Kate Rietema

Nov 30, 2024 | baptistmessenger.com | Kate Rietema

This article was originally written by Kate Rietema and published to Lifeway Research. Our first foster placement arrived 14 years ago. I was a young mother, passionate about living for Jesus and walking in obedience. When I felt Jesus nudge my heart toward foster care and adoption, I fully trusted He would provide all I needed. But after we picked our foster son up from the pediatric intensive care unit, it didn’t take long for me to feel completely overwhelmed.

Nov 28, 2024 | kentuckytoday.com | Kate Rietema

Our first foster placement arrived 14 years ago. I was a young mother, passionate about living for Jesus and walking in obedience. When I felt Jesus nudge my heart toward foster care and adoption, I fully trusted He would provide all I needed. But after we picked our foster son up from the pediatric intensive care unit, it didn’t take long for me to feel completely overwhelmed.

Nov 28, 2024 | kentuckytoday.com | Kate Rietema

Our first foster placement arrived 14 years ago. I was a young mother, passionate about living for Jesus and walking in obedience. When I felt Jesus nudge my heart toward foster care and adoption, I fully trusted He would provide all I needed. But after we picked our foster son up from the pediatric intensive care unit, it didn’t take long for me to feel completely overwhelmed.

Nov 25, 2024 | baptistpress.com | Michelle Ryan |Kate Rietema |Scott Barkley |Tom Strode

With the devastating scale of this year’s hurricane destruction filling the news, human efforts to help can feel futile. That feeling of despair and the inability to do something eventually gives way to a much more tolerable feeling of apathy, which I believe characterizes the attitudes of many college students like me. After all, what control do we have over such a disaster when our own lives are so heavily dictated by our grades and work schedules? Fortunately, I found I could make a difference.

Nov 25, 2024 | baptistpress.com | Kate Rietema |Scott Barkley |Tom Strode |Tobin Perry

Metadata:Topic(s): LifewayShare this post: Editor’s note: November is National Adoption Awareness Month. Our first foster placement arrived 14 years ago. I was a young mother, passionate about living for Jesus and walking in obedience. When I felt Jesus nudge my heart toward foster care and adoption, I fully trusted He would provide all I needed. But after we picked our foster son up from the pediatric intensive care unit, it didn’t take long for me to feel completely overwhelmed.