Happy Hour #302: Gena Thomas

The Happy Hour with Jamie Ivey

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🗓️ 17 June 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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My guest for The Happy Hour # 302 is Gena Thomas. Gena is a writer, a faith wrestler, a wife, and a mom. She and her husband, Andrew, have been married for 11 years and they have two children, an 8-year-old boy and a 4-year-old girl. Gena has published two books, A Smoldering Wick: Igniting Missions Work with Sustainable Practices and Separated by the Border: A Birth Mother, a Foster Mother, and a Migrant Child's 3,000-Mile Journey. You guys, I have been eager for Gena to be a guest on The Happy Hour since I read her book, Separated by the Border. I originally read the book before my trip to the border last year with Tess Clark and the women of Welcome and I haven’t stopped thinking about it since. Today’s conversation with Gena is so rich and I’m really grateful for her time. In this episode, we talk about lament as a spiritual discipline, her time as a missionary in Mexico, and her unique path to fostering her daughter from Honduras. Gena also shares about the policies that directly affect families at the border and the action she and other women are taking to influence legislative change. I hope this conversation was as encouraging and enlightening for you as it was for me. We can learn so much through proximity and listening to others' stories. Connect with Jamie Facebook // Twitter // Instagram // YouTube GET ALL THE LINKS FROM THE SHOW HERE

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0:00.0	Hey friends and welcome to the happy hour with Jamie Ivy podcasts. I'm your host Jamie and I'm
0:04.8	so glad you're here. Each week on this show I invite a girlfriend to join me and we chat about
0:09.2	the big things in life, the little things in life and everything in between.
0:23.2	Hey friends and welcome to the happy hour. Happy Wednesday if you're listening to this in real time.
0:28.0	I want to let you know that I'm so honored that you would choose to listen to our show today.
0:32.8	There are a lot of voices out there and I have a lot of voices I'm listening to and so the fact
0:37.1	that you would tune in today it means a lot to me. This show the happy hour has actually been one of
0:42.1	my greatest gifts to myself personally over the past couple of years and I've heard the same from
0:47.2	some of you that you have learned so much from all the guests on the show and I can say the exact
0:52.6	same thing. I've been reminding myself and my friends that listening is one of the greatest ways
0:57.0	that we can learn and lament and understand each other. I'm hoping that you find yourself doing
1:02.2	just that today during this show. Listening as my guest Gina Thomas shares her story with us.
1:08.4	I actually read Gina's book separated by the border, a birth mother, a foster mother, and a migrant
1:13.0	child's 3,000 mile journey last year before my trip to the border with Tess Clark and women of
1:18.3	welcome. I highly recommend her book if you're looking something to read and you want to hear more
1:22.3	about her story after the show today. Gina and her husband served as missionaries in Mexico and when
1:26.8	they move back to the States, God moved in their hearts to care for the vulnerable in their city.
1:30.9	This led them to foster care and our conversation we talk about the story of her foster daughter Hulia,
1:36.2	her family and Honduras and how together they worked for it to have them reunited. Gina also shares
1:42.3	important information about the ongoing circumstances at the border and the zero tolerance legislation
1:47.4	that is still in effect today. I ask Gina some hard questions that you might be wondering as you
1:52.1	listen to this. I hope you are encouraged and a little bit more educated through her answers
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