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🗓️ 12 May 2025
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0:00.0 | You're listening to Family Talk, the radio broadcasting division of the James Dobson Family Institute. |
0:06.3 | I am that James Dobson, and I'm so pleased that you've joined us today. |
0:18.0 | Well, welcome to Family Talk, the broadcast division of the Dr. James Dobson Family Institute. |
0:24.1 | I'm Roger Marsh, and our co-host for today's edition of Family Talk is Michelle Bachman. |
0:28.9 | Michelle is a valued member of our board here at the JDFI. |
0:31.6 | She's also a former congresswoman for Minnesota's 6th Congressional District, so it's always |
0:36.8 | nice to have the honorable |
0:37.8 | Michelle Bachman in the co-host seat here on Family Talk. On today's program, we're going to look at |
0:42.9 | some staggering and frankly quite disheartening statistics about the number of children in America's |
0:48.2 | foster care system, kids who are waiting for adoption, in some cases waiting for reconciliation |
0:53.1 | with their birth parents. |
0:54.8 | But we're also going to see that with God's help, anything is possible when faith meets action. |
1:00.9 | Our guest today here on Dr. James Dobson's family talk are Bishop W.C. Martin and his wife, Lady |
1:06.6 | Donna Martin. They hail from the tiny community of Possum Trot, Texas, population, about 700 people. |
1:14.3 | Following a personal tragedy and a divine prompting, the Martins began what eventually would |
1:19.4 | become an adoption movement through their Bennett Chapel Baptist Church family. |
1:23.6 | What started as one family's obedience to literally take up the cause of the fatherless. |
1:29.3 | That inspired the entire congregation to adopt, are you ready for this, 77 children from the |
1:35.3 | foster care system, many of them with troubled backgrounds and special needs. Now, a church in a town |
1:41.1 | of 700 people adopted 77 children. That means they increased the population of |
1:47.6 | possum trot by about 10%. Their remarkable journey was featured by Oprah Winfrey, the Today Show, |
1:53.6 | and numerous other media outlets. And now their story has been made into a powerful feature-length |
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