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A Radical Faith - Andrea Young's Story :: [Episode 153]

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StoryTellers Live

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9611 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Andrea Young from Atlanta GA shares her story of adopting two children from two different countries. She gently reminds us of the importance of radical faith and that when things don't make sense, they sometimes end up the most beautiful.

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was each time we took a step of radical faith, it meant giving up some things but trusting him to provide.

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And I would say 100% of the time, it looked like meeting other people.

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Welcome to the Storytellers Live podcast where everyday women share stories of hope.

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I'm Robin and I am here with Lindy and Katie and we are your podcast host.

0:28.1

And if you have been a listener for a long time, you may have noticed our beginning has changed.

0:32.3

We are going to try something new and we're going to give you a little snippet of our story at the beginning so that you

0:38.0

know which story is coming up and what it's about. So we hope that you liked it today. And that was

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Andrea Young, our storyteller for today. And Andrea lives in Atlanta. And I'm going to give you a little

0:47.7

background on her because I followed her blog back in the days of blogging when they were getting ready to adopt their first

0:55.5

child. And then you will hear in her story. They now have six children, four biological,

1:02.4

two adopted from two different countries. And I really got to know her because they ran,

1:07.5

she and friends ran an adoption conference for adopted moms called Created for Care.

1:12.5

And so if any of you listening are adoption women, you know about this. I attended back in

1:17.8

the early days when we brought our daughter home from China. And so I followed Andrea's story

1:22.1

for a very long time. So when I reached out to her to share, I was so excited that she said yes, because Katie is going to tell you they have lived an incredible life.

1:31.6

I mean, I tell you, one of the things that I love is when God layers messages on us.

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Last week, we're coming off of Sophie Hudson, who really challenged us to not disqualify ourselves and dismiss ourselves for work in God's kingdom. Today, Andrea challenges

1:47.0

us to take a step of radical faith. Whatever God is calling you to do, maybe it's not adoption,

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maybe it's something else that God is really laying something on your heart to take a step of

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radical faith. Listen to her story, listen to the Holy Spirit, and see what God is calling

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you to do. And speaking of radical faith, you will hear Andrea talk about God showing up in the

2:07.0

details of her life, which is exactly what our Bible study is called when God shows up. You can find

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