What if I said yes?I've noticed over the last few months as I talked about our new season in foster care, the one of rest and no.I've caught myself saying, well I only have 3 kids in my home and each one of them belongs to me.As those three don't matter or qualify.I know they do so please hear my heart, but as I say those words shame rushes in. The...
If you have seen me speak or heard me share my story you know I am a survivor of child abuse but I want you to hear a new piece of my story.I want you to hear how the community, my family allowed the abuse to continue and how it has actually been easier to forgive my actual abuser then the people that turned their backs on my truth.Until I was 16 I...
My name is Jason VanDusen, the honored husband of Bonnie VanDusen, founder and operator of Geronimo-Project. I am participating on the front lines this month along side my wife Bonnie and shedding light from another angle on foster care and adoption. This is the dad's angle, the Father's plan and a family's purpose for something greater than we can...
Telling people who I am has always been a weird thing for me.I've always felt like I needed to give you the good sales pitch, hiding the women, the lemon under the hood.Reading you and telling you about the things that would connect you and me.It's part of my survival story.Knowing when I walk into a room being the person you want me to be instead ...
About a year ago as my husband and I sat in church listening to a great message the fire alarm went off in the main sanctuary. My husband and I turned to each other and grinned from ear to ear. We both knew it was a false alarm you could say we had that parent instinct kick in. As our pastor stood at the alter and joked about how one of those wild ...