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And I can't help but think we did have a choice. We didn't have to take him. He was messy. He was hard. Our lives changed completely.

But if we didn't take him, if we said no, what would have happened? I think the trajectory of his life changed. I know our lives have forever been changed.

We can't even begin to explain all the ways God changed our hearts.

That's Dawn Stone, touching on the way that God can work on your heart through foster care.

She and her husband, John, join us today on Focus on the Family and your host is Focus President and author Jim Daly. I'm John Fuller.

John, when we think of foster care, we've had a few programs here focused to talk about it. Let me give it some scope and dimension.

There's probably about 410, 420,000 kids in the foster care program across the US.

Generally, the bigger the state, the more children are in the foster system here in Colorado. It's about 1,000 children.

Texas, probably 26, 27,000. California would be similar. Florida, New York, bigger states, more children, obviously.

I think the situation with drugs flowing into the country, et cetera, has exacerbated the foster care system.

A lot of parents go into drug rehab and their kids need a place to say. That's a common situation in foster care today.

I remember we started weight no more. Our foster initiative here focused on the family a number of years ago.

I laughed because I got home and Jean had heard the broadcast and I was asking people to get involved.

She said, well, if you're going to ask people to get involved, we should get involved. I was like, no, no, no. I've already done my time.

I was a foster office kid. I don't want to be a foster parent. She said, that doesn't make sense to me. We need to get licensed. Let's do it.

Yes, ma'am. For those particularly husbands that might drag their feet, I'm with you. I get it.

But I'll tell you what, the successes that we saw were terrific. It wasn't easy at times. There were obviously some of the failures were there as well.

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