Episode 23: Overcoming the "I Could Nevers" of Foster Care
The Forgotten Podcast
The Forgotten Initiative
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2017
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Fawn Kieser admits she was one of those parents who said with firm conviction, “I could never do foster care—I could never give them back.” But as she and her husband, Brent, took baby steps of faith, starting with just being willing to be moved by God to a new place that they never thought they’d be, she realizes that they have become survivors and overcomers.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Forgotten podcast, bringing voice to the foster care community. |
| 0:23.6 | We've been stretched. Adoptive foster parents, we've been stretched. We've been stretched. Adoptive foster parents, we've been stretched farther than we could have ever imagined, emotionally, physically. |
| 0:30.6 | For people to say we're amazing doesn't feel right. |
| 0:34.6 | But we do know that God is doing amazing things through us. |
| 0:38.8 | And that's what is the amazing thing. |
| 0:59.3 | Hey. Hey, it's Jamie Cabe. |
| 1:01.1 | Welcome back to The Forgotten podcast. |
| 1:06.7 | You can find out more about today's episode by visiting theforgotteninitiative.org slash S2E10 for season two, episode 10. Well, springtime is finally here in Illinois, and this |
| 1:15.6 | makes me so happy. Every year at this time, I just look out my window or I walk outside and I think, |
| 1:22.2 | okay, we made it. We made it through another winter. There are blue skies ahead. So I'm feeling pretty happy today. |
| 1:29.3 | I am also excited to introduce you to my friend Fawn Kieser. Fawn is my guest today, and she and her |
| 1:35.2 | husband Brent have three boys and their foster parents who live in Illinois. Today we're going to hear Fawn's |
| 1:40.9 | story of how God opened her eyes to foster care and continues to |
| 1:45.1 | show their family his faithfulness through this hard and beautiful journey. Now, let's go to that |
| 1:50.8 | interview right now. So Fawn, thanks for being on today. You know, you've been a foster parent now for maybe a year or two. |
| 2:06.4 | Actually, three. Three years. Okay. Your journey to foster care was not something that you had been planning all of your life. It wasn't something that you wanted to do for a long time, right? |
| 2:18.8 | God really had to change you. |
| 2:20.4 | Tell us about that. |
| 2:22.1 | Yeah, I mean, I've struggled a lot with the word God called you to do something, |
| 2:27.7 | and I try to think about how was it for us? |
| 2:30.8 | But I feel like it was more of like a movement, baby steps of faith for us, |
| 2:35.3 | and just beginning with something and then being willing, and then God just kind of moves you |
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