Episode 13: Trusting God's Plan for Your Foster Care Journey
The Forgotten Podcast
The Forgotten Initiative
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2016
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Angie Ringger is a foster parent in Phoenix, Arizona. She and her husband, Mike, have fostered 11 children and have a compelling story about trusting in God’s plan and direction for life and growing in faith through the journey of foster care. Whether you currently foster, are considering becoming a foster parent or even if you’re sure fostering is not God’s plan for you, Angie’s story will increase your trust that God knows what He’s doing in your life!
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to The Forgotten Podcast, bringing voice to the foster care community. |
| 0:11.6 | So many times as Christians, we think we're going to pull up and we're going to study and we're going to disciple one another and we're going to take care of our families and |
| 0:21.4 | we're going to do really great job discipling our kids. And I think sometimes, I'm just going to say |
| 0:28.7 | it boldly, I think God wants more. I think God wants us to experience more of him. |
| 0:37.1 | Hey, it's Jamie Cabe. Welcome back to the Forgotten podcast. You are listening to the very last |
| 0:43.2 | episode of season one. So this is episode 12 of season one. And I am really excited to start |
| 0:50.5 | season two next time. In season two, you're going to notice a few different things. |
| 0:54.9 | Well, mainly the music. You're going to notice some brand new music that we just had |
| 0:58.8 | created for us for this podcast. You know, when you first start, you think you want to go one way |
| 1:04.7 | and then you learn as you go and that's kind of what's happened for us. So I am excited to |
| 1:10.3 | start a fresh one more time. But this first season has been such |
| 1:14.4 | a special time, a lot of learning, a lot of great guests that if you haven't heard all of them, |
| 1:21.2 | you know, go back and listen. We've talked to foster parents. We've talked to a gal who grew up |
| 1:25.6 | in foster care and she's an adult now and tells us of her story. |
| 1:29.5 | That was Nicole Argo, Part 1 and Part 2. |
| 1:32.2 | We talked to my parents, to my dad, Gary Ringer, who talked about his journey to ministry to Lifesong, which is the parent ministry of the forgotten initiative. |
| 1:41.1 | We also talked to my mom, Marla, about grandparenting kids who've come into your |
| 1:45.1 | home through adoption or foster care. We've talked to ministry leaders. You know, I mean, there's just |
| 1:49.5 | been a lot of great content this first season. And you have been listening, which I'm so |
| 1:55.2 | thankful for. Out of the 50 states, 44 state, this podcast has been heard in, and in five countries. We've had over 5,600 |
| 2:03.6 | listens. And so that means every episode, we're getting about 500 or more listens. In fact, |
| 2:10.3 | in August, we had about 1,000 downloads to the podcast. And in September, we had 1,300. So it's |
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