Flourishing Hope

A 30-DAY DEVOTIONAL FOR PREGNANT WOMEN IN UNEXPECTED PLACES

LEAH OUTTEN | KATIE MCCOY

Finding encouragement and hope through God's love and faithfulness.

“Katie and Leah's willingness to witness to God’s strength and plans from their stories will be multiplied like the child who offered his loaves and fishes to so many younger women walking their hard path.”

PASTOR HOWARD COLE

Aspen Grove Church

“Their vulnerability plus their genuine desire to encourage birth moms makes them the perfect team to collaborate on this much-needed resource. Thankful for these two women who didn't just say, 'I wish we had this...' but they're actually doing it.”

LAURA BRUDER

Former Executive Director at BraveLove

Flourishing Hope

Discovering an unexpected pregnancy can make a woman feel like her world is on fire...

Uncertain plans. Relationship tensions. Loneliness. Regret. Fear. Shame.

Filled with hope for the future, this 30-day devotional assures women facing unexpected pregnancies that the Lord is still near. Though this new season may feel devastating initially, God will bring growth and beauty once more, much like the fireweed flower after a forest fire.

Drawing from their own experiences, Katie and Leah share stories of hope and resilience, aiming to inspire others with the message that God's love and faithfulness are always present. Each day has a scripture to meditate on, an encouraging message, and prompts to write what's on her heart. This devotional is ideal for personal reading or as a thoughtful gift for a pregnant mom who could use encouragement!

LEAH OUTTEN

AUTHOR | SPEAKER

Leah is a birth mother in a fully open adoption and a mother of five that she parents with her husband. She has been writing, speaking, and serving the adoption community since 2004. Her passion for helping others blossoms from the light found within the dark trenches of her life and the support surrounding her. Sharing vulnerably about the beauty and aches of a birth mother, she aims to inspire hope and show how open adoption can be done well. Leah’s writing and story have been featured on national platforms including Focus On The Family, Epoch Times, LiveAction, and HuffPost.

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KATIE MCCOY

AUTHOR | SPEAKER

Katie is a birth mother who has placed two children for adoption. Her oldest is 17 and her youngest is 14. She has a very open adoption with them both and has enjoyed watching them flourish throughout the years. She is married and is parenting a newborn daughter. While her story hasn’t always felt hopeful, she looks back on the countless goodness and grace that God has bestowed on her life. He truly has used her story to speak to mothers of all walks. She has an organization with another birth mother called The Table DFW that supports men and women who have placed a child(ren) for adoption through support groups and in-person events. Katie’s story has been featured on podcasts like Birth Mothers Amplified and The Open Adoption Project, featured on BraveLove’s storytelling platforms, and in self-written articles on Adoption.com. Along with being a birth mother, Katie was adopted as a child and has had an open adoption with her biological family for 14 years now.

THE TABLE DFW | INSTAGRAM