Fostering our Faith

Christy shares her personal journey of growing up in foster care and later becoming a foster parent. She discusses the challenges and anxieties she faced as a child in the foster care system and the importance of providing a safe and nurturing environment for foster children. Christy also talks about her experience of taking in a newborn baby whose mother passed away and the eye-opening moments sh...

Sandra Flach, founder of Justice for Orphans, also an FASD Facilitator, shares her deep lived experience and extensive knowledge on this little known spectrum disorder. Listen in as she gives us tools to not only combat it, but how to get a diagnosis and where to go from there!

Carrie O’Toole, M.A. is an Attachment-Based Intervention Specialist, Board Certified Christian Life Coach, Certified Crisis Responder, and founder of Carrie O’Toole Ministries. Carrie uses her coaching, writing, speaking, podcasting, and documentary film to help others overcome issues related to attachment, trauma, and grief. The O’Toole family adopted a child from a Vietnamese orphanage at the ag...

Caitlyn is a foster and adoptive mom who has a heart for seeing communities mobilized and equipped to serve vulnerable people. She is passionate about advocating for and supporting children and families in the foster care system. Caitlyn has been married to her best friend for five years and enjoys traveling, trying new restaurants, and spending time outdoors. Her love for adventure and exploratio...

Allison Ezelle of Dwell Sleep Pediatrics is a certified sleep specialist. She is a biological, foster and adoptive mother who humbly admits that the reason that she started this journey was because she recognized an issue with her child's sleep and couldn't find the answers within her medical community. This sent her on a a quest that has given her an incredible amount of wisdom for her journey (a...

Mischelle Saunders-Gottschis the CEO/Founder of Altered Stories Ministry and Podcast Host of the Altered Stories Show. She is a wife to Mark, mother to her adult daughter, Tawny, Gigi to Bentley Rose, aunt, friend, speaker, ministry andbusiness leader and is passionateabout helping women to sharetheir God stories to help women overcome their struggles. Alteredstories.org

With this beautifully illustrated set of series, author Holly Marlow leads you and your child into a world of deeper understanding of their story. With easy to digest words and scenarios, we see how deeply loved the child is, the support system around them, and why safety issues can bring a child into care. You will see not only the support around the child, but the birth family as well, and the w...

Josie Anderson, is first a believer, and also a wife, foster mother, nurse practitioner, and marketing manager. She was first introduced to foster care as a CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocate) and family nurse practitioner before becoming a foster parent with her husband, Brooks. She is the face behind Foster The Valley, an online community designed to educate on topics such as child developme...

As a Neonatal Nurse Practitioner, Tara has many years of experience working with mothers and collaborating with community partners to improve neonatal outcomes and provide better support for mothers in recovery from opioid use disorders. As a nurse of over 27 years, she has cared for many babies with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome and has become an expert in treating them and their families. She has...

Leading international foster care expert, consultant, and TED Talk speaker, John Degarmo He the author of several foster care books, including the new book, “The Little Book of Foster Care Wisdom: 365 Days of Inspiration and Encouragement for Foster Care Families”, The best selling book, “Faith and Foster Care”, as well as the foster care children's book, “A Different Home: A New Foster Child's St...

Jessi graduated from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo with a B.S. in Child Development & Pre-Health with Minors in Psychology and Religious Studies. Jessi has formerly worked for Ventura County CFS and for CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates). Jessi was also the first Resident Director, or host parent, in the James Storehouse Transitional Home to four teen girls aging out of foster care (ages 18-2...

Adoption, foster care, and advocacy were not part of Jami's dreams for her life, but God changed her heart when He made her aware and she is passionate about helping others become aware too! She, and her husband Clint, are parents to their seven children (five through adoption). Jami is also the Founder and Executive Director of The Forgotten Initiative, host of The Forgotten Podcast, and Author o...

Paul Hastings is an award-winning podcaster, filmmaker, speaker, and entrepreneur. He is the host of " Compelled ", a podcast sharing unique stories about God transforming Christians around the world. His work has been featured by Dr. James Dobson's Family Talk, The Gospel Coalition, Christianity Today, World Magazine, American Family Association, and more. Paul, his wife, and their three children...

Jillana Goble is a speaker, author, and advocate. Together with her husband, Luke, she parents five children ranging in age from preteen to young adult. Jillana is the founder of an unprecedented initiative that has turned into a statewide movement called Every Child Oregon. In 2019, she published No Sugar-Coating, a book with practical suggestions and insight for prospective foster parents. She’s...

Natalie is a 2 time adoptive mother, whose son's diagnosis of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder led her on a journey she didn't see coming. Listen in as she tells us all about how she became an author, advocate, leader of an online community of people affected by FASD, and the host of an award winning podcast. FASD Hope - anywhere you find your podcasts FASD United - https://fasdunited.org/ FASCETS...