Caring for the Forgotten Generation
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Chaplain Bill Goodrich of God Cares Ministry describes the vibrant opportunity to befriend and share Christ with the elderly in your community. He shares his heart for this forgotten generation of precious people who deserve our love and attention.
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| 0:00.0 | Everybody around us this summer. |
| 0:02.0 | I say everybody, but our eyes were open to it in the last year that a lot of folks in |
| 0:07.3 | their 30s that are our age that we're seeing their marriages fall apart and it's |
| 0:11.8 | scared us. |
| 0:13.0 | After 11 years, Brett's marriage had grown stale. |
| 0:16.2 | He wanted something better for he and his wife. |
| 0:18.9 | That's when they found our podcast online and began listening almost every day. |
| 0:24.4 | It's on the families helped our marriage from the standpoint of opening our hearts to |
| 0:31.9 | see things from the other's perspective and to make sure that God is centered in our |
| 0:37.5 | marriage. |
| 0:38.6 | I'm Jim Dele. |
| 0:40.0 | Thanks to the generosity of friends like you, Brett's marriage is getting better. |
| 0:44.9 | Working together, we can give families hope. |
| 0:47.6 | Will you join our marriage building team? |
| 0:49.8 | Call 800 the letter A and the word family. |
| 0:52.9 | We're donating at focus on the family.com slash hope and your gift will be doubled. |
| 1:01.0 | We have seen, based on the principles that we teach for nursing home ministry, we have |
| 1:06.0 | seen about 85% of the residents take Jesus's hand for salvation and for strength to get |
| 1:12.8 | them through their days. |
| 1:15.6 | There's a mission field near you with lonely, often forgotten people and they're living |
| 1:20.2 | out their final days in a nursing home or a senior center. |
| 1:24.2 | They're longing to be loved. |
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