Over the past few months, we’ve talked a lot about how much we want to help the families traveling to Nicaragua to adopt orphans. While we aren’t adopting ourselves (at least not at this point), we have a desire to do whatever we can to ensure the families who come here to adopt are able […]
Sewing Classes
My father-in-law likes to say that many of the people we meet in Nicaragua need the two j’s… Jesus and jobs. This week, I got to see just how life-changing the combination of those two can be. As you might recall from my previous blog post, some missionaries come to Nicaragua to help start churches. […]
Our journey into foster care
May is National Foster Care Month. In honor of this, I thought I should let you know a little about why we became foster parents, and what you can do to change a child’s life. On our honeymoon, I remember romantically talking about how many children we’d have. Regardless of which number we settled on, […]
Laura’s Story
We’ve been talking about the need for some sort of adoption care ministry here in Nicaragua. I asked our friend, Laura, to write about her family’s experience adopting a child from Nicaragua last year. The rest of this post is from Laura: Our family recently finalized the adoption of our now 10 month old son. […]