Episode 417 - Building Your Family the Way God Builds His with Andrew Hopper

The Nothing Is Wasted Podcast

Davey Blackburn and Aubrey Sampson

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

How do we model the way God brings each of us into His family? How can we faithfully support families who choose to grow their families through fostering or adoption?For Pastor Andrew Hopper, adopting a child with special needs has opened his eyes to a deeper understanding of what it means for each of us to be adopted into the family of God. Through navigating complex medical needs, the pain often associated with adoption, and the work of shaping a church culture that actively supports adoptive and foster families, Andrew has seen firsthand how God reveals the gospel through adoption and foster care. In his book Chosen: Building Your Family the Way God Builds His, he offers a practical and compelling framework for how churches can become places of genuine care and support for families who foster or adopt.In this conversation, Davey and Andrew explore what it looks like to give our children what they truly need—even when it doesn’t align with our expectations, the unique challenges of parenting a child with medical needs, and how the church can learn to be “rope holders”: people who provide meaningful, practical support to those walking the road of adoption and foster care.If your family has been built through adoption or fostering, or if you want to learn how to better care for a family that has, this episode offers practical insight into embracing adoption and foster care as acts of faith, mission, and ministry. Website: https://andrewphopper.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andrewphopper/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AndrewPHopper/ Book: Chosen: Building Your Family the Way God Builds His https://amzn.to/3KeqPR9 Stories matter. They inspire, uplift, and remind us we’re not alone in our pain. Hope in the Valley: 42 Days of Healing Through the Psalms After Loss, Grief, and Tragedy is a new devotional featuring real stories from the Nothing Is Wasted community—offering strength, comfort, and hope in life’s hardest moments. Order your copy today at: www.nothingiswasted.com/hopeinthevalley Looking for help in navigating the valley of pain and trauma? Our Nothing is Wasted coaches can help: www.nothingiswasted.com/coaching Want a pathway through your pain? The Pain to Purpose Course can lead you through all you've been through: www.nothingiswasted.com/paintoppurpose Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Nothing is Wasted podcast, where we meet you in your pain and help you discover a pathway through.
0:09.6	No matter what you've faced or what you're walking through now, we believe your story isn't over.
0:15.0	Each week, you'll hear powerful conversations with people who've partnered with God to reclaim their stories of trauma, loss, and heartbreak, and we'll chat with Christian experts who offer wisdom and
0:26.2	practical tools for healing. This is a place of hope, redemption, and the reminder that
0:31.5	even in your darkest moments, God is still writing your story, because with him, nothing is wasted.
0:38.8	I'm your host, Davey Blackburn.
0:50.8	Hello, hello, welcome to the Nothing is Wasted podcast.
0:53.5	I'm once again joining you from right here in the Moncton, New Brunswick Airport, was just leading a pastor's conference in Sussex, New Brunswick, on the campus of Kingswood University, and needed to get some of these out the door for you. So, you know, the show must go on, no matter what, no matter what kind of travels happening.
1:15.6	But I wanted to give you a little window into, there's a lot more under the iceberg when it comes to the ecosystem of nothing is wasted ministries.
1:24.6	It's not just this podcast.
1:25.6	We have so much content, resources online,
1:28.4	great online community that we're developing
1:31.0	and really enhancing right now.
1:33.1	And then we've got coaches.
1:34.4	And the bulk of what I do is helping churches,
1:37.1	church leaders to really provide spaces
1:40.0	where people can heal because our mission here
1:42.1	is meeting you in your pain and providing a pathway
1:45.0	through. And there are so many pastors and ministry leaders who are looking for ways to meet
1:51.5	people in their pain and provide a pathway through. We really believe that as we get healed,
1:57.0	as we become whole people again, as we begin to take back territory from the enemy
2:03.1	and the areas where he's stolen and robbed from us, the trauma that's threatened to neutralize
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