Episode 67: The Power of a Surrendered Heart
The Forgotten Podcast
The Forgotten Initiative
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2019
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Are you a foster parent, serving and loving kids in your home, but are unable to quiet the nudge in your heart to do more? Today you will hear Wendy Carlton’s journey of quiet prayer to foster care and then foster care advocacy.You will learn ways you are needed to make a difference in the lives of children, too!
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| 0:00.0 | Meeting you right where you are on your foster care journey, this is The Forgotten podcast. |
| 0:08.7 | Going into foster care, my husband wasn't completely on board, and I had to let go and stop the process of starting to foster because I didn't want to push him into something. |
| 0:19.6 | And I had just prayed, God, if this is |
| 0:21.2 | your will, just change his heart. And he came home in the middle of the night one night and said, |
| 0:25.7 | we're supposed to be foster parents. Let's do this. Hey, it's Jamie Cabe. Welcome to the |
| 0:35.1 | Forgotten Podcast. It is a true privilege to be with you today. |
| 0:39.3 | Do you know that every time we create a show, we are thinking of you, whether you are brand new to this world of foster care, |
| 0:45.9 | or maybe you're already a foster parent or serving the foster care community in some other way? |
| 0:51.0 | But the need is overwhelming and there is only so much you can do on your own. |
| 0:56.2 | Today, you will hear Wendy Carlton's journey to foster care advocacy and learn some |
| 1:01.3 | practical ways that you can help engage others to serve. Now, if you haven't yet heard from |
| 1:06.6 | Wendy about her journey to foster parenting, you may want to pause now and listen to that episode |
| 1:11.5 | first. You can find links to that episode in today's show notes at the forgotten podcast.org |
| 1:17.3 | or look up the forgotten podcast on iTunes and find her episode called Establishing a meaningful |
| 1:23.3 | relationship with birth parents. Wendy and her husband Ty have four kids and sometimes more depending |
| 1:29.2 | on who they are fostering at the time. Wendy is the director of the Royal Family Kids Camp |
| 1:34.8 | in Bloomington, Normal, Illinois. If this podcast is helpful to you, please share it with others |
| 1:40.5 | so that more people can hear the message of foster care. |
| 1:46.2 | All right, let's go now to today's show. |
| 1:57.0 | So at the Forgotten Initiative, we believe that awareness leads to action. |
| 2:01.9 | And Wendy, we've heard your journey before on the podcast about how you became a foster parent and then how we can also love and support our kids as birth parents. |
| 2:06.7 | But today, I want you to tell us about your journey to foster care advocacy. |
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