From Foster Care to Family: How a Small Church is Making a Big Impact
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 1 July 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Bishop W. C. Martin shares his remarkable story of leading his small church to adopt 77 children out of the foster care system, alongside the producer who's turned his story into a movie, Rebekah Weigel. Dr. Sharen Ford encourages and equips families to be a part of the movement Martin and Weigel are starting, to end the foster care crisis.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly, you're going to hear how one couple answered |
| 0:06.7 | God's call to care for the fatherless and how they inspired an entire community to actively love children in need. |
| 0:14.0 | Thanks for joining us. I'm John Fuller. |
| 0:16.0 | John, I want everybody to know we are a pro-life ministry. We're not embarrassed by that. |
| 0:21.0 | We think that's the better choice and we work hard every day |
| 0:23.9 | here focus on the family to help women make that decision and then to help them |
| 0:28.9 | along that journey. Many churches are doing the same thing, |
| 0:33.0 | pregnancy resource centers, |
| 0:35.0 | there's so much help in that space. |
| 0:37.0 | But you know what? |
| 0:38.0 | There are families that end up impacted |
| 0:42.0 | by so many different things drugs and alcohol and that was my story my dad was an |
| 0:47.5 | alcoholic my mom died when I was nine I ended up in foster care for a year and that's why this is so close to my heart |
| 0:55.2 | being a former foster child and many many years ago I heard of a story of a |
| 1:02.2 | pastor and it was Bishop Martin who's one of our guests today |
| 1:05.3 | whose church of about 200 had about 77 kids adopted I was like wow what is in the water in possum trot and so I am so excited today |
| 1:17.0 | because really I want to say this with the deepest respect his testimony his witness is what initiated our effort here at focus to do more in the |
| 1:27.8 | foster space. |
| 1:29.2 | And boy, we've done a lot under the direction of Dr. Sharon Ford who heads up that effort. Families are being equipped |
| 1:36.4 | and educated about what it means to come into the foster care system and adopt and care for these children. |
| 1:42.0 | We have Bishop W.C. Martin joining us. and adopt and care for these children. |
| 1:43.0 | We have Bishop W.C. Martin joining us, as you said, Jim, he's the pastor of Bennett Chapel |
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