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The Minimal Mom

When solving a horrific problem is just simple math.

The Minimal Mom

Dawn Madsen

Self-improvement, Education:how To, Education, How To

4.8743 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

350,000 churches. 400,000 kids in the foster system. Listen in as Dawn talks with Trisha and Eric Porter of Backyard Orphans on their vision of how the church can solve this problem! IN THIS EPISODE: 0:00 - Intro  1:06 - How Eric and Trisha started Backyard Orphans  8:07 - How Backyard Orphans provides support for families wanting to foster  10:40 - How to take the stigma out of foster care  13:34 - Success stories  19:16 - Four ways to get involved in foster care  24:00 - Getting churches connected to agencies  33:50 - The best way to get involved in foster care  ABOUT TRISHA AND ERIC: Eric Porter is the founder and CEO of Backyard Orphans. This 501c3 interdenominational ministry is focused on engaging and equipping the church to care for hurting children in their own backyard. Since 2012, Eric and his wife Trisha have been in full-time orphan care ministry with the vision to train Church leaders to develop a foster care, adoption, and support ministry. LINKS:  Check out Backyard Orphans: https://backyardorphans.org/ Backyard Orphans IG: https://www.instagram.com/backyardorphans/ Welcome to The Official Minimal Mom Podcast. Thank you so much for listening and could I ask a favor? Would you mind following? It helps podcast apps recommend this podcast to more friends. Thank you! Dawn

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0:00.0

So then when I was like, hey, we're doing foster care and I could not believe the number of people are that like, oh no, what about your kids? Like what are you like what are you doing? Right? And I was like, wait, no, this is a good thing.

0:11.8

Welcome to the Minimal Mom podcast. Today, Dawn is joined by Eric Porter, the founder and CEO of backyard orphans. This 501C3 interdenominational ministry, is focused on engaging and equipping the church to care for hurting children in their own backyard.

0:28.6

Since 2012, Eric and his wife, Trisha, have been in full-time orphan care ministry with the vision to train church leaders to develop a foster care, adoption, and support ministry.

0:39.3

Well, so glad to have Eric and Tricia from Backyard Orphans with us. Foster care, orphans, all things

0:45.7

kids are so close to my heart. And so when I heard about what you guys were doing and how you're

0:50.7

trying to get the church together and say, hey, this is our problem to solve.

0:55.3

I just couldn't help, but say, hey, I want to get to know you guys.

0:58.6

I want to help spread the word of what you're doing because it is so powerful.

1:02.9

So why don't you tell us a little bit about your background.

1:05.4

How did you become passionate about this topic?

1:08.6

Well, I mean, here's the skinny is that we decided before we're married,

1:12.9

we're going to have four kids. And then after child three, I was like, we're not going to have any more

1:17.8

kids. But I had had some really, really rough pregnancies, you know, just really, really

1:25.1

sick and all that. And so, but then it was like God was

1:28.7

moving on our heart set. We really did want a fourth child. Well, our church had a orphan care

1:34.1

ministry called Cherish Kids, and it was to promote foster care and adoption and all of that.

1:39.0

And that awareness piece really did work because we were, I was like, babe, what if we adopt our fourth

1:46.4

instead of, you know, birthing a biological child? I'm like, I've already done the baby thing. Like,

1:50.9

we can adopt even an older kid, you know? And so, um, he was like, well, that's really great.

1:57.1

Which I think is a typical guy response. Yeah. I was like, I'm not really feeling that.

2:00.9

You know, like, you know me. If God says we should, then I will. Well, then that weekend,

2:06.5

God spoke to his heart and I'll save all the details, but he was like, I think that we're supposed

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