Charonne and Kevin Ganiere never really pictured themselves as foster parents. They’d always talked about adopting, maybe when their two small sons were older. But they couldn’t envision bringing children into their lives, loving them as their own and then letting them go — back to their biological parents or an adoptive family. It just seemed too painful.
That was then. Today, the Ganieres are parents to five children younger than 10, including three toddlers welcomed through the local foster care system, with no guarantees that they will be able to adopt them.
Devout Christians, the Germantown couple see their change of heart as divinely inspired. Now they’ve launched a fledgling nonprofit aimed at encouraging more Christians to open their hearts and homes to children in temporary need of families and helping churches support their members who do so.