Episode 163: The Beauty of Entering the Mess (w/ Cynthia Yanof)
The Forgotten Podcast
The Forgotten Initiative
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
As you may know, stepping in to support the foster care community can be messy sometimes. We are broken people stepping into broken situations. None of us are perfect, yet we are called to step into these situations anyway. My guest today has personal experience with this. Cynthia Yanof is a former attorney, foster mom, author, and host of the Pardon the Mess podcast.
When Cynthia and her husband felt the call to step into foster care, they had fears, the urge to cling to safety, and the feeling of being completely ill-equipped. Can you relate!? In spite of all their fears, they stepped out in faith and were amazed by how God provided for them on their journey.
In this episode, Cynthia shares her family’s experience of being called to foster, overcoming some common objections people have, and the values they have learned along the way. Cynthia is a dynamic bundle of energy and I know you will be blessed to hear her passion and perspective on foster care.
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| 0:00.0 | Sharing the stories of the foster care community. |
| 0:03.6 | This is The Forgotten podcast. |
| 0:06.4 | My testimony has been that I went into foster care scared of what it |
| 0:09.9 | to do to our family, and I came out of it scared of who we'd be if we had not done it. |
| 0:14.0 | Because you are changed people when you chase after things of God. |
| 0:26.3 | Hey, it's Jamie Cabe. |
| 0:31.2 | Welcome back to the Forgotten podcast, where we are highlighting the stories of the people of foster care. |
| 0:32.8 | With every episode, our goal is to help you better understand the foster care community. |
| 0:38.5 | We want to bring you hope and encouragement in your journey and help you support the agency |
| 0:43.4 | workers, foster parents, vulnerable adults, and children in foster care right where you live. |
| 0:50.2 | If you want to learn more about TFI, catch up on past episodes, read engaging articles, or partner with us on mission with a gift of any amount. |
| 0:59.9 | Head over to the forgotten initiative.org. |
| 1:03.5 | We are in this together. |
| 1:05.9 | Thank you for listening and engaging with us. |
| 1:08.7 | We love having you as part of our family. Okay, it is time. Let's do this. |
| 1:20.5 | Cynthia, I'm really, really excited for our conversation today. I do want to give our listeners |
| 1:25.9 | just a bit of context before we begin. I want them to know |
| 1:30.3 | you are a wife, a mom, an author, and host of the Part in the Mess podcast, which I love the |
| 1:38.5 | name. That's a great podcast for moms, right? Is it primarily for moms? I would say primarily, |
| 1:44.1 | but we have a pretty strong dad following. Who knew? |
| 1:46.7 | I love it. I love it. I have been, as I've gotten to know you through my research, words that describe you are honest, fun, relatable, real, a friend to all. |
| 1:59.5 | So I also have seen that you love Jesus, your family, your friends, and you love foster care. |
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