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🗓️ 25 September 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Guest Bio: Vickie and Victor are high school sweethearts, have been married for 39 years, have 4 married beautiful daughters, and have 9 adorable grandchildren. They have been ministry and business partners the entire 39 years—they are serial entrepreneurs with the desire to remind people, especially at-risk children, that “they are loved and not alone”.
Show Summary: Do you like the smell of lavender? Have you ever used lavender to calm you down in a state of unrest, stress, or anxiety? Today’s guests, Victor and Vickie Bennett, own a lavender farm in Michigan where their mission is to bring comfort to children in foster care, bring awareness to a faceless crisis, and to mobilize communities around those on the front lines of the rescue. Join hosts, Elisa Morgan and Eryn Adkins, during this conversation on God Hears Her as they talk with the Bennett’s about managing a business as a married couple and the mission of their lavender farm.
Notes and Quotes:
“There was a love for children right at the very beginning of our relationship.” —Vickie Bennett
“I didn’t realize that growing up being in charge of. . . little calves, that God was training me and this ministry to be looking out for kids, especially kids in trauma.” —Victor Bennett
“We’ve learned what each other’s strengths are, and we celebrate them.” —Victor Bennett
“Foster care is kind of a faceless crisis. . . , so because of that, it’s hard for people to rally around this crisis because everything is on the low-down. But there are over 440,000 kids in foster care in our country alone, right in our own communities. . . .” —Victor Bennett
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0:00.0 | There's over 440,000 kids in foster care in our country alone. |
0:05.0 | Yeah. |
0:06.0 | Right in our own communities, every community, every county, they are there and they need |
0:12.0 | people to be patient with them. |
0:15.0 | They need to understand they're coming from hurt places. |
0:18.0 | They're coming from brokenness. |
0:20.0 | And they are broken and they need lots of compassion. They're coming from brokenness, and they are broken, and they need |
0:22.6 | lots of compassion. They need lots of help. And lavender, like with Xander, it's a simple |
0:29.5 | tool God gave, a simple plant God gave. |
0:48.0 | You're listening to God Hears Her, a podcast for women where we explore the stunning truth that God hears you, he sees you, and he loves you because you are his. |
0:52.4 | Find out how these realities free you today on God Hears Her. |
0:56.5 | Welcome to God Hears Her. I'm Erin Atkins. |
1:00.2 | And I'm Lisa Morgan. Do you like the smell of lavender? |
1:07.2 | Did you know that smelling lavender can reduce anxiety by calming the body's fight or flight response? |
1:13.4 | Today we are talking with Victor and Vicki Bennett, the proud owners of a lavender farm in Michigan. While they use the lavender for body and culinary products, they also |
1:19.8 | discovered a unique need where lavender can help people dealing with trauma. We'll let the |
1:25.5 | Bennett's share their unique mission right after we hear how they met and |
1:29.6 | how they came together during this conversation on God hears her. |
1:35.6 | My dad was a pastor growing up and we had moved to Binghamton, New York, and that's where |
1:42.4 | I met Victor. I was 14 at the time. And I found this cute |
1:45.9 | little farm boy and kind of liked him. And my parents just absolutely loved him. I love the |
1:51.2 | twinkle in his eyes. You're sharing it. We won't tell how old he was at the time. He's a little |
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