Episode 145: A Lasting Impact: From the Perspective of a Foster Parent

The Forgotten Podcast

The Forgotten Initiative

Christian, Family, Kids & Family, Adoption, Fostercare

4.9 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Did you know that May is National Foster Care Awareness Month? To help raise awareness of this community that we love so dearly, things are looking a little different this month on the podcast. Every week this month, we are highlighting stories from each perspective of the foster care community—agency workers, foster parents, vulnerable adults, and children—because every member of the foster care community matters and has a story to tell.

In this episode, I’m talking with Jessica Mathisen. In addition to being a foster parent, she is an author and the Executive Director of Restoration Women, an organization that equips women in Athens, GA with life and job skills to empower them to walk in freedom and bring restoration to their homes and community. Today, Jessica openly shares about her fostering journey, how she’s learned to navigate fear and insecurity, how she finds the strength to face each day as a foster parent, the immeasurable value she has found in community, and more. I loved this episode and hope it’s an encouragement to you!

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0:00.0	Meeting you right where you are on your foster care journey, this is The Forgotten Podcast.
0:09.2	It was kind of like we have empty rooms and the Lord's put the desire there, so why would we just kind of keep waiting until the right time?
0:22.7	Hello and welcome back to the forgotten podcast.
0:25.7	I'm your host, Jamie Cave, and I am so very excited to have you with me here today.
0:32.3	May is National Foster Care Month, so we're going to do things a little bit differently
0:36.8	on the podcast. Every week
0:39.3	this month, we are highlighting stories from each perspective of the foster care community,
0:44.7	agency workers, foster parents, vulnerable adults, and children. Every member of the foster care
0:51.3	community matters, and everyone has a story to tell. Here at TFI, we are
0:57.3	chasing after our vision of helping people everywhere supporting the foster care community
1:02.4	and experiencing Jesus together. One of the main ways we do this is by helping you launch and lead
1:09.8	a thriving foster care ministry right where you live.
1:13.5	These ministries connect churches and agencies so that the church can help meet physical, relational,
1:20.8	and spiritual needs of the foster care community, and the foster care community can give
1:26.3	perspective and opportunities to serve to the church.
1:30.3	We need each other. I would love for you to join us on this mission. Would you join our team of podcast listeners who are also passionate about this vision?
1:43.5	Team 310 is a group of partners that give to TFI to help us
1:48.6	continue on mission. Together, we can make a big difference in the foster care community. Your gift of
1:56.9	$10, $25, or $100 makes a huge impact. You can learn more and join today at the forgotten
2:04.5	initiative.org slash team 310. That's the forgotten initiative.org slash team 310.
2:14.4	Thank you again for joining me and let's go now to today's episode, where we will be learning
2:19.6	about the perspective of the foster parent from Jessica Matheson.
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