Foster Dad: What Happens When an Empty Nest Gets Filled with Foster Kids

He thought his days of parenting were behind him. God had other plans.

Meet a fifty-something single man whose own daughter won’t return his calls. Just when he’s learning to live with the ache of estrangement, he does something no one expects: he signs up to be a foster dad.

What follows is a whirlwind of mismatched socks, broken curfews, late-night pizza runs, and lessons in patience he never signed up for. Along the way, he finds himself laughing at his own mistakes, crying over the kids he thought he was helping, and slowly realizing that God is using them to heal places in his heart he thought would never be whole again.

Foster Dad is more than just a story about foster care — it’s about redemption, second chances, and the unexpected ways God shows up when we open our homes (and our hearts) to others. Both hilarious and deeply moving, this first book in The Foster Dad Chronicles will leave you laughing through the tears — and believing that even in life’s messiest seasons, grace is big enough to write a brand-new chapter.