Missy Yoder was only a teenager when she knew she wanted to adopt. Her husband, Doug Yoder, says he “loved kids for a long time, ever since I don’t know when.” Doug and Missy met in Thailand while working under a mission organization called Global Tribes Outreach. During their dating years, both were […]
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In Part 1 of this story, we watched Amy grow from a scared child abused by her stepfather to a young lady of 16 who knows how to express an opinion. After a particularly bad episode, she convinced her mom they needed to leave the abusive Pablo. They opened the door to go grocery shopping
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The following story is true, as Amy told it to me. Names have been changed to protect privacy. When Amy was in her mama’s belly, her mom—a young, unmarried, and terrified Catholic girl—almost aborted her. As a schoolgirl, her stepfather told her repeatedly that she was stupid—mental abuse that hurt far more than any physical
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Since we lost our small one (you can read that post here), I have been thinking a lot more about Charlene, my darling little old lady friend who died. I like to picture the two of them together somewhere in a place I can’t quite get my mind around–but that doesn’t matter as much as
Ten years ago, you wouldn’t have wanted to get on the wrong side of Paul Lansing. An ex-Marine who’d trained for 35 years in martial arts, he was a hulk of a guy with a demeanor that said, “Don’t mess with me.” Nowadays, if you were to see him with his neighbor’s children cuddled up
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