Adoptive dads face unique challenges related to their spiritual journey, marriage and children. We give attention to these areas and encourage each other to carefully shepherd our families. 

This Saturday we are going to engage in a seminar titled “Caring for the Caregiver.”

•           Discuss the need to care for ourselves and fellow caregivers, especially when we are helping traumatized people.

•           Identify difficulties we face in caring for hurting and traumatized people

•           Assess how well we are caring for ourselves.

•           Consider the Bible’s teachings about how to share our loads of caregiving

with others.

•           Set goals for self-care.

Adoptive dads face unique challenges related to their spiritual journey, marriage and children. We give attention to these areas and encourage each other to carefully shepherd our families. 

We'd like to return to the topic of shame and dig a bit deeper into this topic. I would suggest the book by Curt Thompson titled, "The Soul of Shame" as a reference for our discussions. 

Feelings of shame can have harmful outcomes in our relationships. Most children coming to our homes from other family systems will have a deep core of shame already pre-loaded. It may be that many of us do as well. This hinders building trust and secure attachments.

Shame loves to stay hidden. We will attempt to drag it out of the shadows to help us live in freedom and grow in our parenting capacities.

Adoptive dads face unique challenges related to their spiritual journey, marriage and children. We give attention to these areas and encourage each other to carefully shepherd our families. During our time together, we will discuss the challenge of offering developmentally helpful nurture and structure in our relationships.

Many of our adopted children are prone to destructive behaviors during their teens and early 20's. The reasons are many layered. For Christian fathers, the domain of sexual activity is probably the most disturbing to figure out. This Saturday morning, we'll discuss some possible strategies to help us move through this challenging season.

Adoptive dads face unique challenges related to their spiritual journey, marriage and children. We give attention to these areas and encourage each other to carefully shepherd our families. During our time together, we will discuss the challenge of offering developmentally helpful nurture and structure in our relationships.

Adoptive dads face unique challenges related to their spiritual journey, marriage and children. We give attention to these areas and encourage each other to carefully shepherd our families. During our time together, we will discuss the challenge of offering developmentally helpful nurture and structure in our relationships.

We will look at how an insecure attachment might affect my relationship with God, my children, my spouse, and others. We will discover the origins of insecure attachments and how, by the grace of God, we can work to repair them.

Adoptive dads face unique challenges related to their spiritual journey, marriage and children. We give attention to these areas and encourage each other to carefully shepherd our families. During our time together, we will discuss the challenge of offering developmentally helpful nurture and structure in our relationships.

We will look at how an insecure attachment might affect my relationship with God, my children, my spouse, and others. We will discover the origins of insecure attachments and how, by the grace of God, we can work to repair them.

Adoptive dads face unique challenges related to their spiritual journey, marriage and children. We give attention to these areas and encourage each other to carefully shepherd our families. During our time together, we will explore the topic of unrealized expectations and how we might deal with them.

Adoptive dads face unique challenges related to their spiritual journey, marriage and children. We give attention to these areas and encourage each other to carefully shepherd our families. During our time together, we will explore the topic of unrealized expectations and how we might deal with them.

Adoptive dads face unique challenges related to their spiritual journey, marriage and children. We give attention to these areas and encourage each other to carefully shepherd our families. During our time together, we will explore the topic of unrealized expectations and how we might deal with them.

In partnership with Bethlehem Baptist Church South, imago hearts will host Hope for the Journey Simulcast Conference

The Hope for the Journey Conference will equip parents and caregivers meeting the everyday needs of children and further resource churches in their endeavors to be beacons of hope and encouragement for families in their congregation and surrounding communities.

Featuring Trust-Based Relational Intervention® methods developed by Dr. Karyn Purvis and Dr. David Cross from the Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development at TCU to help deepen connection in families.

Register at Eventbrite:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hope-for-the-journey-tickets-142915085869?aff=ebdssbeac

Presented by SHOW HOPE

Pathways to the Heart;   Beginning with the Children of Israel, we see that our heavenly Father is intentionally and actively working to win the hearts of His people. Often times, adopted parents find themselves needing to rebuild the foundation of the child’s belief system. We take a look at a biblical model, which offers a paradigm to do so. We then discuss day-to-day parenting strategies, which, when implemented, can help win the child’s trust and build their sense of value.

FOR Adoptive Dads BY Adoptive Dads.

Adoptive and foster dads face unique challenges related to their marriage and children. We give attention to these areas and encourage each other to carefully shepherd our families. 

I will be leading a workshop at this conference titled, "The Dad who Comforts"

The main speakers for this conference are David and Jayne Schooler. David has served in the pastoral and counseling ministry for over 40 years. Both David and Jayne are recognized nationally and internationally as speakers/trainers in the field of adoption and foster care. Serving full time with Back2Back Ministries their international work takes them regularly to India, Nigeria, Mexico and Haiti.

Jayne is the author/co-author of eight books in the field of child welfare including Wounded Children, Healing Homes: How Traumatized Children Impact Adoptive and Foster Parents and Parenting in Transracial Adoption. David and Jayne are parents by birth and adoption and grandparents of four.