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Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 1 July 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Would you believe that almost half a million kids are in foster care right now? So how should Christians in the U.S. respond? In this program, you will hear about the new movie “Sound of Hope”, which sheds light on this pressing and challenging crisis. Experience the true story of a little church in Possum Trot, Texas, that started a movement by radically caring for the hurting kids in their community.
Main Points- Foster care system's harsh reality: Millions of families facing poverty, addiction, and abuse.
- Grim statistics: Four million families on the brink, 400,000 children in foster care, 100,000 awaiting adoption.
- Traumatic outcomes for children: Link between foster care and sex trafficking, incarceration, and homelessness.
- Urgent need for societal intervention: Shift from neglecting vulnerable families to providing support and resources.
- Introduction of a film depicting a small church's transformative impact through adoption.
- Film's authenticity: Depicts real-life challenges without Hollywood gloss.
- Film's origin: Based on a true story, developed by filmmakers moved by the story's authenticity.
- Donor-funded production: Profits directed towards supporting children and families in crisis.
- Call to action: Support the film's release, and get involved in community initiatives like CarePortal.
- Collaborative efforts: Partnership between churches and government agencies to address child welfare issues.
- 11. Conclusion with a prayer for God's intervention and gratitude for the opportunity to make a difference.
Chip Ingram’s passion is helping Christians really live like Christians. As a pastor, author, and teacher for more than three decades, Chip has helped believers around the world move from spiritual spectators to healthy, authentic disciples of Jesus by living out God’s truth in their lives and relationships in transformational ways.
About Living on the EdgeLiving on the Edge exists to help Christians live like Christians. Established in 1995 as the radio ministry of pastor and author Chip Ingram, God has since grown it into a global discipleship ministry. Living on the Edge provides Biblical teaching and discipleship resources that challenge and equip spiritually hungry Christians all over the world to become mature disciples of Jesus.
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| 0:00.0 | Did you know that right now in the United States there's nearly a half a million kids |
| 0:06.5 | that are in foster care? I mean that shocked me. So what do we do? How should we as the body of Christ respond? Well today I want you to hear a real life story of a small little church in East Texas who loved vulnerable kids in their community in an amazing and radical way |
| 0:25.0 | that absolutely changed an entire county in Texas. |
| 0:29.0 | You've got to hear this story. Welcome to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chippingram. |
| 0:39.0 | Living on the Edge is an international teaching and discipleship ministry focused on helping Christians live like Christians. |
| 0:46.0 | I'm sure many of you have seen the recent blockbuster movie Sound of Freedom that shed light on |
| 0:50.8 | the pervasive issue of child trafficking going on around the world. |
| 0:55.2 | In just a minute we'll tell you about a follow-up movie to that hit called Sound of Hope, |
| 1:00.0 | the story of Possum Trot that focuses on America's foster care crisis. |
| 1:04.8 | Today, Chip's going to talk to one of the executive producers of this new film, |
| 1:08.7 | Joe Knitig. |
| 1:09.6 | Joe is the CEO of the Global Orphan Project, an organization on a mission to care for vulnerable kids |
| 1:15.8 | everywhere. |
| 1:16.8 | Well, if you're ready, here's Chip to get the ball rolling for this meaningful conversation. |
| 1:21.7 | Well, I don't want to start on a negative note, |
| 1:25.0 | but sometimes good news isn't good news |
| 1:27.0 | until you know the bad news. |
| 1:29.0 | So, could you paint the picture of what life is like in the foster care system right now? |
| 1:35.0 | Yeah, you know, Nelson Mandela once said that there can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children. |
| 1:46.6 | And so if we look at our most vulnerable children in the nation, what is the condition of our society's soul? |
| 1:55.0 | And Chibbut paints a very grim picture. |
| 1:59.0 | In the richest country the world has ever known, every year four million families stand at the |
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