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Second Father: A Guide for Foster, Adoptive, and Spiritual Fathers
The measure of your love isn’t how loudly you declare it but how long you remain when it’s hard.
You’re not holding a book that came out of calm. You’re holding something that grew out of ache, questions, and the kinds of prayers that sometimes start as sighs. I needed a place to wrestle with everything I’d seen—love, loss, adoption, faith, fatherhood, and fear. I realized there were men like me—men who had stepped into stories they hadn’t started, men who had said yes to raising someone else’s child, to mentoring someone else’s son, or to fathering when it wasn’t required but was deeply needed. The idea of second fathers came from there—those who step in when another steps out.
Praise for Second
Second Father reminds us that God has always used ordinary men to do extraordinary things for the sake of children and families. This is a timely and much-needed encouragement for every man learning to love and lead and live as a foster or adoptive dad. —Jason Johnson, Christian Alliance for Orphans.
You’re not holding a book that came out of calm. You’re holding something that grew out of ache, questions, and the kinds of prayers that sometimes start as sighs. I needed a place to wrestle with everything I’d seen—love, loss, adoption, faith, fatherhood, and fear. I realized there were men like me—men who had stepped into stories they hadn’t started, men who had said yes to raising someone else’s child, to mentoring someone else’s son, or to fathering when it wasn’t required but was deeply needed. The idea of second fathers came from there—those who step in when another steps out.
Praise for Second
Second Father reminds us that God has always used ordinary men to do extraordinary things for the sake of children and families. This is a timely and much-needed encouragement for every man learning to love and lead and live as a foster or adoptive dad. —Jason Johnson, Christian Alliance for Orphans.
169 pages, Paperback
Published August 26, 2026
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