The Adoption & Foster Care Journey Sandra Flach

"Though my father and mother forsake me, the LORD will receive me." Psalm 27:10
 
Welcome to The Adoption & Foster Care Journey—a podcast to encourage, educate and equip you to care for children in crisis through adoption, foster care and kinship care.
 
On this episode, host Sandra Flach, talks with Marina Carrier. Marina lived through early trauma as an illegitimate unwanted child. As a little girl she was sexually abused and left for dead. As an adult, she became a teacher, married, and adopted a child. Then, God called her back to the Church where she learned what it means to live in “spirit and in truth.” 
 
Listen in as Marina shares how the suffering of her childhood became revealed and unraveled as she embraced her faith and allowed her heart to change. With greater understanding of the effects of trauma and PTSD, healing in faith brought compassion and a heart to bless and serve others who also bear the heavy burdens of lovelessness and shame.
 
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Links mentioned in this episode:
justicefororphansny.org
justicefororphansny.org/hope-community    
Email:  sandraflach@justicefororphansny.org
SandraFlach.com
Overcoming.live

"You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you." -Isaiah 26:3
 
Welcome to The Adoption & Foster Care Journey—a podcast to encourage, educate and equip you to care for children in crisis through adoption, foster care and kinship care.
 
Throughout the month of June, we’re focusing on dads! This week we’re talking with foster and adoptive dad, Adam Southerland. Adam is the missions and ministry pastor at New Hope Community Church in Queensbury, NY. He grew unpin southeast Michigan, where he married his wife Hanna. Their oldest daughter was adopted as an infant in 2018, followed by two biological sons. Adam and Hannah are currently foster parents and lead their church’s foster and adoption ministry—including CarePortal.
 
Listen in as Adam shares his family’s “yes” to adoption and foster care. 
 
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Links mentioned in this episode:
justicefororphansny.org
justicefororphansny.org/hope-community    
Email:  sandraflach@justicefororphansny.org
SandraFlach.com

"For you know how, like a father with his children, we exhorted each one of you and encouraged you and charged you to walk in a manner worthy of God, who calls you into His own kingdom and glory." -1 Thessalonians 2:11-12
 
Welcome to The Adoption & Foster Care Journey—a podcast to encourage, educate and equip you to care for children in crisis through adoption, foster care and kinship care.
 
Throughout the month of June, we’re focusing on dads! This week we’re talking with our resident expert—and foster dad—Dr. Jerrod Brown.
 
Listen in as Dr. Brown unpacks neuro-parenting and how dads (and moms) can apply brain-based strategies to better connect with and support our kids from hard places. 
 
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Links mentioned in this episode:
justicefororphansny.org
justicefororphansny.org/hope-community    
Email:  sandraflach@justicefororphansny.org
SandraFlach.com

"I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me." -Galatians 2:20
 
Welcome to The Adoption & Foster Care Journey—a podcast to encourage, educate and equip you to care for children in crisis through adoption, foster care and kinship care.
 
Throughout the month of June, we’re focusing on dads! To kick us off, this week host Sandra Flach talks with Joshua Legg. Joshua is passionate about helping men grow in Christ and seeing marriages healed. He understands the complexities of families parenting children with special needs and is well versed in Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders—both professionally and as a brother of an adopted sibling with FAS. 
 
Joshua pursues his passion for dads and families as a pastor, and through discipleship mentoring, and coaching. He and his wife Heather offer marriage intensives, drawing from their own journey and walking beside couples as they heal.
 
Listen in as Joshua offers encouragement and hope to foster and adoptive parents—especially dads.
 
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Links mentioned in this episode:
justicefororphansny.org
justicefororphansny.org/hope-community    
Email:  sandraflach@justicefororphansny.org
SandraFlach.com
joshualeggcoaching.com

"Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance." 1 Corinthians 13:7
 
Welcome to The Adoption & Foster Care Journey—a podcast to encourage, educate and equip you to care for children in crisis through adoption, foster care and kinship care.
 
On this week’s episode host Sandra Flach talks with Todd and Kristin Evans about their new book, How to Build a Thriving Marriage as You Care for Children with Disabilities.
 
Listen in as the Evans’s share how the chronic stress of raising their children with disabilities affected their marriage and how they went from barely surviving to thriving. 
 
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Links mentioned in this episode:
justicefororphansny.org
justicefororphansny.org/hope-community    
Email:  sandraflach@justicefororphansny.org
SandraFlach.com
disabilityparenting.com

"But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore, I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content, with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong."  2 Corinthians 12:9-10
 
Welcome to The Adoption & Foster Care Journey—a podcast to encourage, educate and equip you to care for children in crisis through adoption, foster care and kinship care.
 
On this week’s episode host Sandra Flach talks with Jennifer Kritner, Vice President of Retail and Company Culture at Unclaimed Baggage. She also serves as the director of Unclaimed Baggage’s charitable foundation, Reclaimed For Good. Jennifer is passionate about the company’s purpose “to redeem the lost, unclaimed and rejected—for the glory of God.” She and her husband, Patrick, are also passionate about foster care and adoption and regularly welcome children into their home.
 
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Links mentioned in this episode:
justicefororphansny.org
justicefororphansny.org/hope-community    
Email:  sandraflach@justicefororphansny.org
SandraFlach.com
@unclaimedbag