AGAPE of Central AL holds 3rd Annual Connecting Hearts Event

It was a night to come out and show support for the many children in need of forever homes.

“There are about 5 thousand children in foster care in Alabama and we’re a small agency trying to help reduce that big number. Sometimes it’s trying to help children get home to their families, sometimes its our foster families adopting those children. Regardless, we want to see permanency in a forever home for those children,” said Steve Duer with AGAPE.

To help support the cause, special guests Jay and Katherine Wolf were also there.
Katherine had a massive brain stem stroke at age 26.
She and her husband wrote a book on the process of healing called, “Hope Heals.”
They say their message is for everyone to hear, no matter their pain.

“We are doing in some ways very different things than AGAPE, which is focused on foster care and adoption and helping with unplanned pregnancy. But at the end of the day, we’re all about entering into people’s pain, entering into a life that looks like nothing we thought it would look like. Bridging into hope and healing,” said Jay Wolf.

And as they live out their story, they are reaching out to others and offering hope.

“I think that God didn’t make a mistake in any of our stories… in my story or any of these children or women who find them unexpectedly pregnant. God doesn’t make mistakes, ever. He is always at work and even in our nightmares, He’s there, working for our benefit,” said Katherine.

…And the benefit for all children in need.

“When a judge says a child can go to a forever home, it’s special. We celebrate it,” said AGAPE supporter Wes Gunn.

For more information on AGAPE, click here.

For more information on Jay and Katherine Wolf’s “Hope Heals” ministry, click here.