I know I am not special and that I am not the first person
to experience big disappointment. I also
know that I have learnt a lot about disappointment, loss and grief in the last
decade and in some ways that has perhaps given me some tools to navigate the
journey we are on as a family in the last few years.
Five years ago, we knew it was time to open our home as a
family to children who needed a forever home.
That was our dream. We did not have
it on the agenda at that point to be foster parents. We prepared ourselves as best we could and
now looking back, knowing we could not have been more ready…
At the time the “perfect fit” of provision for the dream was
laid out for us in relation with Kin Culture.
Here was an organisation that seemed to be created for families like
ours. The synergy was electric. They would build us a house, take care of
schooling and all medical expenses and we needed to provide family and parent
as best as we could. The wonderful “imago
smash” between us and Kin meant we could jump whole heartedly into the dream
and take up to four children, which was what they had said they had as a model
back then…
At the beginning of 2017, we moved and in weeks we had four
new children with the dream of being a forever family to children at risk coming
to fruition and we had all the support we needed… we were in our element!
Turns out that that dream was not a reality and Kin had not
received promised funding and by the end of 2018, we had to move and faced a
future of our four more children without the provision of a home, medical expenses
and schooling… moving off the farm, also meant we got less food support. Our food bill increased exponentially.
Talking to our member care support from Globe Mission the
other day about our current place, she encouraged us to reach out to people for
extra prayer support and tell people the reality of what is going on…
Here I am reaching out to my friends, asking if you are open
to pray with us for provision in this new season, help us pray through breakthroughs
for our “foster” children and their adoptions, which became an option last
year when a traumatologist told social workers working with the children that
parent rights had to be removed from all the parents of our children and awarded
to Holger and me…
I feel ready to share the story of how the family we are working
hard at is under threat...
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