Episode 269: Opening Your Heart and Home to Those in Need (w/ Sarah Hott)
The Forgotten Podcast
The Forgotten Initiative
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Foster care is both rewarding and challenging. It’s happy at times and sad at others; it brings hard days as well as beautiful moments. If you are in the foster care community, you’ve likely seen (or experienced) this firsthand.
But what do we do when we come to the end of ourselves? How do we respond when we feel called to open our homes again to those in need—yet find ourselves unsure if our hearts are ready to face the joys and the pain that foster care can bring?
Our guest for this episode knows this tension well. Sarah Hott’s journey through fostering, adopting, and parenting has taught her profound lessons about faith, community, and the power of love.
Sarah and her husband, Chris, have been foster parents for over six years. They currently have five children in their home—three by adoption from foster care, one biological, and one foster child. Sarah believes that few things draw you to the heart of Jesus like opening your home and heart to children in need and their families.
In this episode, you’ll hear more of Sarah’s personal journey as she shifted from foster parent to adoptive mom, her thoughts on the power and necessity of a supportive community, the ways God showed up when she was at her maximum capacity, and much more.
Find resources mentioned and more in the show notes for this episode: https://theforgotteninitiative.org/sarah-hott-269/
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| 0:00.0 | When you're walking through foster care, I feel like you cannot do it without Jesus and you cannot do it without community around you. |
| 0:14.1 | And I feel like for us specifically, community support has been huge. |
| 0:17.8 | We've had between our church community and our families, we couldn't do it. |
| 0:22.5 | We couldn't do it without them. |
| 0:25.1 | Hey, it's Jamie Cabe. Welcome to the Forgotten podcast, where we are highlighting the stories of the people of foster care. |
| 0:33.4 | We want to bring you hope and encouragement in your journey and help you support the foster care community where you live. |
| 0:40.6 | This podcast is a resource of the Forgotten Initiative. |
| 0:44.4 | Learn more about our work across America and how you can get involved by visiting the forgotteninitiative.org. |
| 0:51.6 | And please consider joining with us on mission with a gift of any amount. |
| 0:57.2 | You can do this by texting the word forgotten to 44321. |
| 1:03.1 | Okay, it's time. |
| 1:05.0 | Let's do this. |
| 1:20.9 | Okay. Sarah and her husband Chris Hot have been foster parents for over six years and currently have five children in their home. |
| 1:23.4 | They have a beautiful blend of foster, adoptive, and biological kids. |
| 1:28.1 | Formerly a full-time teacher, Sarah left the classroom four years ago to focus on her family, |
| 1:33.3 | and now she works part-time for their church. |
| 1:35.8 | Her journey through fostering, adopting, and parenting has taught her profound lessons about faith, |
| 1:41.8 | community, and the power of love. |
| 1:46.1 | She believes few things draw you closer to the heart of Jesus than opening your home and heart, not only to children in need, but also to |
| 1:52.0 | their families. Sarah is passionate about encouraging others to step into the foster care space |
| 1:57.8 | and supporting those already walking this path. Sarah, welcome. So happy to have you on. |
| 2:04.2 | Thank you so much. I'm so happy to be here. I would love to hear how you first felt called into this |
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