Witnessing Hope: How Compassion Transforms Families :: Nicki Koziarz [Ep 528]
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🗓️ 23 June 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Knox and I recently had the incredible opportunity to go on a Compassion International vision trip to El Salvador. Today, I’m joined by my friend Nicki Koziarz to help recap this life-changing experience.
Nicki is an author, Bible teacher, and podcaster—and also a mom of six, including three boys adopted from Haiti. She brings a powerful perspective on the global impact Compassion is making and the heartbreaking reality that, in many cases, poverty is the only reason a mother has to give up her child.
We dive into how Compassion is partnering with local churches to go into the hardest places—providing food, medical care, and the hope of Christ to transform lives and futures. Nicki also shares about their amazing Survival Program, which walks alongside mothers from pregnancy through a child’s first year, ensuring families have the support they need to stay together when possible.
I’m so grateful for the chance to witness firsthand what God is doing through Compassion in El Salvador—and I can't wait to share more with you in this episode.
Connect with Nicki Koziarz:
- Website: Nicki Koziarz – Author | Speaker | Bible Teacher
- Facebook: Nicki Koziarz
- Instagram: nickikoziarz
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, y'all, welcome back to the Don't Mom Alone podcast. |
| 0:10.2 | I'm your host, Heather McFadion, and this is the place where I get to walk alongside you |
| 0:14.1 | and connect you with people and resources so you know that you don't mom alone. |
| 0:18.9 | And in this episode number 528, I'm welcoming back to the show, |
| 0:23.6 | Nikki Cozyars. We are brothers and sisters in Christ, and the Bible and Acts says that in |
| 0:31.8 | those days, nobody was without anything that they needed and they gave. And so, you know, there's things that we need and there's things that they need. |
| 0:40.1 | It's more of like, you know, the things that we may need here in the United States |
| 0:45.6 | doesn't look as physical as what is needed in a country like El Salvador. |
| 0:50.8 | But may we never communicate the message that we don't all need Jesus. |
| 0:56.3 | Nikki came on the podcast, believe it or not, nine years ago in May of 2016. |
| 1:03.0 | And oh my goodness, can you think about all that's happened maybe in your own life? |
| 1:06.4 | I know in mine in those last nine years. |
| 1:08.5 | Well, you will hear more about what's gone on in Nikki's life. |
| 1:12.0 | And way back then, we didn't know that we would be on the same trip to El Salvador with |
| 1:16.5 | Compassion International and several other people from the Proverbs 31 team. And we'd get to share it |
| 1:23.0 | with our own kids. Nikki had her daughter Taylor there, who now works for compassion. |
| 1:27.3 | And I was able to bring |
| 1:28.5 | Knox my youngest son. And before we get into all of that, I wanted to have you go look at the show |
| 1:34.3 | notes and go to Nikki's website because there's so much goodness going on over there. There's links to |
| 1:38.7 | her podcast, which is called Lessons from the Farm. She's a mom of three biological daughters |
| 1:44.0 | and three sons adopted from |
| 1:46.2 | Haiti. And you will hear more that story in this episode. She also has some great courses. |
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