Episode 16: Getting the Local Church Involved in Foster Care Ministry
The Forgotten Podcast
The Forgotten Initiative
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2016
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Chris Shandrow will encourage you to get your church involved in serving the foster care community. Chris is the Lead Pastor of Compass Church in Bloomington, Illinois. Compass was planted in 2013 with the goal of making God accessible to everyone.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Forgotten podcast, bringing voice to the foster care community. |
| 0:19.0 | And I think for us as our first real community outreach and our first real giving push to be journey bags, |
| 0:25.3 | I think that kind of pressed into the wet cement of our church, our value of really loving and caring about the foster care community and the foster kids in our city, |
| 0:35.0 | as well as this willingness to go beyond and giving, not just because we |
| 0:40.1 | wanted to meet a need at the lowest level possible, but because we wanted to go above and |
| 0:45.3 | beyond and show the extravagant love of Jesus and how we gave. |
| 0:56.4 | Hey, it's Jamie Cabe. |
| 0:58.2 | Welcome back to the Forgotten podcast. |
| 1:03.6 | You can find out more about today's episode by visiting the forgotten initiative.org slash S2E3. |
| 1:06.5 | That's for season two, episode three. |
| 1:09.3 | Well, I'm very excited to let you know that we hit a milestone. |
| 1:13.2 | Last week, we hit over 10,000 downloads. |
| 1:16.8 | We have been heard in 12 countries. |
| 1:19.3 | 49 of the 50 states. |
| 1:21.3 | In fact, we're just waiting on Wyoming. |
| 1:23.4 | So if you have friends in Wyoming, tell them to tune in. |
| 1:27.3 | We want to bring voice to the foster care community all over the nation. So if you have friends in Wyoming, tell them to tune in. |
| 1:32.6 | We want to bring voice to the foster care community all over the nation and even the world. |
| 1:33.3 | This is awesome. |
| 1:41.2 | Well, today I'm going to be talking with Chris Shandrow, my friend and lead pastor of Compass Church in Bloomington, Illinois. |
| 1:45.9 | Chris is married to Terry, and they have three beautiful kids. I got to know Chris a few years back, and their church has been so involved in our local foster care community, |
| 1:50.6 | they truly show the love of Jesus to those who may not otherwise experience that. And he's going to |
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