Episode 131: Scarred Hands: How Ministry Through Foster Care Changes Us
The Forgotten Podcast
The Forgotten Initiative
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
This episode honestly hit me hard. I was an emotional wreck by the end! If you’ve ever wondered how foster care would affect your biological children, if you are feeling the weight of it all right now, or if you grew up in a family that did foster care, this episode is for you.
James Drayer was just four years old when his parents became houseparents at Gateway Woods, a ministry that offers Christ-centered social services in northeast Indiana, including Residential Childcare, On-Grounds Schooling, Foster Care, Gateway Farms, Adoption, and the LARC Program.
In this heartfelt conversation, James shares with us what it was like to grow up helping kids with trauma, the impact that experience has had on him throughout his life, and how God transformed his heart to follow in his parents footsteps. I’m praying you will feel seen, and refreshed, as you listen!
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| 0:00.0 | meeting you right where you are on your foster care journey this is the forgotten podcast i think back to |
| 0:09.5 | christ of how he handled things of with the ten lepers last time i checked christ is all knowing christ knew |
| 0:15.2 | the future but when those ten lepers came and asked christ healed all ten of them he knew that only one |
| 0:19.8 | was going to return he knew that only one was going to return. He knew |
| 0:21.4 | that only one was going to be grateful that's recorded, but he still chose to heal all 10. |
| 0:32.4 | Hello and welcome back to the Forgotten podcast. I'm your host, Jamie Cave, and it is so good to have you here. |
| 0:39.9 | If you are part of the foster care community, passionate about serving or simply interested in learning more, this podcast is for you. |
| 0:48.9 | First off, I want to remind you that applications to become a TFI advocate are open, but they won't be for long. |
| 0:55.7 | Right now, we have TFI advocates across the country in nearly 30 states, each of them working |
| 1:01.6 | hard to equip local churches to meet the needs in the foster care community right where they |
| 1:06.5 | live. |
| 1:07.4 | This is why our team exists to help people just like you launch and lead thriving foster care |
| 1:14.3 | ministries because we want to see people everywhere supporting the foster care community and experiencing |
| 1:20.5 | Jesus together. I'd like to encourage you to take this step too. Now all the details are at tfiadvocate.org and applications will only be |
| 1:30.1 | open through the end of this month through the end of October. I hope we'll be able to partner |
| 1:35.3 | with you. Today's episode honestly hit me hard. I was kind of an emotional wreck by the end. I'm talking |
| 1:43.8 | with a great young man and good friend to our family named James Dreher. |
| 1:48.5 | So James shares his experience of growing up while his parents worked as house parents at a ministry called Gateway Woods. |
| 1:55.3 | The impact on James was both beautiful and painful, but most importantly filled with hope and redemption. |
| 2:03.0 | If you've ever wondered if foster care will change your family or your kids, it will. |
| 2:07.5 | Let me just tell you that. |
| 2:08.6 | It will. |
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