Preview: Stories of Foster Care and Adoption Series

The Happy Hour with Jamie Ivey

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🗓️ 3 May 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Did you know that over 400,000 kids are in foster care in the United States? That means there are hundreds of thousands of personal stories. Hundreds of thousands of children are without a place to call home permanently. This need is ginormous, and I subscribe to the idea that we all play a part. I don’t subscribe to the idea that all families should adopt. However, I believe we should all care for vulnerable children. It’s not an option to not care. I’m excited to share a two-week series on The Happy Hour about foster care. May is National Foster Care Month, and we want to highlight some of the different people who play a role in foster care. Foster Care advocate, a survivor of the foster care system, a foster/adoptive momma, and the story of a birth mom who placed her son for adoption. Wherever you are in your world, I want you to know and believe that these stories matter to you. The reason they matter to you is because they deeply matter to God. Listen to these four women share their stories and allow God to change you because of them.

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0:00.0	Hey friends, May is National Foster Care Month and so we decided let's have a
0:05.1	whole series that revolves around foster care. We believe that talking about foster
0:10.0	care matters because these children matter and these parents matter and these
0:14.0	siblings matter and these birth parents matter and they matter because they
0:17.7	matter to God and they're made in his image and their beautiful beautiful
0:21.3	beings who deserve our attention and deserve our time and our care and so we
0:26.8	know that not everyone is going to be able to jump into foster care but we do
0:30.8	believe that everyone should care about the foster care system here in America
0:35.0	and the whole triad of people involved from the children to the birth parents to
0:39.7	the adopted parents to the foster parents. Everyone matters and so for the next
0:43.5	two weeks the beginning month of May we have four episodes that we think are
0:48.2	going to be a super encouraging to you as you think about foster care. The first
0:52.9	person that we have joining us is Jamie Finn and Jamie Finn runs an organization
0:57.0	called Foster the Family. She has a book that came out this year by the same
0:59.6	title and we talk about some of our misconceptions that we might have around
1:03.2	foster care. Foster care, we talk about it like it's about kids. Foster care is
1:07.8	about taking care of kids. It's not. Foster care is about playing a part in a
1:14.0	family being healed which is beautiful from a worldly justice-minded you know
1:21.8	it's beautiful in and of itself but then when we look at the gospel
1:25.8	implications that that is literally what Jesus came to do to come into
1:31.3	brokenness and bring healing restoration to make new what was old and we get to
1:38.2	do this gospel work of applying that to families okay this family needs
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