When his wife became pregnant with their fourth child, Greg panicked, but a focus on the family counselor put everything into perspective.

He said, the first thing you need to realize that kids are a blessing or all of the

blessings that their gifts from God and the second thing you said was kid value

relationships not stuff. I'm Jim Daly let's give more families hope. Any gift you send will be doubled at

Focus on the Family.com slash gift. When you think about foster care, what comes to mind? Maybe you've heard statements like this.

Caring for a child like that will disrupt my family.

Foster parents are special people, only heroes can do it.

Those kids are damaged goods.

Well, today on focus on the family, we'll explore the world of foster care and what it means

to step up to the challenge and sacrifice and sacrifice love needy children.

Your host is Focus President and author Jim Daly and I'm John Fuller.

John, many of our listeners and viewers know that this topic is very close to my heart

because I lived it and I was a foster kid. My mom remarried when I was eight, she then died when I was nine and the stepdad left the day of the funeral and my siblings, some of my siblings and I ended up in foster care.

Not a great experience and so for that when probably 12, 13 years ago now we started Wait No More, which is a program to elevate the need of

foster here in the US and abroad.

And I'm thankful that a lot of children have been placed because of the great effort of the work here underweight no more.

Dr. Sharon Ford is head of that program.

But when you look at the numbers, I mean, there's about 400,000 children in foster care in a given year here in the US

about a hundred thousand the parental rights have been terminated they're looking

for placement but there's 360,000 churches in this country.

And so you do the math, it's almost if every church

would just help one child.

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