September 2023 Volume 38, Issue 2
Life News
Promoting the sanctity of life Inside this issue
Welcome Our lead article in this Life News focuses on foster care. In both adoption and
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fostering settings, adults offer a home and loving care to children in need with
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whom they are often not biologically related. When children are offered this
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care, it mirrors the adoption God extends to us in baptism, remembering that we ourselves are members of His family, not by nature but by grace. I hope and
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pray that you find this edition edifying.
Upcoming events.................8
Joseph Theodorsen - Chair, Lutherans for Life.
Thank you!........................…..9 Statement from the LCA....9 Invitation - Adelaide......…10
Foster parenting - an interview
Miscarriage and stillbirth
The following article is a partial transcript from
reflection………………………..10
an interview conducted on the new Lutheran
Foetal models available for
podcast ‘Here She Stands’. In this podcast epi-
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sode, printed here and edited with permission, Lexy Bourne and Sonja van Rossen interview
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Hannah* on the topic of Foster Parenting. Han-
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nah lives in South Australia and is married to
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Michael. They have 4 children, and she is also
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an emergency nurse.
Lutherans for Life
What sort of vetting and approval is required for foster parenting in South Australia?
Est. in 1987 Sponsored by the Lutheran Church of
We found it fairly streamlined. We basically chose an agency to go through and we chose Lutheran Care, seeing as we already go to the Lutheran Church. And we went to an information night, and from there we just signed up to start the process. It looks like a lot of interviews, so someone will come to your house and they talk to you a lot about your childhood and go through any trauma or grief that you've gone through to see how you managed that.
* Hannah’s full name is not being shared for their family’s privacy.
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