S9 Ep957: Are Orphanages Doing More Harm Than Good? Alycia Pinizzotto
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🗓️ 24 March 2022
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Summary
Every Christian believes that orphans should be cared for. But how? Do they belong in orphanages or in families? Are orphanages a necessary way to care for orphans in a broken world? Or are they perpetuating a cycle of harm toward vulnerable and traumatized children? Alycia used to run an orphanage with her husband, but came to believe that they were not actually helping kids, so they developed a different approach to orphan care, one that helps vulnerable kids be placed in healthy families.
Alycia is the CEO at Story International, an organization that serves the vulnerable of Guatemala so that we may one day see the restoration of family structures and the cycles of generational poverty broken. Story Intl. strives to see fewer kids institutionalized and more kids cared for in the context of family. They seek to empower communities and engage the local church as a new generation of Guatemalans rises up to lead their communities with unwavering faith in Jesus Christ. Story’s motto is: Children belong in families, not orphanages, which is the focus of our conversation.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alycia-pinizzotto
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, friends. Welcome back to another episode of theology in the raw. |
| 0:02.6 | We are exactly one week away from the first annual theology general exiles and Babylon conference. |
| 0:09.1 | There is just a few in person spots open. |
| 0:12.6 | So I know that probably grabbing a plane ticket and flying out here is it might be a little too |
| 0:17.1 | late for you to plan that. But if you do want to make a last minute decision to come out here, |
| 0:20.1 | there are still just a few spots open. But online registration is unlimited. So if you do want to |
| 0:27.2 | follow the exiles and Babylon conference, it's going to be unique. It's going to be engaging. |
| 0:32.0 | It's going to be probably like no other Christian conference you've been through for various reasons, |
| 0:36.4 | as you will see if you attend. And yeah, we did recently add Francis Chan to the repertoire of |
| 0:44.2 | speakers. So I'm really excited about that. He's going to be certainly very challenging and |
| 0:48.3 | provocative as he always is. My guest today is Alicia Pinizoto. Oh, Alicia, I hope I didn't |
| 0:57.5 | put your name. You told me it. And I practiced it. And now I forgot exactly how to pronounce it. But |
| 1:03.3 | Alicia is the director, the executive director at Story International, which she'll explain what |
| 1:11.5 | she does in this podcast. Long story short, we are going to talk about different approaches to orphan |
| 1:20.4 | care. Now I want to give a I guess a little maybe word of warning up front that there is a fairly |
| 1:27.6 | heated debate about how best to care for orphans. And one side of the debate is is very big on |
| 1:38.9 | orphanages and Alicia and her husband ran an orphanage for many years. But she more recently, |
| 1:46.1 | like it over the last five years, has had a really change in perspective. And so now she would be |
| 1:52.7 | much more critical of orphanages as a means of caring for orphans. There's no debate, shouldn't be |
| 1:58.5 | any debate about whether we should care for orphans. The debate is how best to care for orphans. |
| 2:05.7 | My word of warning up front is I know probably some of you have been personally invested in, |
| 2:11.1 | maybe financially, maybe with your time in orphanages. And you're going to hear some things that |
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