Someone Else’s Shoes

Someone Else’s Shoes

A lot of times as parents we say to our kids; “Put yourself in their shoes.” What we are wanting our kids to do is to think about a situation from someone else’s perspective. This is a skill that I want all of my kids to be able to do. If we can...
Adoption Tax Credit

Adoption Tax Credit

Some of you may know that I (Matt) am a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA). As a CASA, part of my job is to speak on behalf of the kids in court. I take in all of the information that I can assess the situation and make recommendations to the court on what I...

New Pics

We just received some new pictures from Heart for Korah. These are the two grandmas that we are supporting as they take care of their grand kids. If you would like to help us support these two ladies you can do so here.

Finally!

Many of you know and have read about the Empowered to Connect parent trainings that Stacey and I, and Anthony and Lauren Troyer teach in our area. These trainings are 9 week trainings that meet every week for 2 hours every time.I have been working at trying to get our...

Don’t Reinvent The Wheel

It is an expression we all know and use quite often, and we are going to take this expression to heart. Don’t reinvent the wheel.You may have read our recent post entitled Foster Hope, where we laid out our vision to help support foster families in our county....

Oasis – The Concept

Oasis is our vision to help support youth aging out of foster care. We are planning on doing this by creating an Intentional Neighboring Community (INC). You can read more about it on our website here.The WhyThe simple answer to the question, “Why would you want...