Embarking on an adoption and fostering journey often brings about unforeseen challenges. Food insecurity can be one of them. In this episode, Lynette Ezell and Tera Melber draw upon their personal experiences to provide crucial insight and ideas that can help fostering/adoptive parents help their children adjust to the difficulties food insecurity can bring into the home.

In addition, our hosts share a few resources designed to give listeners tips on how to help their children develop consistently healthy eating habits.

Find out how to give to the Ministry Adoption Fund by visiting sendrelief.org/foster-care-adoption/.

Kansas City author, pastor and seminary teacher Todd Chipman returns with hosts Lynette Ezell and Tera Melber to continue the discussion of his new book, Until Every Child Is Home: Why the Church Can and Must Care for Orphans.

In this episode, Chipman hones in on what it takes to create a serious presence of child adoption and foster care in our local churches, highlighting the importance of pastoral involvement. He also sheds light on how Christian adoption and foster care can help redirect and transform victims of human trafficking.

Chipman’s own experiences as both an adopted child and an adoptive parent bring extra layers of credibility to his perspectives on adoption and foster care ministry which should be helpful for both individuals and churches looking to get involved.

Find out how to give to the Ministry Adoption Fund by visiting sendrelief.org/foster-care-adoption/.

Regardless of the varying contexts adoptive and foster parents raise their children in, most won’t be shy about their quest to find value and encouragement through resources tailored specifically for them.

In today’s episode of the Adopting and Fostering Home Podcast, Kansas City author, pastor and seminary teacher Todd Chipman joins hosts Lynette Ezell and Tera Melber to discuss his new book, Until Every Child Is Home: Why the Church Can and Must Care for Orphans.

Chipman’s own experiences as both an adopted child and an adoptive parent bring extra layers of credibility to his perspectives on adoption and foster care ministry which should be helpful for both individuals and churches looking to get involved.

BOOK GIVEAWAY: Lynette and Tera want to give 100 listeners a free copy of Chipman’s book. Just text CHIPMAN to 888-123 (Msg & data rates apply) to receive a book request form. The first 100 listeners who send in their request by or before December 31, 2019 will be awarded a free copy of Until Every Child Is Home.

Also, find out how to give to the Ministry Adoption Fund by visiting sendrelief.org/foster-care-adoption/.

Join co-hosts Lynette Ezell and Tera Melber as they discuss the myths of domestic adoption with their special guest. She is the mother to one biological daughter and two sons, ages 9 and 3, who joined their family through infant adoption. But this journey to adoption took a long time. Hear her story of adoption in Georgia and discover several myths about domestic adoption.

To learn more about adoption and foster care, visit sendrelief.org/foster-care-adoption.

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Join co-hosts Lynette Ezell and Tera Melber as they discuss the myths of domestic adoption with their guest. After a miscarriage, she wrestled with anxiety and depression. Like many who long to be parents, she didn’t understand why she couldn’t be the one to raise that child. In part one of this two-part series, hear how she began to understand God’s sovereignty over her life despite not knowing what the future holds.

Be inspired by listening to her brave and transparent story today.

To learn more about adoption and foster care, visit sendrelief.org/foster-care-adoption.

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The life of a foster parent can be rewarding and satisfying as it provides tremendous opportunities to glorify God by impacting vulnerable young lives. However, that doesn’t mean foster parenting is without its trying or even traumatic moments. Join co-hosts Lynette Ezell and Tera Melber as they listen to Nicole Barlow share how life as a biological mother of one and foster mom of a group of five siblings has stretched her and husband Bruce’s capacity to handle unexpected moments of trauma with the love of Jesus.

Favorite Resources from Nicole:

“The Soul of Shame,” by Dr. Curt Thompson, MD; Empoweredtoconnect.org

Find out how to give to the Ministry Adoption Fund to help families like the Barlows by visiting sendrelief.org/foster-care-adoption/.

What appears to be a mystery to us is fully known to God. Sometimes we make plans to foster and adopt and other times God unexpectedly opens the door for an opportunity that was not on our radar. Join co-hosts Lynette Ezell and Tera Melber as they listen to Katherine and Nathan Brown’s unconventional adoption story, and find out how a couple who had never considered foster care or adoption ended up fostering while serving in their local homeless shelter.

Favorite Resources from the Browns:

Find out how to give to the Ministry Adoption Fund—to help families like the Browns— by visiting sendrelief.org/foster-care-adoption/.

Want to know more? Visit https://www.sendrelief.org/foster-care-adoption/.