Episode 2: Finding the "Perfect" Time to Foster or Adopt
The Forgotten Podcast
The Forgotten Initiative
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2016
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
In this episode with Jason Johnson, you’ll discover how to find the “perfect” time to foster or adopt, how to navigate the concern of loving a child that might leave your family, and learn a new way to look at comments from strangers about your adoptive or foster family.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Forgotten podcast, bringing voice to the foster care community. |
| 0:17.1 | She said exactly what I needed to hear and that I already knew to be true. |
| 0:21.0 | I just didn't want anybody to say to me is that the game you're playing with trying to find the right time, the perfect time, it's never going to happen. |
| 0:30.5 | And so it needs to be now. |
| 0:31.9 | There's kids out there now. |
| 0:35.0 | Coming to you from my makeshift studio, I'm your host, Jamie Cabe. Welcome to the Forgotten |
| 0:40.5 | podcast, where we are bringing voice to the foster care community. Today marks season one, |
| 0:46.3 | episode one of the Forgotten podcast, and I'm really excited for you to hear my interview |
| 0:51.1 | with my friend Jason Johnson. Whether you're a foster parent or know |
| 0:55.4 | someone who is, I know you're going to be encouraged by what Jason has to say. I had so many |
| 1:00.3 | questions for him that we decided to make this a two-part episode. But before we cut to the interview, |
| 1:05.5 | let me tell you a little bit more about him. Jason is the director of the National Church Mobilization Initiative with Christian Alliance for |
| 1:13.7 | Orphans, where he spends the majority of his time coaching and consulting with church leadership |
| 1:18.0 | teams from around the country on how to start, lead, and grow orphan care ministries |
| 1:22.4 | within their church. |
| 1:24.0 | Jason is the author of All In Orphan Care and the Beauty and Brokenness of Foster Care, |
| 1:28.7 | and he blogs regularly at jasonjohnson blog.com. |
| 1:32.6 | He has a deep passion to see the gospel catalyze a movement of orphan care within the church |
| 1:37.2 | around the world. |
| 1:38.7 | Jason and his wife, Emily, are foster and adoptive parents and live in Texas with their |
| 1:43.2 | four daughters. |
| 1:45.1 | All right, let's do this. Here is my interview with Jason Johnson. Hey Jason, it's so good to have you today on the podcast. |
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