
WHAT YOU WILL HEAR
“[Foster care] is not just about bringing a child into your home. It’s about bringing your family into another family.”
I could not think of a better way to say it than Jamie Finn’s words. Friends, we are kicking off a 4-part series for National Foster Care Month and I am beyond excited to welcome Jamie Finn of Foster The Family on The Happy Hour. Jamie C. Finn is the author of Foster the Family and executive director of Foster the Family. Her social media accounts offer a glimpse into the real life of a foster parent and provide encouragement to thousands of foster parents. Jamie is passionate about encouraging and equipping foster and adoptive parents and advocating for vulnerable children and families.
Y’all, Jamie shared so many truth bombs so I’m giving you a heads up right now to grab a pen and paper. We talked about hard things like the joy of loving a child and the pain of saying goodbye, repenting of sinful thoughts relating to parents of foster children, and how important it is to be trauma-informed when stepping into these broken places. Anything that involves Kingdom work will have suffering, but we have to trust what God says about suffering. Foster care is God using people to play a part in families being healed. This is important work, and I can’t wait to share the rest of these conversations with you.
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LINKS FROM THE SHOW
- Foster the Family
- Foster the Family, book
- Foster the Family Blog
- Fostered book, Tori Hope Petersen
- Tori Hope Petersen’s Instagram
- Patoya Hall
- Whitney Furr
- Mother’s Day Gift Guide
- Brittany Salmon Happy Hour episode
- The Middle Mom book
- Radical by David Platt
- What Happened to You
- The Body Keeps The Score
- Connected Child, Connected Parent
- Worth It on Buzzfeed
- Vans
- Paul McCartney concert
- Elisabeth Elliot’s Biography
- The Lincoln Highway
- Deeper by Dane Ortlund
- Mother to Son by Jasmine Holmes
- The Gravity of Joy
- Filled Retreat
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