Unleashing the Possibilities for Children in Foster Care
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Ryan Bomberger, founder of The Radiance Foundation, reveals important research on abortion, dispels myths about adoption, and explains why more people should explore adoption from foster care. The discussion also promotes ways to support other adoptive families.
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| 0:00.0 | In those early years, when I came to know the Lord, he and his family were so |
| 0:07.3 | against it that they actually advised him to divorce me. |
| 0:12.5 | Joyce spent many lonely years trying to trust God and love her husband well. |
| 0:17.2 | Thankfully, she found the support and encouragement she needed. |
| 0:21.0 | I think that God just really used to focus on the family and your guys' ministry to |
| 0:26.0 | grow me and prepare me and guide my heart to live out in front of my husband what it means to follow Christ. |
| 0:35.8 | In the best news of all is that Joyce Husband also became a follower of Jesus. |
| 0:40.8 | I'm Jim Daley. When we work together, we can strengthen more marriages like Joyce and give |
| 0:46.2 | families hope. Please call 800 the letter A in the word family or donate at focusonthefamily.com |
| 0:53.0 | slash hope and your gift will be doubled. |
| 1:01.9 | Literally, if you look at evangelical and conservative Protestant congregations, |
| 1:06.8 | there are about 191,000 of them. If one family out of three of those, or if one family out of |
| 1:12.0 | 33% of all those evangelical and conservative churches adopted a child of the foster care system, |
| 1:18.2 | there would be no children waiting on that list. That's Ryan Bomberger and he's our guest today |
| 1:23.8 | on focusonthefamily. Scripture tells us that when we act on behalf of the least of these, |
| 1:29.9 | it's the same as if we were ministering to Christ himself. So we have a clear command to care for |
| 1:35.4 | children. We'll be talking about that today as we observe November as National Adoption Month |
| 1:41.2 | here in the U.S. and in Canada. Your host is focus president and author Jim Daley and I'm John Fuller. |
| 1:47.4 | John, there's over 400,000 children in foster care in the U.S. and of that number, about 120,000 |
| 1:54.9 | that are available for adoption. That's a big number. State by state, that 120,000 of course is |
| 2:00.7 | distributed into different states. And in Canada, there's about 30,000 children waiting to be adopted |
| 2:08.6 | out of their system there. So it is an opportunity for Christians to actually do the work of God |
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