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In response to our last episode featuring foster mom Caroline, Dr. Ann Maree Goudzwaard interviews the Founder and Executive Director of Fieldstone Counseling in Akron, Ohio, Jonathan Holmes. Jonathan is not only a biblical counselor but he is also an adopted child with deep insight to share about how the church can come alongside adopted and foster children and the families who have chosen to adopt and foster them.
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Visit your county’s dept. of social services website for foster parent info.
Click here to learn more about Jonathan Holmes of Fieldstone Counseling.
Jonathan is the author and contributor to a number of books:
Jonathan
- teaches in the MAC program at Westminster Theological Seminary,
- and he serves as a visiting faculty member for CCEF.
If you are a foster parent looking for a support group in your area please visit Foster the Family support groups.
Alongside Families alongsidefamilies.org. If you don't live in NC upstreamcollab.org
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