Episode 18: The National Foster Care Initiative—Helping Others Engage in Caring for Kids
The Forgotten Podcast
The Forgotten Initiative
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2017
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Jason Weber’s experience with working with the inner-city kids and families provided not only an invitation to foster, but also an invitation to help other followers of Christ engage in caring for kids who needed families.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Forgotten podcast, bringing voice to the foster care community. |
| 0:13.0 | Oftentimes in orphan care, we want to kind of shock in awe people by sharing the biggest numbers we can find, when in reality, what we |
| 0:21.3 | should be doing is sharing the smallest numbers we can find. We should be going to our pastor saying, |
| 0:26.3 | pastor, we've got 30 kids in foster care in our county. We've got 12 of them who need forever |
| 0:32.3 | families. And there are 22 churches in our county. So what would it look like for us to work together with a few other churches and make sure that that small number of kids have ideal foster placements, have adoptive families, those that need it? |
| 0:46.0 | Because what that looks like for our individual church is our church taking care of one or two or three kids. |
| 0:56.6 | Hey, it's Jamie Cabe. |
| 0:58.5 | Welcome back to the Forgotten Podcast. |
| 1:00.8 | This is our first episode of 2017. |
| 1:04.7 | We've been off for about a month, so I kind of miss sitting in this space with you. |
| 1:09.4 | I'm here in my studio that also dubs as my closet, having my coffee in my hand, and I'm ready to get going on this interview. |
| 1:18.4 | You are going to really enjoy hearing from my guest today, Jason Weber. |
| 1:22.6 | But before I talk about him, let me just tell you where you can go to find out more about today's episode. |
| 1:28.0 | Head over to the forgotteninitiative.org slash S2E5. That's for season two, episode |
| 1:35.3 | five. So Jason Weber is passionate about helping people solve big problems by working together. |
| 1:42.4 | This is evident in everything that he does. Jason and his wife |
| 1:45.4 | Trisha have been caring for kids from the U.S. foster care system since 2001, including adopting |
| 1:52.0 | their five children from foster care. Jason has helped to produce and write several books. |
| 1:57.5 | We'll talk about one of those today, Bible studies and other tools created to serve |
| 2:01.6 | the church as it cares for hurting kids. Jason serves as the national director of foster care |
| 2:07.6 | initiatives for this Christian Alliance for Orphans, and he currently lives in Texas. You are going to |
| 2:14.1 | enjoy today's episode. You're probably going to want to grab a notebook or have your computer handy to take some notes, |
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