Episode 147: God’s Faithful Pursuit: From the Perspective of a Former Foster Child
The Forgotten Podcast
The Forgotten Initiative
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2022
⏱️ 49 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 am joined by Kristen Lucero, a former foster child who is now a licensed foster parent. By the time she was adopted at age 5, she had already lived in three different homes. Although Kristen remembers feeling grateful to be adopted, she found herself struggling with abandonment, self-worth, belonging, and identity until she was 22 years old. Today, Kristen shares with us the importance of recognizing that God is expressing His love for us through the people He has placed in our lives and the importance for parents to hold fast to their calling even when a child makes it difficult.
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| 0:00.0 | Meeting you right where you are on your foster care journey, this is The Forgotten Podcast. |
| 0:11.0 | This is the placement that the Lord has given me. He has placed me here as a mom, and I'm going to walk in that faithfully regardless of what is wanted or if it's reciprocated |
| 0:23.6 | or if it's, even if it's rejected. |
| 0:33.7 | Hello and welcome back to the Forgotten Podcast. |
| 0:36.7 | I'm your host, Jamie Cave, and I am so very excited to have you with me here today. May is National Foster Care Month, so we're going to do things a little bit differently on the podcast. Every week this month, we are highlighting stories from each perspective of the foster care community, |
| 0:55.3 | agency workers, foster parents, vulnerable adults, and children. Every member of the foster care |
| 1:01.9 | community matters, and everyone has a story to tell. Here at TFI, we are chasing after our |
| 1:09.0 | vision of helping people everywhere supporting the |
| 1:11.9 | foster care community and experiencing Jesus together. |
| 1:16.2 | One of the main ways we do this is by helping you launch and lead a thriving foster care |
| 1:21.6 | ministry right where you live. |
| 1:24.0 | These ministries connect churches and agencies so that the church can help meet physical, relational, |
| 1:31.4 | and spiritual needs of the foster care community, and the foster care community can give |
| 1:36.9 | perspective and opportunities to serve to the church. We need each other. I would love for you to join us on this mission. Would you |
| 1:48.3 | join our team of podcast listeners who are also passionate about this vision? Team 310 is a group |
| 1:56.4 | of partners that give to TFI to help us continue on mission. |
| 2:01.7 | Together, we can make a big difference in the foster care community. |
| 2:06.5 | Your gift of $10, $25, or $100 makes a huge impact. |
| 2:11.8 | You can learn more and join today at theforgotteninitiative.org slash team 310. |
| 2:18.7 | That's theforgotteninitiative.org slash team 310. |
| 2:24.7 | Thank you again for joining me. |
| 2:26.9 | And let's go now to today's episode where we will be learning about the perspective of the |
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