My first post :
) Where do I begin? This blog is my journal of the path that
myself and others will take to open a Children's Home for foster children in Northern Macomb County
When I was 8 years
old my mother sponsored an 8 year old girl in the Detroit Baptist Home for
Christmas. I remember thinking how awful
it would be to not feel wanted. I
couldn't stop thinking about school age children who were orphaned or taken
from their families. This stayed with me
into my adult life.
After having a child
of my own, I prayed about fostering children.
Nearing retirement age and having 2 adult children, my husband agreed to
looking into the possibility. We went to
a Christian foster adoption agency for their orientation. My husband told me that he believed that God
really wanted us to go through with it.
So we did all of the necessary things and became licensed.
We requested a 2-4 year
old girl, specifically, no special needs children. My mother was living with us and our son was 4,
we thought this would be best. God had other
plans. Our first child was a 20 month old
boy. When the agency called we could not
turn him down. He had been found in his crib
2 weeks from starving to death. His mother
was on the floor next to him dead. His middle
name was our son's name, We had him for four
months, when his father did everything he needed to do to get him back. It was very hard and we cried a lot, but knew it
was best for him. And we know that we can
pray for him for the rest of our lives.
