When Kimberly Henkel and her husband, Greg, first welcomed a baby boy into their home through fostering, they realized in a new way that children are a gift.

“He wasn’t ours, but what we realized is that no child is truly ours,” she told OSV News. “Whether we give birth to this child, whether we foster this child, whether we adopt this child, we get the privilege of taking care of this child and loving this child … but ultimately, these children — all of them — belong to God.”

Today, the Henkels are the founders of Springs of Love, a ministry dedicated to raising up more Catholic foster and adoptive families and to supporting those involved through educational programming, small groups and parish care teams. Kimberly, who also serves as executive director, said their nonprofit began in 2

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