Navigating Foster Care with Meredith Brock
Pardon the Mess with Scarlet Hiltibidal - Christian Motherhood, Biblical Parenting, Raising Christian Kids
Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
4.9 • 849 Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Foster care is a journey that holds both deep brokenness and incredible beauty. For many families, it can also feel overwhelming to know how to step in and support children from hard places.
In this episode, Meredith Brock, CEO of Proverbs 31 Ministries and a foster and adoptive mom, shares insights from her family’s experience with foster care and how the journey has shaped her faith and motherhood. The conversation explores the realities of caring for vulnerable children, the tension of holding both joy and heartbreak, and the ways God often meets families in their most difficult moments.
Together they talk about what it looks like to support children with hard stories, how foster care can refine and stretch a family’s faith, and why the church has such an important role in caring for these kids.
It’s also a reminder that supporting the foster care system isn’t limited to becoming a foster parent. Whether through respite care, advocacy, or supporting families already in the system, there are meaningful ways we can all step in and help.
00:00 Introduction and Personal Background
05:53 The Call to Foster Care
11:57 The Importance of Community Support
17:58 Respite Care and Community Involvement
24:07 Personal Growth Through Foster Care
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| 0:00.0 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:09.0 | Parenting is busy and chaos happens before the coffee finishes brewing. |
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| 0:19.8 | It's a quick pause at the start of your day. |
| 0:22.1 | Each weekday morning, you'll get one verse to strengthen your spirit, one parenting insight, |
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| 0:43.3 | inbox every weekday. That's morning minute.org or click the link in the show notes. |
| 0:48.0 | Music Friends, welcome back to Part of the Mess. |
| 1:01.9 | I'm your host, Courtney Defeo, and you all are in for a treat. |
| 1:05.4 | Meredith Brock is one of my favorite female leaders out there. |
| 1:09.6 | I met her years ago through our mutual friend Lisa |
| 1:11.9 | Terkhurst, and she's been with Proverbs 31. Meredith has for, I think she says, over 14 years, |
| 1:16.9 | but in the last three years, she's been the CEO of Proverbs 31. But on all the things she does, |
| 1:22.2 | she's a wife to Mac Brock, who is a very popular and amazing worship leader and songwriter. She's a |
| 1:27.4 | mama four. |
| 1:28.4 | I don't know how she does it all, but she also serves a few authors as a literary agent. |
| 1:33.0 | And so that is kind of the world I connected with her in is just watching her represent Lisa. |
| 1:38.0 | And she is so creative and so amazing. I actually assume that she had written devotions and |
| 1:43.2 | books herself, which I'll ask her about later. She's like, oh, no, no, I'm not that person. I actually assumed that she had written devotions and books herself, which I'll ask her |
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