New Ministry Provides Support for Adoptive Families
The Holy Family Adoptive Ministry hosted its kick-off picnic May 21 at St Stephen Catholic Church.
It was shortly after he was adopted that 4-year-old Evan Ososkie questioned his new adoptive mom, Janis, about the difference in their skin colors. Janis Ososkie is white; her son is black. Using a comparison a child could comprehend, Ososkie turned over Evan's palm then placed her own palm next to his. "See, we're the same color," she said. "We're all the same color on the inside." To explain adoption, she tells Evan that he "grew up in mommy and daddy's hearts, not mommy's tummy." For now, Evan seems satisfied with that explanation. But there may come a time when he has more questions. That's one of the reasons Ososkie and fellow adoptive parent Pearl Chiarenza started the Holy Family Adoption Ministry at St. Stephen Catholic Church in …
