Episode 143: Following the Passion in Your Heart
The Forgotten Podcast
The Forgotten Initiative
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
For so many in the foster care community, the passion for foster care or adoption started through awareness at an early age. This is the story for Jessie Barnes. While other teenagers were searching for music videos, she was searching for adoption stories and begging her parents to consider adoption, leading her mom to suggest she take licensing classes (as a high schooler!) to learn about foster care as well. When Jessie grew up and had a family of her own, she became a foster parent herself, and is now a TFI Advocate launching a foster care ministry in Dubuque, Iowa.
In today’s episode, Jessie shares how God placed the passion for foster care in her heart, how her involvement has shifted with each season of life, her journey of battling feelings of inadequacy, what her experience has been like in partnering with TFI, and how she is learning to live with God-confidence. Jessie has such a beautiful heart for this work, and you don’t want to miss this one!
(P.S. Applications to become a TFI Advocate are officially OPEN in the month of April! Apply today!)
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| 0:00.0 | meeting you right where you are on your foster care journey this is the forgotten podcast i somehow discovered |
| 0:11.0 | that you could search on the internet for kids that were waiting for homes which was really dangerous for me |
| 0:17.6 | because i would do it all the time and I would scroll through these pictures and just |
| 0:22.3 | oh it was just killer because I was not old enough to adopt myself at that point and so I would |
| 0:29.5 | take those pictures to my parents and be like look at these kids they need a home can we please |
| 0:34.4 | adopt will you please please consider? And my family never did |
| 0:39.1 | adopt, but it was always something I was interested in. |
| 0:46.6 | Hey friends, welcome back to the Forgotten Podcast. I'm your host, Jamie Cabe, and I am so very happy |
| 0:53.6 | you're here. I want you to know that wherever you are |
| 0:57.3 | in your foster care journey, this is the place for you. We are here for you. We support you. We are so |
| 1:03.9 | happy to have you. Now, I am really excited today because applications are open this month to become a |
| 1:10.6 | TFI advocate. |
| 1:12.3 | This only happens twice a year, which makes it super special to see people all across the |
| 1:18.0 | nation step out in faith and apply. I'm going to share more about this at the end of today's |
| 1:22.9 | episode, but I wanted you to know how very excited I am. Now, speaking of excitement, I have a great episode |
| 1:30.7 | for you today. We get to talk with Jesse Barnes. Jesse had a passion for adoption and then |
| 1:38.1 | foster care since she's been in middle school. As she started her own family, they became foster |
| 1:42.9 | parents, and now she is a TFI advocate. |
| 1:46.2 | She's launching a foster care ministry in northeast Iowa. |
| 1:50.2 | We talk about how God placed this passion in her heart, how she has battled feelings of inadequacy, which we all do, |
| 1:58.5 | and what it's been like to walk through the process of becoming a TFI advocate. |
| 2:03.7 | I absolutely loved my conversation with her. I know you're going to too. So let's jump in, |
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