Foster Care: Everyone Has a Role to Play
Coffee + Crumbs Podcast
Ashlee Gadd
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Today, we’re talking all things foster care with Jessica Mathisen, a foster, adoptive, and bio mom. Jessica sheds light on the enormous need for vulnerable kids to have a safe place to call home, misconceptions about foster care, challenges for foster families, and how churches, neighbors—and essentially everyone—can help in some capacity. Good news: being a Super Christian is not a prerequisite for making a difference. If you’re feeling convicted by this conversation (we sure are), she encourages us to take the next baby step because we’ll never know all the good that God is doing with each “yes” along the way.
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Jessica shares about foster care; listen to this episode to hear An Honest Conversation About Adoption.
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| 0:00.0 | We believe motherhood is a gift, an art, not a science. |
| 0:07.2 | We believe it takes a village to raise our kids and that motherhood is better when we stick together. |
| 0:12.7 | Most of all, we believe motherhood is holy work. |
| 0:16.9 | At the core of our show, we want you to feel safe, known, encouraged, and loved. This is the |
| 0:23.2 | Coffee and Crumbs podcast. Hello, friends, and welcome back to the Coffee and Crumbs |
| 0:31.6 | podcast. Today, it is a total joy to have our friend Jessica Matheson on as a guest. |
| 0:38.9 | Jessica is a former elementary school teacher and a foster adoptive and bio-mom whose passion |
| 0:44.5 | is to communicate God's love to others through words and relationships. |
| 0:47.5 | And she is also the author of the sweetest newly released children's book, No Matter |
| 0:53.4 | Where I Go, God's Love for Kids in |
| 0:55.4 | Foster Care, which is what we're going to talk about with her today. And as a mama, myself, |
| 1:00.1 | who adopted one of her kiddos through the foster care system here in Eastern Washington, |
| 1:03.7 | it's a subject that is so near to my heart. And I know that's true for many of you listening. |
| 1:08.8 | So Jessica, thanks for coming on. We're so glad to have you today. Thank you for having me. I'm so excited to get to chat with you. |
| 1:15.5 | Aw. Well, Jessica, I know we kind of just read your official bio, but can you tell us more about yourself, |
| 1:22.8 | about your family, and about your experience as a foster parent to kind of kick off our conversation. |
| 1:28.2 | Yeah. So my family, we live just outside of Atlanta, Georgia. And we are actually new here, |
| 1:36.0 | but I kind of like to say that I moved back home-ish because Metro Atlanta is so large. So I actually |
| 1:43.1 | grew up about 30, 40 minutes from where we are, |
| 1:45.8 | but it's the same county that I grew up in. It's a lot. And so my husband and I, we've been married |
| 1:52.8 | for almost 10 years. We'll celebrate 10 years this summer. And we have three kids. And our oldest |
| 1:58.5 | came to us through foster care, but we actually had about five |
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