Mike Jewell: Building Bridges – How Churches Can Transform Foster Care

Stand Up For The Truth Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.7 • 530 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Mike Jewell

Today’s FRESH NEW Stand Up for the Truth Podcasts features host Dave Wager with guest Mike Jewell, founder of Family Connect Wisconsin, applying James 1:27 to real families in crisis. Mike explains how churches can become the point of care for vulnerable kids by meeting vetted needs from local caseworkers, then building relationships that lead to stability and discipleship. The tool is simple: a request is posted, a donor funds it, a church delivers it, and a connection begins. Dave underscores that kids don’t just need lectures, they need living examples of Christlike love.

Listeners hear stories of beds delivered, meals shared, and single moms supported, along with early impact numbers and a vision to expand county by county. The invite is clear: pray, give, and form a small church response team so families see healthy believers up close. Pure religion visits the vulnerable and keeps unstained from the world. When the church shows up, kids are protected, parents are strengthened, and communities see the gospel in action.

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0:00.0	Three, three, two, two, one, zero, zero, zero, seven in Wisconsin.
0:12.5	This is the stand-up for the truth podcast.
0:15.7	Today's issues, overlooked headlines, and biblical observations,
0:20.6	equipping the remnant around the globe.
0:23.4	Got your sword handy?
0:25.4	This is Stand Up for the Truth.
0:28.6	I'm Dave Wager, your host for today's Stand Up for the Truth program.
0:32.7	I guess this hour is going to be a good friend of mine, Mike Jewel, who is the founder and president of Family Connect W.I. Wisconsin.
0:42.3	And we're going to talk about that.
0:44.8	Scripture verse for today, James 127, religion that is pure and undefile before God, the father, is this.
0:54.0	To visit orphans and widows in their affliction
0:57.0	and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
1:01.0	Boy, I wish we had the whole program on that verse, Mike, because that's one powerful statement right there.
1:08.0	Not only to take care of those in need, but to keep myself unstained
1:13.0	from the world. Don't let the world tell you how to do this. There's a way to do this, and the
1:18.3	world doesn't know how, stay away from them. Let's figure out how God says to love one another,
1:23.9	and we'll get into that, but let me pray. Father pray father again thank you for the time we can share
1:28.2	together and stand up for the truth and talk about some ideas that we have that can help the young
1:35.0	people of our nation and we ask that your spirit would speak through us and that we would be an
1:41.3	encouragement to all who listened today in In Jesus' name we pray.
1:45.1	Amen.
1:45.7	Amen.
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