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Archives for May 2013

FIT to be together

May 31, 2013 By Wendy Willard · Leave a Comment ·

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 […]

Filed Under: + Adoption Care, Family Life · Tagged With: adoption process, fostering in Nicaragua

Sewing Classes

May 15, 2013 By Wendy Willard · Leave a Comment ·

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. […]

Filed Under: + Service Opps · Tagged With: missionaries, Nicaragua

Our journey into foster care

May 11, 2013 By Wendy Willard · 1 Comment ·

Is there room in your family for a child in need?

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, […]

Filed Under: + Foster Care · Tagged With: foster parenting, psalm 68, social services

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