Earning the Keys

When Apollo aged out of foster care, he wasn’t quite ready to drive off into the sunset. He still had a lot of growing up to do, and unlike most eighteen-year-olds, he didn’t have parents continuing to coach him into adulthood. So Apollo moved into...

The Proof is in the Pudding

Michael hated foster care. He had supportive and loving foster parents, a committed MBCH Treatment Family Care support worker, and plenty of resources to help him work through his negative memories and build a positive future for himself. But Michael wasn’t interested in working on...

Love Melts the Heart

It was a cold day in February when Rae picked up Anna from the psychiatric hospital, but Anna shook her head no when Rae offered her a jacket. With short sleeves that showed off all the scars on her arms, Anna was a little too...

I Love Him

“I may have to end this pregnancy,” Sandra said shakily, unsure how The LIGHT House staff would respond. With a life on the line, our pregnancy care support workers knew that love was the only way through. Sandra was terrified of passing on the medical...

Being Commissioned To Love

February – the month of love! The world’s idea of love is often quite different from the type of love we learn about in the Bible, isn’t it? We all know what is referred to as the love chapter – 1 Corinthians 13. “Love is...

The Power of Prayer

John had come a long way since the Richardsons had first stepped in as his foster parents, but all his progress led to a dead end. The Richardsons had nothing left—no options, no ideas, just a futureless child and hours of prayer.   When they...