Episode 53: The Search for Identity Leads to Foster Care Ministry
The Forgotten Podcast
The Forgotten Initiative
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2018
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Holly Miller was born into foster care and was adopted at the age of seven by the family with whom she had been in a long-term placement. The adoption conversation was always open, but she as she grew, she found she had more questions than answers because she simply didn’t know much about her life before her adoption. Her journey of working through the “who am I” questions led her down an interesting path that has recently resulted in a ministry that combines her passion for foster and adoptive children and their families with a need in her community.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Forgotten podcast, bringing voice to the foster care community. |
| 0:07.0 | I just started writing and I found myself using me as an example because that's what I could identify with. |
| 0:18.0 | And then all the questions, what did my dad look like? |
| 0:21.0 | Or where was I born? |
| 0:22.4 | Or just trying to come up with a creative story to tell, |
| 0:25.6 | realizing there were so many gaps that I had no idea of. |
| 0:29.0 | I wasn't even able to finish that assignment. Hey, it's Jamie Cabe. Welcome to The Forgotten Podcast. |
| 0:53.5 | You can find out more about today's episode at |
| 0:56.3 | theforgotteninitiative.org slash S5E3. That's for Season 5, Episode 3. Holly Miller is my guest today, |
| 1:07.2 | and she shares from her unique perspective as one who is essentially born into foster care |
| 1:12.2 | and adopted out years later. As an adoptive mom, I really leaned in as she shared the feelings |
| 1:18.9 | she experienced while growing up in her adoptive home. Holly is married to Jason and his mom to Kayla. |
| 1:25.9 | Drawing from her experiences from childhood, she shares her |
| 1:29.0 | passion with others, which is empowering ministry teams, developing leaders, equipping volunteers, |
| 1:36.0 | and shepherding families to grow in Christ. She is also the founder of an exciting new |
| 1:41.8 | ministry in her church called New Hope for Kids. So let's go to my |
| 1:46.5 | interview with Holly right now. |
| 1:54.4 | All right, Holly. Well, it's good to have you here today with me and our listeners, and |
| 1:59.4 | you're going to tell some of your story. You actually |
| 2:01.7 | spent some time in foster care as a child. So will you just start by telling us how old were you |
| 2:07.5 | when you first entered care? Yeah. I was born into care. So my mother wasn't able to provide for me. |
| 2:13.5 | And so I entered the foster system on day one, and then I was officially adopted when I was about |
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