There is a great need for foster families, especially after the pandemic when domestic violence and substance abuse increased. This week, we asked Cameron and Shanni Pacheco, church planters and student vocational ministers in the San Diego area, to share their recent journey through the system with us. While not everyone is called to...
3 Ways I’m Turning Into My Mother (And It’s Not So Bad)
It might sneak up on you or be slow to develop, but there is one day in every mom's life when she realizes that she is becoming her mother. Whether you find yourself using a phrase from your childhood, or mimicking the way she made the bed, you realize—for better or worse—you are shaped...
8th Grade and the Acid Wash Jeans
Brad Paisley’s classic song “Letter to Me” tells a story of a man listing everything he wish he could have told “his self at 17.” Have you ever thought about what you would say if you could talk to your middle school self? This week, Ginger Matthews, a member of our Parenting Pathway Team,...
Is Being a “Mom Influencer” Worth It?
“There is nothing like being encouraged and affirmed as a mom, am I right? My love language is affirmation, so it is very easy for me to flock to anyone who will pay me a compliment. When I began my blog and shop where I create Bible content for preschoolers at home, I decided that...
Be In The Moment
Here are three easy ways to make sure you are making room for those special and meaningful moments in your family Christmas. ...
Our Lives Are Changed by Our Foster Care Journey
May is National Foster Care Month! We want to introduce you to Paula Bohlinger and her family. She and her husband, Tyson, have two beautiful little girls, and three years ago, they opened their home to a big bubbly bundle of joy. Their foster son entered their home when he was only two weeks...
Mom . . . Where Does Your Help Come From?
How often have you fallen into the mom-comparison trap? Are you judging your own mom cred? Do you look across the street and see the mom of four doing creative art projects with her perfectly clean and dressed children, while you look around and realize it's almost noon and your two kids are still...
Boy Mom: Connecting With Your Boys
How many times have you looked at your son all sweaty and dirty and thought that you had absolutely nothing in common with this creature? This week, Katie Hayes, boy mom to two active and energetic boys, shares with us insights from her own experience learning to connect with her boys. It is never...
See the World Through a Different Lens
April is National Autism Awareness Month, something near to the hearts of so many families we know. If you are not directly impacted by autism in your family, you probably know another family raising a child or loving an adult on the spectrum. Raising a child with autism can be an isolating, frustrating, and...
The Blessing of Good Grieving
We are all losing something these days. You might be telling yourself, you are fine, you just need to get through. But are you? In this Parenting Pathway podcast, we will discuss what grief looks like and how we can understand that there is healing and closure on the other side....
Serving and Growing TOGETHER as a Family
Once upon a time, there was a family—a mom, dad and three precious children, who lived in a beautiful house in the suburbs of North Dallas. Life was fairly normal for this family of five, until one day during dinner, the father shared a passage from the Bible in 2 Corinthians 5:18-21 with his...
This Is an Amazing Opportunity
It seems counter intuitive to look at this time in history as an opportunity. But why not take the challenge to change the view of all that is going on in the world under a different lens. What if you were to step back and instead of focusing on the limitation you and...