Of Capes and Combat Boots started in 2016 as a little blog with a big mission to encourage military families and to #changetheorphan story.  

Only somewhere along the way, as we started sharing the military and orphan story, God started rewriting OURS.

Because as He called our team to orphan hosting and international adoption and 11 deployments inside a 20-year military career, He also called us to start Bible studies and coach Odyssey of the Mind teams and to drive 15-passenger vans full of superheroes who didn’t share our last name. He called us to dive into this beautiful and sacred ministry of loving on our kids’ friends, and as He gave us the privilege of walking alongside friends and neighbors through triumph and tragedy, He reminded us that ministry isn’t an organization; it’s loving the person right in front of us.

Love is a verb, and when it comes to loving God and loving people, it sure doesn’t have a lane. 

Six years later, Of Capes and Combat Boots is as passionate as ever about holistic orphan care and still strives to encourage military families, mostly through the tales of our own utter failures. 

But more than that, we feel passionately about valuing EVERY image bearer of God, from the soldier in uniform to the superhero whose special needs are just superpowers in disguise, as precious, priceless, worthy ones of His. 

Welcome to our space. 

Grab a coffee (it’s Jesus’ best gift since grace), let down your hair (because ours has 97 percent not been washed for weeks) and forgive the penis jokes that will inevitably ensue when four small male humans are the means by which God sanctifies you in this life.