Episode 126: The Immeasurable Value of a Consistent Adult in a Child's Life
The Forgotten Podcast
The Forgotten Initiative
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
It’s not uncommon for us to talk about the unique balance of brokenness and beauty in foster care. In this episode, I am joined by someone who has experienced the good, the bad, and the ugly of the foster care system. Darren Morris is a father and husband, a store manager of a Starbucks, small business owner, and founder of a soon-to-be nonprofit, A Foster’s Hope. He entered the foster care system at the age of four and was eventually adopted eight years later into a family that now has 17 kids. (You read that right! 17!) In this honest conversation, Darren shares the impact of being a young kid bouncing around in the system, how his foster care experience has shaped who he is today, the value of mentors in his life, the redemption he’s seen in his story, and how he’s navigated trauma and overwhelming emotions.
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| 0:00.0 | Meeting you right where you are on your foster care journey, this is The Forgotten podcast. |
| 0:09.8 | Success isn't always, hey, I'm a millionaire. Success is I'm healthy, mentally, spiritually, emotionally. |
| 0:19.7 | I can provide for myself. I can provide for a family. I can create |
| 0:23.9 | happiness. I can believe that I can have a home that feels like a home. |
| 0:35.2 | Hey, it's Jamie Cabe. Welcome back to another episode of The Forgotten podcast. I am so glad you are here with me today. Here at the Forgotten Initiative, we exist to see people everywhere supporting the foster care community and experiencing Jesus together. Primarily, we do this by equipping people just like you to launch and |
| 0:57.2 | lead thriving foster care ministries right where they live. And we are actually celebrating quite a |
| 1:04.1 | few new ministries right now. We have a new TFI ministry in Green County, Missouri. We have one in Harford County, Maryland, |
| 1:13.7 | and a brand new leader in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Isn't that incredible? This is a step you |
| 1:21.2 | also can take. If you want to learn more about stepping into the advocate role, you can learn |
| 1:26.8 | all about it at the forgotten initiative.org |
| 1:30.1 | slash advocate. |
| 1:32.5 | Okay, on today's episode, we have an honest and open conversation with Darren Morris. |
| 1:38.9 | Darren is a great guy with a powerful story. |
| 1:42.8 | He is also a husband, father, former foster youth, founder of a soon-to-be |
| 1:49.2 | nonprofit called a Foster's Hope, and he is a small business owner. In addition to all of this, |
| 1:56.0 | Darren began a difficult foster care journey at the age of four and was adopted eight years later into a family |
| 2:02.7 | of, listen to this, 17 kids. Darren shares about his foster care journey, the redemption he's seen |
| 2:10.7 | in his story, why getting involved in foster care is bigger than being a foster or adoptive |
| 2:16.5 | parent, and more. I am very honored to have |
| 2:21.0 | Darren here and I know it will be an encouragement to your heart today. So let's get to it. Here is my |
| 2:27.0 | conversation with Darren Morris. Well, welcome, Darren. I am so excited to talk with you and to get to know you better and to have our listeners hear from you. |
| 2:41.9 | And it is just always a huge privilege for me to talk with people like you who have personally walked through foster care and walked this journey. |
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