An Open Letter to Fathers in the Field: I want to thank from deep within my heart the Fathers in the Field family, Terry and Kristie Leach and John Cunningham and his wife, Katharine, for welcoming my family into your lives. I am overwhelmed with emotion and strengthened in my faith by your outpouring of more…
There was talk of adopting a child early in their marriage, but Veniece Lindemulder and her husband never pursued it. How they became parents of a baby boy started with a phone call from a family friend. The friend knew a young, unmarried girl pregnant with her second child and incapable of raising another one. more…
As a family physician, it’s not uncommon for Dr. Larry Sonnenberg to treat members of the same family in all ages and stages of life at The Bozeman Clinic. About seven years ago, Larry treated the grandson of patient, a toddler named Jonathan, with croup. The respiratory problem the boy faced then is nothing like more…
Daphne Steed remembers back to a time when her son, Taylor, lit up a room. “Taylor was a happy, joyful baby,” she recalls. “Now he’s quiet and reserved. I don’t think he knows yet what is hurting him,” Daphne says. But this single mom is confident that Taylor’s pain is rooted in a wound left more…
You never know when you are going to walk through a door and meet a person on the other side who will change your life forever. For Damian Lopez, it happened the day he walked through the door at The River of Life Church in Deming, NM and met Pastor Cesar Chavez (pictured together in more…
Susan seemed to have the life many of the women in her church longed for. Married young to a husband who was well-respected in the congregation, she had five healthy children and the opportunity to stay home and homeschool them. From all outward appearances, Susan was the type of woman that people in the church more…
For all of us who have lived any part of our lives absent an earthly father, admitting the effects of abandonment and dealing with those emotions is difficult. So, sharing my Healing Journey story with you is not easy. But, it’s important. I hope that by telling my story, it may trigger someone else’s journey. more…
This story begins in a small town in the Central Finger Lakes Region of New York, commonly called Wine Country. It is a little piece of heaven to me, abounding with hunting and fishing of all types. The hunt for the wild turkey is my favorite. What a privilege it is to share how God more…
She will never forget that phone call. “Suzanne, this is the school principal.” “Oh no, what now?” Suzanne thought. What she heard next was the wake-up call no parent wants to get. “Your son is suicidal. He needs help. Now.” Suzanne wasted no time getting her son to a therapist who specialized in teen depression. more…
“God, why did You spare me?” That’s a question that Terry Leach looks forward to asking his Creator and Savior one day. But the answer, at least in part, may be unveiling itself to Terry right now as he reaches out to troubled, hurting boys in Virginia. “I could so easily have been one of more…
