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07-31-2008, 04:39 PM
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Prayer for Sister Eastman and I
As some of you might have known; Me and Sister Eastman have been trying to become foster parents for awhile now. Next Saturday we start our courses for becoming foster parents. We covet your prayers as we endeavor to do this great work. Please help us pray that we will be successfull throughout this process, and we would also love your prayers to become instrumental in displaying the love of God in our home to all who will pass through here. Thank you, and God bless!
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07-31-2008, 04:52 PM
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Re: Prayer for Sister Eastman and I
praying here in Brazil and may God bless you all.
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07-31-2008, 04:53 PM
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Incredible India
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Re: Prayer for Sister Eastman and I
God Bless you both, any child would be fortunate to have you both as parents!
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07-31-2008, 04:57 PM
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Re: Prayer for Sister Eastman and I
Praying for you both!
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07-31-2008, 05:17 PM
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Re: Prayer for Sister Eastman and I
Been there, done that, Bro Eastman. You've got my prayers.
Trust me when I tell you that getting licensed isn't the hard part. But the whole experience is so rewarding as long as you maintain the right attitude. One thing that I thought continuously was that for some of these kids, even if we only had them for a month, it might be the best month of their entire life. For some, it might be that having experienced a good family even for a short time might make all the difference in how they will choose to raise their own families some day.
But the biggest thing I had to work on my attitude for was the parents. I came to realize that in about 90% or more of the cases, it wasn't that the parents had set out purposely to hurt or neglect their children. For many of them, they were only doing what they had grown up with. This was their chance to break the cycle. Believe it or not, SOME actually took advantage of that.
We had one family of 4 children who were here from Guatemala working the fields. The dad beat the 6 year old little girl severely because she hadn't followed his directions. When confronted about it, he told children's services that everyone disciplined their children this way in his mountain village and he didn't know any other way. He told that that if they could teach him a better way, he really wanted to learn it because he hated hurting his children. But he didn't want them to grow up undisciplined either. DHS worked with him and eventually he got the kids back. A year later the 6 year old (7 years old by then) stole a pack of gum from Walmart. When he found out, he called DHS and told them to come out and show him how to discipline her for this because he did not know how to do it, but he could not leave this unpunished. That was a very smart move!
Are you looking to adopt out of this experience? or just to do foster care?
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07-31-2008, 05:29 PM
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Re: Prayer for Sister Eastman and I
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Originally Posted by BrotherEastman
As some of you might have known; Me and Sister Eastman have been trying to become foster parents for awhile now. Next Saturday we start our courses for becoming foster parents. We covet your prayers as we endeavor to do this great work. Please help us pray that we will be successfull throughout this process, and we would also love your prayers to become instrumental in displaying the love of God in our home to all who will pass through here. Thank you, and God bless!
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Hey, Brother, that is awesome. I didn't know you guys were thinking of going this route. Is it just foster parenting you are interested in, or are you guys thinking of going all the way and adopting some children too? This is so cool.
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07-31-2008, 05:40 PM
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Re: Prayer for Sister Eastman and I
Brother Kodak,
I am praying! Sounds like an adventure.
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Titus2woman on AFF
"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
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07-31-2008, 07:01 PM
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Re: Prayer for Sister Eastman and I
Praying for y'all. God bless you both, foster parents are really needed.
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He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
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07-31-2008, 07:21 PM
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Rebel with a cause.
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Re: Prayer for Sister Eastman and I
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Originally Posted by BrotherEastman
As some of you might have known; Me and Sister Eastman have been trying to become foster parents for awhile now. Next Saturday we start our courses for becoming foster parents. We covet your prayers as we endeavor to do this great work. Please help us pray that we will be successfull throughout this process, and we would also love your prayers to become instrumental in displaying the love of God in our home to all who will pass through here. Thank you, and God bless!
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Praying here!
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07-31-2008, 09:07 PM
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Christmas 2009
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Re: Prayer for Sister Eastman and I
Our children's pastors had foster kids for a while at our last church. We ended up falling in love with each one of them, and we had the privilege of baptizing a 12 year old one before she was returned to her family. What you're hoping to do is such a need in our country. God bless you!
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