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Here's my weekly update for July 6th, 2025...

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🗒️ Freedom Worth Celebrating: A 4th of July Reflection

Freedom Worth Celebrating: A 4th of July Reflection:

As fireworks fill the sky and families gather for backyard barbecues and hometown parades, the Fourth of July invites us to pause and celebrate something deeper than hot dogs and sparklers—it’s a day to honor freedom.

245+ Years of Freedom...

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🗒️ How Small Groups Can Wrap Around Foster Families

How Small Groups Can Wrap Around Foster Families:

Being the Church for Families on the Frontlines Foster families are on the frontlines of ministry—loving children from hard places, navigating court hearings and case plans, managing trauma-informed parenting, and juggling everyday family life.

While their calling is beautiful, it’s...

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🗒️ The Theology of Adoption: Becoming Sons and Daughters of God

The Theology of Adoption: Becoming Sons and Daughters of God:

In a world marked by broken relationships, the gospel offers one of its most profound and healing promises: adoption.

Not merely a metaphor, adoption is a central theme in Scripture that speaks to identity, belonging, and the heart of God....

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🗒️ Protecting Children in a Digital World: What Every Parent and Caregiver Needs to Know

Protecting Children in a Digital World: What Every Parent and Caregiver Needs to Know:

The internet is a powerful tool.

It helps kids learn, create, connect, and explore.

But like any tool, it can also cause harm when not used safely—especially for vulnerable children.

Whether you’re a parent, foster caregiver, grandparent, or ministry leader,...

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🗒️ Celebrating Redemption: National Reunification Month

Celebrating Redemption: National Reunification Month:

June is National Reunification Month—a time to honor the hard work of families who have overcome great challenges to be brought back together.

Across the country, courts, child welfare agencies, and community partners come together to celebrate stories of healing,...

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🗒️ Remembering Freedom, Reimagining Justice: Juneteenth and the Disproportionate Number of Black Children in Foster Care

Remembering Freedom, Reimagining Justice: Juneteenth and the Disproportionate Number of Black Children in Foster Care:

Every June 19, America pauses to honor Juneteenth, the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States.

It marks the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, finally received word—more than two years...

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Enjoy,

Chaplain Ted Stackpole