So I first will begin a few years back when my oldest daughter Madison asked me if we could foster kids like the Dubynas do. My first response as a human was no not right now. My second response as a christian was to tell Maddy to pray about it. As a 5 year old she seemed satisfied with that answer but I wasn't so sure about how I felt. So in the new year of 2009 we began to pray as a family during worship that God would give our family a way to outreach. Well about 10 months later Derek and I are sitting in sabbath school listening to one of our dear friends talk about her journey that god was leading her and Her family on. She mentioned that the Splatsin band here in Enderby was in need of Native homes to place children in, so for an instant you say mmmmm well I'm native and my kids are all native, we have a loving home filled with god so why not. Not to jump of track here but I've learned that the "little" voice in my head that I at times ignore is God speaking to me. SO i left it at that and never mentioned anything to my husband. Later that night he brought the story that Karla was telling up in conversation and before either one of us could grasp the fact we both said the exact same thing. Why Not??!! For that brief moment we new in our hearts that God was leading us right into Foster care. So of course you have your " i don't know about this " feeling, so we decided to go through the approval process and just leave it up to him. Well low and behold nothing, really nothing not a call for a kid for almost 2 months. Except the talk of this baby that was going to be born in February. So they asked us and we just kind of left it at we will see when February comes. I decide one day to stop into the Band office to say hey and that was it. God hit us right over the head when the social worker said "we need a decision by tomorrow at noon". Well that was a hard thing to swallow, here we are willing to do gods work and he puts it right in our faces and yet we second guess everything. I decided to sit down with Maddy once again and ask her how she felt about it, her first response was that she wasn't very interested because her younger sister was already annoying her. After a brief explanation as to why the mother could not take care of the baby which yes did include explaining addiction. She looked at me in the eye and said "mommy we have to take this baby and love it and teach it about Jesus' love". Well that was it right there, how could I ignore what God wanted our family to do and what a blessing that was. Here is my 6 year old reminding what faith is all about. It was truly one of those moments that you just could barely hold back the fountain of tears that we coming. So that is it, we have had the pleasure since the she was born to have miss Kimmy in our lives. She fits in this family like she's always been here and god has truly blessed us with her constant smiles and now giggles ever since. I just hope and pray that through my journey of getting to know god better that my family continues to be aware of his purpose for us........
