Welcome to Springs of Love
Join us as we share inspiring real stories of families touched by fostering and adoption, while also helping families discern and live out the call to foster and adopt. Come here to learn more about the adoption triad (birth parents, adoptive parents, and adoptees), as well as how to get involved with helping vulnerable children in foster care either through fostering or supporting a foster family. If you are discerning if you might be called to foster or adopt, please sign up for our free Be Not Afraid virtual retreat to receive immediate access.
Do you have a story of adoption or fostering to share? We need writers who have a passion for fostering and adopting, as well as administrative and design help. Contact us for more information. Please pray that God prospers this work of His hands. Thank you!
Lift Up Adoption Love
Explore our Adoption Love page, featuring stories and videos from Adoptees, Adoptive Parents, and Birth Families — all three sides of the Adoption Triad. Debunk 10 Myths about Adoption or start on your adoption journey with 10 Steps to Adoption.
Video Stories
Watch our inspiring, original video stories of former foster youth, foster families, and adoptive families.
Fostering Love
Check out our section celebrating foster families with stories, videos, articles, and more. Learn about Fostering Love!
Radical solidarity through fostering kids, supporting families
Dr. Kimberly Henkel reflects on the meaning of “Radical Solidarity” in fostering: “When we went to the hospital after Anthony had been born, I wondered about his birth mother who had just gone through nine months carrying him in her womb, and endured childbirth only to have her baby boy ripped from her arms and placed into mine. My heart ached for her. This woman who gave birth to the greatest joy of my life up to that point would return home with no baby. Yes, she had problems that made it unsafe for her to raise her child. Yes, it was clearly best for the child to be placed elsewhere. But what would become of her?”
Register for our Foster & Adoption Virtual Retreat
Have you wondered if God might be calling you to open your heart to foster or adopt a child? Register for our virtual “retreat” and receive a code for free access to our “Be Not Afraid” discernment video series. In this self-paced series, you will hear beautiful testimonials from couples who have answered the call to foster and adopt. Talks address fostering & adopting after infertility, adopting a child with special needs, international & domestic adoption, adoption from foster care, grieving when foster children leave, adopting older children, what to do when only one spouse feels called, and more. Register today!
Adoption: Wellspring of Love
Women of Grace visits with Kimberly Henkel, co-founder of Springs in the Desert, during Foster Care Awareness Month. Together, they discuss Springs of Love, the option to adopt, and the call to provide a home for children in foster care. May 2023.
Written Stories
A Reflection from an Older Adoptee
My twin sister and I arrived in the United States in January of 2010. I remember some details so well, but others not so much. The first few weeks and months were a blur.
Blossoms
Each May when the world is in bloom, the world celebrates Mother’s Day, and I celebrate the birth day of the daughter that I gave away. Each year, I struggle.
The Daily “Yes” of Foster Care and Adoption
It’s just an ordinary day in the life of a foster parent; at an unknown time and an unknown hour, the phone rings, and just like that, I have said ‘yes’ to welcoming a new person into my life.
