Christy Irwin is sounding an alarm.

We need more believers in Christ to step up and join her as foster parents.

I have a job to do, and I have a responsibility.

And there are kids that are counting on me, and they're counting on you, and they're counting on the body of Christ.

Their lives, literally and figuratively, their lives depend on what we do

and what we say. And if we're not willing to step up, some of them are going to lose their lives.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss-Walkalmuth, author of Lies Women Believe for May 11, 2018.

If you don't want to consider being a foster parent, then don't listen to today's program. All week, Nancy's been talking

with Christy Irwin about the calling the Lord has placed on her life as a foster mom. Let's pick

the conversation back up. Well, this has been an amazing conversation with Christy Irwin

over the last several days. And Christy and her husband, Jeff, and their children have been involved for 25 years now in foster care, adoption.

There's a picture of their family on Reviverheart's.com.

If you want to go and see the family that God has blessed them with. And now they're starting to be mates and the

starting of the next generation. How many grandchildren now? Two. Two. And you'll be glad to

show us a picture of your grandchildren too. Absolutely. And could you have imagined 25 years ago

what your family would look like today? No. Quite honestly, I could not have imagined being an older mother

with all the young little 20-something mothers, and I have a third grader, and I'm a grandmother.

So God's economy is different than ours, and I love that. Love it. And in the process,

there have been a lot of sacrifices. You and your husband have taken in lots of little ones who

needed a place for temporary care,

interim care in most cases, but in two cases you ended up adopting those children.

Why have the sacrifices?

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