My name is Sarah and my husband and I decided to start fostering really when we first decided to become parents. We felt that when we looked at the example that God had set, Birth children is one part of that in the same way that he created us, but he also cares for us and claims us, which we see mirrored in foster care and adoption.
There's excitement of being a first-time parent, but at the same time, there's all these nerves of meeting this stranger, this child that you've never met, don't know anything about. DSS tells you as much as they can, but very often, it's an emergency, it's short notice. Foster parenting is scary. That's the simplest way to put it.
And when you walk through the doors of PS I Love You, every single face there understands. And that's huge because a lot of people don't. So to go in and to get all the material supplies you need, but then to also just have had that experience of, I'm not alone in this journey. I have this whole community of people behind me.
Over the years with PSI Love You Ministries, it's been incredible to watch how God has provided for all of our needs from as little as providing the clothes and the shoes for the kids as to providing two buildings for us to be able to expand into other resources.
Foster parents come with a lot of different needs, physically and emotionally. We've opened a training center to be able to begin to meet the emotional needs of the foster parents and educate them on better ways to deal with trauma and to deal with the things that they deal with daily with foster children. It's a 24-hour-a-day, 7-days-a-week job and we want to be available for those parents to be able to be a resource that they can call on in times of need.
For more information about fostering and the support PS I Love You provides to families, explore these links...
by emailing info@psiloveyouministries.org
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