It’s summertime, but we’re thinking about Christmas. I was in my office the other day, looking toward a whiteboard our team had filled with numbers. These numbers represented the number of homes available to kids in foster care, the number of kids who still need homes, the number of families who don’t go on to get licensed and more. But what I found myself thinking about besides all those big numbers was how if just one family started the process to become a 4KIDS Foster Family right now, they’d be giving a child a home and a family this Christmas.  […]

Do you remember the old potluck dinners? Or have you ever been to an amazing food festival? There is usually an astounding amount of food or an overwhelming variety of delicacies. People who have attended these amazing food festivals will tell you to decide ahead of time to prioritize what you want to eat and carefully chose how much to eat. Plan ahead. I have made the mistake of trying my best to eat as much as I possibly could of everything. There was just too much to choose from, and I wanted to taste everything. If you do what […]

When I first arrived at Sheridan House, I spent some time with my predecessor about the duties of the executive director of the ministry. Driving home from the office, I felt somewhat discouraged. It seemed the job description indicated I would have to spend all my available time “putting out fires.” Crisis everywhere The next six months proved my expectations correct. Feeling like a fireman, I was simply putting out one fire after another without having any time to do prevention work. I began to feel that either I was incompetent, or the job could not be done.   An […]

It was 30 years ago this April that God used an ad in the Buffalo News to change our lives. My wife Linda and I saw an ad reading, “House Parents, Wanted” – 1,371 miles away from our home in Buffalo. We sold our house, sold our cars, left comfortable jobs, and took off on a new, half-time life adventure. What really made that ad stand out to us was a verse our pastor had shared a few years prior, James 1:22, “Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.”  We set out […]