Can you imagine taking in foster kids who are terminally ill? We’ll tell you about a Wisconsin couple that has time and time again.
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Cori Salchert calls the home she shares with her husband, Mark, a “house of hope.” A former perinatal bereavement nurse with eight biological children, Salchert began adopting what she calls “hospice babies” —babies with life-limiting or terminal diagnoses — in 2012.
Salchert says these babies come from families who find it difficult to deal with the condition their child was born with. Many step away because they can’t bear to witness the end of their child’s life.
The first of the Salcherts’ hospice babies, Emmalynn, lived for 50 days before dying while cradled in Cori’s arms. Since then, the Salcherts and their children have made it their mission to care for as many babies as they can.
Cori’s sister Amie contracted spinal meningitis when she was a child. After the high fevers from the infection destroyed quite a bit of her brain function she went to live in a children’s home for kids who were severely impaired.
When Amie was eleven, she wandered out of an unlocked door at the children’s home and drowned in a pond on a nearby golf course.
Cori says throughout her life she asked “Where was God when my sister needed Him most?”
But now Instead of asking God over and over why things had been the way they were, she laid down the hurt and disillusion before God and said, “Here, you take this and redeem it.”
And she says — He did.