The believer’s heart for the fatherless
Rev. Joseph Holstege shares his family's personal journey toward adoption, recounting how infertility led him and his wife to prayerfully consider adoption as God's calling. Through reflection on his experience, Holstege connects the doctrine of adoption in the gospel to the practical reality of adopting children, demonstrating how theological understanding transformed his initial resistance into heartfelt embrace of God's sovereign providence in family building.
Rev. Joseph Holstege and his wife Lisa are adoptive parents, and he serves as pastor of First PRC in Grand Rapids, Michigan We were cruising down the interstate on a Spring break getaway for two. Our little one-year-old boy was safely in the care of grandma. There was nothing but the open road, and time to talk. I was looking out the window as my wife began, carefully, to bring up an idea that had been germinating in her mind for some time. Though we recently experienced the joys and fatigue...
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