Setting Up a Wedding Registry: Episode 817
The Boundless Show
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 772 Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Creating a useful wedding registry, plus Peter Mutabazi’s journey from street kid to foster dad, and do most adults know if they want kids?
Featured musical artist: James Peden
Roundtable: Wedding Registry Advice
One of the most iconic tasks of the engagement season is setting up a wedding registry. But if you hop online and haphazardly add items, or run around a store with a scanner like your life depends on it, you’ll soon second-guess if you’re doing the whole registry thing right. (You’ll also be downright exhausted.) For advice on putting together a thoughtful and practical registry, we asked several of our newlywed friends to share lessons learned, out-of-the-box ideas, and how to avoid offending gift-givers. They also discuss gifts they got that have proven especially meaningful.
Culture: From Street Kid to Single Dad
As a child in Uganda, Peter Mutabazi experienced life in a violent home. He escaped and ran hundreds of miles away to Kampala, where he lived on the streets. He survived this way for years until a young man showed him kindness; this small encounter changed everything. Now living in the United States, Peter is a foster and adoptive dad in addition to running a business and working in the nonprofit world. His story will inspire you as a reminder that God can redeem even the most broken situations.
Now I Am Known: How a Street Kid Turned Foster Dad Found Acceptance and True Worth
Inbox: Do You Want Kids or Not?
Do most people know if they eventually want children? How much should having kids be prioritized, especially when so many young adults are delaying marriage? Counselor Geremy Keeton weighs in.
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| 0:00.0 | Friends, it is that time of year when people contact you and ask you to bless them as we are in the Christmas season and heading into a new year with a monetary gift. |
| 0:12.2 | And you know what? |
| 0:12.8 | I'm just going to go ahead and do that on behalf of Boundless. |
| 0:15.8 | This is Lisa Anderson, host of The Boundless Show. |
| 0:19.8 | And we are in our year-end giving campaign here |
| 0:22.9 | at Focus on the Family and Boundless, and your gift this year is going to be doubled in order |
| 0:28.9 | to further the work of Boundless as we minister to young adults. |
| 0:33.2 | How do you give? |
| 0:34.0 | Go to Boundless.org slash donate. |
| 0:36.6 | You can give today, and your gift will be matched |
| 0:39.6 | by a generous donor who has offered to put up that financial resource in order to stretch |
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| 0:50.9 | year here at boundless as we continue to provide great content and conversation |
| 0:55.9 | for you and everyone you love. Thanks so much in advance. |
| 1:00.1 | Boundless Show. |
| 1:10.7 | Well, hey, everyone. Welcome to this week's episode of The Boundless Show, Lisa Anderson, here with you as we open up the last of our special 25th anniversary shows. And, you know, not that the show's been around 25 years, but Boundless has. And so it's been such a fun month |
| 1:28.4 | celebrating with you. As we always do, let me give you a little preview of what's coming up |
| 1:32.6 | later in the show. For our inbox, we have a listener who's asking, do most people know if they |
| 1:37.9 | want kids or not? Well, it's an important question. So counselor Jeremy Keaton will join us to |
| 1:42.8 | offer some thoughts. And then for our culture |
| 1:44.8 | segment, Peter Mutabazi has an incredible testimony of growing up on the streets of Kampala, Uganda, |
| 1:50.9 | until God saved him, literally and figuratively, I guess, in many different ways. Well, he is now a |
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