then continue the story.

How I met my birth family.

What it is like to go through the process of adopting.

Leslie talks about her families journey through foster care and adoption and how God led them to adopt older children and a baby with special needs.

Leslie and her husband started a ministry for youth who leave foster care without being adopted. You can learn about that here. https://www.facebook.com/wraparound823/

In this first episode we look at the story of a family that had every reason to not foster or adopt. But when they got the phone call they knew what they needed to do.

A story of an adoptive family that needs our help. Canada has some questions we need to ask ourselves about sovereignty. And the UN is using the climate change to gain gontrol.

Music by https://soundcloud.com/user-190940492

Climate expert talking about the UN and Environmentalism: https://youtu.be/ZmqqRF9lkfw

Go fund me page for the adoptive family.

https://www.gofundme.com/nigeria-adoption?fbclid=IwAR2bwMva-fMQehleYvCjXKBXZ7czJ4RBTUtPdnCnD5QfsZrg3BHGl5rkGPQ