This past weekend at the O’Dwyer Retreat House in Sparks, I enjoyed a weekend long Calvert Hall peer ministry retreat. The agenda included reviewing what peer ministry is about, attributes of good peer ministers, practicing our “witness talks,” and how to lead junior retreat, small groups and prayer. The retreatRead More
As we were taking the first steps on our adoption journey, I trusted that God would lead us to our child. I wasn’t sure which country we would find our child in, whether that child would be a girl or a boy, whether she would like pickles or polka or heRead More
When John and I started our adoption journey, our social workers at Catholic Charities told us we should try to connect with other adoptive parents. It would be important, they said, to form relationships with families whose children shared our child’s heritage. It would also be beneficial for our childRead More