We miss so many opportunities to serve vulnerable women when we fail to empathize with and educate ourselves about crisis pregnancy situations. This week, experts from Lifeline Children’s Services join host Lynette Ezell in discussing their new curriculum “Worthy” which they hope will revolutionize the way churches engage with women struggling with unexpected pregnancies.

Get the Worthy Curriculum here.

When Shane, National Director of Next Gen Evangelism for the North American Mission Board, and Kasi Pruitt’s family answered God’s call to international adoption, they weren’t aware of all the challenges their new infant son would be facing in life. Upon their arrival in Uganda, they quickly realized he would need extensive, lifelong medical treatments. Kasi shares the beauty of unexpected blessings and the strength the Lord has provided her family through their supportive community.

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For helpful resources for foster and adoptive families through Lakepointe Church, where Kasi serves, visit lakepointe.church/adoption.

As the Lord uses us to take the gospel to the nations and across the street, we see things we can never unsee and we are eternally changed. In this Part 2 recording, Michelle Chitwood from the International Mission Board and Host, Lynette Ezell, discuss the ripple effect of our “yes” and how it changes our preplanned lives. From sharing our families through adoption to opening our homes to the vulnerable during Christmas, a life of love and obedience proves to bring the greatest joys.

Find more adoption and foster care resources at SendRelief.org

This week on The Adopting and Fostering Home podcast, Michelle Chitwood with the International Mission Board, shares about her unconventional family of four. With ages ranging from 24 to 8, the Chitwoods have two biological children, one adopted daughter who was adopted internationally and one daughter adopted from the Kentucky foster care system. Listen to their unusual path to adoption later in life.

Get more fostering and adopting resources at SendRelief.org.

This week’s episode features an informative discussion with Christie Mac Segars and Karla Thrasher of Lifeline Children’s Services. With Host Lynette Ezell, they dive into the topic of Open Adoption and what it looks like for Domestic and International adoptions. Listen to find out how the calling to adoption or  foster care are an invitation to step into family reconciliation.

For more information to begin an adoption go to Lifelinechild.org.

Join us at SendRelief.org for further Adoption and Foster Care resources.

For National Adoption Awareness Month, host Lynette Ezell interviews high school sweethearts Montana and Amanda Jones about their experience as a mixed family, with one biological daughter and one adopted son, and the beginnings of their pursuit of open adoption.

Find more resources for foster and adoptive families at SendRelief.org.

On this week’s episode of The Adopting and Fostering Home podcast, host Lynette Ezell interviews pastor Shaq Hardy about his childhood and what it was like being in the foster care system until the age of ten.

Open adoptions may be confusing or daunting when you’re growing your family. On this week’s episode, AFH host Lynette Ezell interviews mother and adopted daughter, Karen LaBarr and Christy Harmon, about their relationship with Christy’s birth mother and how it has shaped their family.

Corey Taylor is a 23-year-old foster parent who has been on the adoption and fostering journey for 10 months now. Each week brings him closer to officially being able to adopt the 6-year-old boy he has grown to love. This week on the Adopting and Fostering Home podcast, Taylor shares with host Lynette Ezell how God prompted him to become a single foster parent when he was 21 and the practical steps he took to prepare his heart and home on this journey of obedience.

For a free, downloadable guide on how to care well for foster families amid the pandemic, go to sendrelief.org/foster-care-adoption.

Host Lynette Ezell interviews author Adrian C. Collins about being both a “brave and blemished” parent as she re-adopted her daughter, whom she surrendered custody of as a newborn. Collins discusses overcoming shame and the hurdles of mother-daughter relationships in this in-depth interview.

To stay updated on Adrian’s honest and inspiring journey, subscribe to her blog at adrianccollins.com.

For a free downloadable guide on how to care well for foster families amid the pandemic, go to sendrelief.org/covid.