Inside: Reflecting on Our Week at the 61st General Council (GC25)
Aug 26, 2025 5:16 pm
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Here's my weekly update for August 26th, 2025...
🗒️ Managing Grief and Loss in Foster Care
Foster care is a calling filled with love, compassion, and hope—but it also comes with a heavy emotional reality.
For children entering the system, foster parents, and even biological families, grief and loss are common experiences.
Understanding and managing these feelings is essential for the emotional well-being of everyone involved.
Understanding Grief in Foster Care […]
🗒️ The Honest Path: Understanding Why Children in Foster Care Tell Lies
If you’ve been a foster parent for more than a week, you’ve likely heard a lie.
Sometimes it’s small—like insisting they brushed their teeth when they didn’t.
Other times it’s big—denying something you know happened or creating a story that feels completely fabricated.
Lying can be one of the most frustrating behaviors to handle as […]
🗒️ Reflecting on Our Week at the 61st General Council (GC25)
Last week was nothing short of remarkable.
From August 4–8, the Assemblies of God’s 61st General Council convened at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida—a biennial gathering drawing over 20,000 pastors, church leaders, missionaries, and laypersons for spiritual renewal, fellowship, and impactful ministry action (AG News, TradeShowz).
Exhibiting with COMPACT Family Services & […]
🗒️ The Power of Predictability in a Healing Home
A guide for foster and adoptive families When children enter foster care or adoption, they often arrive from a world that felt unpredictable, unsafe, and chaotic.
This instability can leave deep emotional marks, shaping how they respond to people, places, and situations.
In a healing home, one of the most powerful tools you can offer […]
🗒️ Why Safety Plans Are Essential in Foster and Adoptive Homes
Opening your home to foster or adoptive children is a profound act of love and faith.
It also comes with unique responsibilities, especially when it comes to safety.
Every child who enters care carries their own story—sometimes with histories of trauma, neglect, or abuse.
While children are never defined by their past, those experiences can […]
Enjoy,
Chaplain Ted Stackpole