Discerning Your Family’s Call to Foster Care & Supporting the Other Kids in Your Home When it Gets Hard

In this episode, we explore foster care as family ministry and how everyone needs  to be willing to welcome a child into the home before we move forward. We share with you some of the patterns we see that lead to family's disrupting children from their home and encourage you to consider the children your family would be the best fit for. We give you some things to talk about as a family, inviting you to imagine the change your family will experience and figure out your family's "why"-the thing that will unite you together when it gets hard. Notice we didn't say if but when! Your family WILL experience the costs associated with entering into the hard and burdening yourself on behalf of someone else. When it gets tough, it's time to reach out to your people and lean in to care for the other children in your home so your whole family navigates this season of hard supporting one another. Because hard doesn't mean wrong. And in fact, it might be proof that you are exactly where God wants you to be.  

 

Episode references:

Supporting our Children After a New Placement resource booklet/audio recording: https://therestorenetwork.org/supporting-our-children-after-a-new-placement/

Unpacking What We Bring to the Relationship training module: https://therestorenetwork.thinkific.com/courses/whatwebring 

Connected Child Book: https://www.amazon.com/Connected-Child-healing-adoptive-family/dp/0071475001 

What Happened to You Book: https://www.amazon.com/What-Happened-You-Understanding-Resilience/dp/1250223180