It is with great delight that we celebrate the recent go live of Stephens County in southern Oklahoma. Stephens County is the first active county in Oklahoma, thereby making Oklahoma the fourth state in which churches are actively meeting […]
“We need to change our system. We need everybody to get involved.”
So says Joni Haitt in the video below, who has served as a foster parent for 136 children over the past 25 years.
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We’ve broken a record, Kansans. We’ve […]
There is a story being written about your church. It won’t appear in the local newspaper or newscast, allowing for broad consumption; yet, this story will be implicitly carried in the hearts of those across the community. That story […]
Perhaps the biggest misconception about the foster care system: I have to be a foster parent to engage in the child welfare system.
This misconception has emerged because of the lack of awareness: there are simply ineffective means to communicate […]
Have you heard the story of The Crayon Initiative?
It’s a beautiful tale, emerging from a willingness to ask a question and then to follow the response to the very end. It was founded by a father who asked a […]
First, watch this 3 minute video. It’s the story of, what the video creators call, the “equivalent of the great wall of China.”
Please note that the hobby of ant excavation typically involves the selection of dormant, abandoned ant hills. […]
A good friend of our ministry recently completed police academy training. He told me police are taught to run towards gunfire. They go where the trouble is, step into the fight, and protect the innocent. It’s not safe, but […]
Single father. Foster parent. Teacher.
Any of the three aforementioned labels are enough to incite a spirit of sympathy. For each individual role carries with it an expectation of burden – a beautiful burden, mind you – but a burden, […]
Product of the system.
It’s a cold statement, much like the reality that it is intended to describe. The phrase generally carries a negative connotation, implying that structural circumstances outweigh the individual considerations at play. Yet, the negative connotations married […]
It was Puritan minister Roger Williams who first alluded to the separation of church and state, noting a “hedge or wall of separation between the garden of the church and the wilderness of the world.” In an 1802 letter, […]