{"id":302800,"date":"2013-08-20T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/%series%\/fostering-23-kids\/"},"modified":"2013-08-20T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T15:00:00","slug":"fostering-23-kids","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/fostering-23-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Fostering 23 Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michele Bachmann encourages the church to consider opening homes to one foster child for one year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":294104,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"https:\/\/web.familylifetoday.com\/fl2013-08-20.mp3","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"00:","filesize":"30.14M","filesize_raw":"31600840","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":""},"categories":[2818],"tags":[2712,5300],"podcast_series":[],"cwp_profile":[9312],"series":[2101],"class_list":["post-302800","podcast","type-podcast","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adoption-and-orphans","tag-adoption","tag-fostering","cwp_profile-michele-bachmann","series-familylife-today"],"acf":[],"episode_featured_image":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1001\/2024\/09\/FLT-Podcast-Cover-2-508x508-3.jpg?w=508","episode_player_image":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1001\/2023\/02\/image-scaled.jpg","download_link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast-download\/302800\/fostering-23-kids","player_link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast-player\/302800\/fostering-23-kids","audio_player":null,"episode_data":{"playerMode":"light","subscribeUrls":{"apple_podcasts":{"key":"apple_podcasts","url":"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/familylife-today\/id212174303?mt=2&app=podcast","label":"Apple Podcasts","class":"apple_podcasts","icon":"apple-podcasts.png"},"google_podcasts":{"key":"google_podcasts","url":"","label":"Google Podcasts","class":"google_podcasts","icon":"google-podcasts.png"},"spotify":{"key":"spotify","url":"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/0j5UaKdQOHQCuo1bt0ebEm","label":"Spotify","class":"spotify","icon":"spotify.png"},"youtube":{"key":"youtube","url":"","label":"YouTube","class":"youtube","icon":"youtube.png"}},"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/feed\/podcast\/familylife-today","embedCode":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"u4QYW7AOou\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/fostering-23-kids\/\">Fostering 23 Kids<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/fostering-23-kids\/embed\/#?secret=u4QYW7AOou\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" title=\"&#8220;Fostering 23 Kids&#8221; &#8212; FamilyLife\u00ae - A Cru Ministry\" data-secret=\"u4QYW7AOou\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script>\n\/*! 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The experience was profound for everyone.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michele:<\/strong>\u00a0 Our biological children learned so much. They learned that they are not the only people in the world\u2014that the world is far bigger than they are or their home. Our foster children learned that they\u2019re valuable and that they are worthy. We learned, as parents, a very important lesson that we didn\u2019t realize. We felt, with our little tiny babies, that they could never need us more than when they were babies. Our foster children taught us that children need you <em>more<\/em> when they\u2019re older. That\u2019s counter-intuitive\u2014that they need us more.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 This is a special edition of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> taped in front of a live studio audience for Tuesday, August 20<sup>th<\/sup>. Our host is the President of FamilyLife<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, Dennis Rainey, and I'm Bob Lepine.\u00a0 We\u2019ll talk to Congresswoman Michele Bachmann today about her experience as a foster mom. Stay tuned.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[Recorded Message]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd welcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. Thanks for joining us. This is a little bit of a treat for us. We don\u2019t normally do a <em>FamilyLife Today <\/em>program with a studio audience. Actually, this happens to be the largest studio audience we have ever had for a <em>FamilyLife Today <\/em>program. [Audience cheers]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe are at the Christian Alliance for Orphans Summit IX. All of the folks you just heard cheering have a heart, like the heart you and I have, for the orphan crisis in the world\u2014140 million orphans, worldwide.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 That\u2019s right, and it sold out\u2014had to get a ticket. If you walked up to the door, you didn\u2019t get one. We\u2019re thrilled to have over 2,500 here. I think what\u2019s happening today, around the orphan issue, really needs to be traced back to our Savior\u2019s words in the Sermon on the Mount. He said this\u2014and I think you\u2019re about to see an illustration of that, here, as we do our interview: \u201cYou are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden, nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe\u2019re about to interview someone who has set her light out for people to be able to see, reflecting the image of Christ and God\u2019s heart for the orphan.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 That\u2019s interesting. Our focus is going to be, in this interview, on foster care. We should just mention that that is kind of close to your heart. One of your kids has been a foster mom; right? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes, seated right down here, on the right\u2014proud of her\u2014Ashley and her husband, Michael. They have five sons, 13 and under. One of them is there\u2014Samuel. Good to see you. And they have cared for a dozen foster care kids, in their home, in the past three or four years. [Applause]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 And the foster care mom we\u2019re going to meet here, this morning, has cared for 23 foster children over her lifetime.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 And she has a day job.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, somebody told me, backstage, that she\u2019s been involved in some kind of public service job, as well; right? [Audience laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I think that\u2019s right. Would you welcome, with me, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann to the stage? [Applause]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michele:<\/strong>\u00a0 Thank you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Michele and her husband Marcus have been married since 1978. They have five children. They\u2019re celebrating the empty nest as of last fall.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michele:<\/strong>\u00a0 And it is so great! [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 It\u2019s cool; isn\u2019t it?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michele:<\/strong>\u00a0 It is. It really is.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 We thought parenthood is good, too; right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michele:<\/strong>\u00a0 Oh, of course, it was great; but this is better. [Laughter] You said, \u201cBe honest.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 I\u2019m with you. There you are\u2014I\u2019m with you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I want you to take us back to your own family\u2014that you grew up in\u2014because that\u2019s where your heart for foster care really was first touched. You\u2019d really not thought about it as a young person, growing up; but your family really had an interesting twist, back a number of years ago, when you were a little girl.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michele:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes. It did. My immediate family did. I just want to give, by way of background\u2014my mother was, actually, kind of an informal foster child. She was the seventh child, born in 1931, at the height of the depression. Her parents couldn\u2019t even afford food for the kids. The kids had to leave home when they were 12 and become hired hands. A local farm family took her in, but it was informal. It wasn\u2019t through the formal process. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhen I was a little girl, my parents got divorced. We were a middle-class family. When my parents got divorced, when I was about 12, literally, our family lost everything, overnight. We had a suburban home. We lost our income; we lost our home. I will never forget all of our things\u2014out on the driveway\u2014being sold, in a garage sale, on the driveway. We moved into\u2014we downsized into a little apartment. We were eligible for public assistance. My mom said\u2014this is not judgmental to anyone\u2014but my mom said: \u201cNo one in our family has ever taken public assistance. We won\u2019t.\u201d So, she got a job. My brothers got jobs. I was babysitting. Everybody did what we could. We just didn\u2019t buy anything. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMy grandma would bring us food whenever she could, and we just made it. It was quite a few years where we just didn\u2019t have much; but little by little, you grow out. We put ourselves through college\u2014each one of us. We just did what you do in this great land of opportunity.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 And you met the Savior at age 16.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michele:<\/strong>\u00a0 I did, yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 And that began to touch your heart about what really has grabbed the Father\u2019s heart\u2014the orphan and the plight of the orphan.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michele:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 But it took having two children, in your marriage with Marcus; and then, an event that occurred\u2014the miscarriage that, ultimately, really opened your heart up to, not only being pro-life, but pro-orphan.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michele:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes, you\u2019re right. We were believers. We didn\u2019t think of ourselves as materialistic or career-minded; but when we lost our third baby\u2014and it was a miscarriage\u2014something that people think is, \u201cOh, an everyday-thing,\u201d because it is fairly frequent\u2014but it just completely changed us. In fact, so much so that, when I had the miscarriage, I didn\u2019t speak for three days afterwards because something hit me inside about how <em>profound<\/em> life is. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMarcus and I just fell in each other\u2019s arms. We were weeping; and we said to the Lord, \u201cWe will receive however many children you want us to have.\u201d\u00a0 We went on to have three more biological children; and then, the Lord opened our heart in a different way\u2014unlike we ever thought would happen. We ended up being blessed by taking 23 more children into our home\u2014but that was through foster care\u2014not through our physical bodies.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 What was the springboard for that for you? What was it that made you and Marcus look at each other and say, \u201cLet\u2019s bring that little girl home.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michele:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, we had another great couple that we would do things with, in our church. We went over to their house one night, and we were just having fun together. There was a teenage girl in the house. We said, \u201cWho is she, and what is the relationship?\u201d They said that she was a foster child that they had taken in, and she was an unwed mom. She was about to have a baby. They were going to help her\u2014mentor her through this process of being a new mom. Marcus and I went home that night, and our hearts were absolutely broken. We had biological children\u2014little ones. We looked at each other, and I was expecting baby number four. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI was going to be home, full-time, at that point. Marcus was doing his graduate work, and I was trying to work; but things were changing. He was able to open his practice; and I was able to be home, full-time. So, we thought, \u201cYou know what? If I\u2019m staying home, full-time, and all four children, why not have more?\u201d So, we decided to go ahead and become foster parents. Seemed like a good idea, at the time! So, we went through the process. All of a sudden, we got our first child. That was it.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Tell us about that first girl you brought home.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes, she was\u2014wasn\u2019t she homeless at the time?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michele:<\/strong>\u00a0 She was homeless. She was at a homeless shelter.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 You described her suitcase that she brought.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michele:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes. You know those little \u201cGoing to Grandma\u2019s for the Weekend\u201d suitcases? They\u2019re real tiny. She had a suitcase like that. She was 16 years old\u2014<em>beautiful<\/em> little girl, sitting on the edge of a couch, big smile on her face, but a real tiny little girl. I took her home, and I put her in her room. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI opened up the suitcase. There was one little shirt in it, and that was it. I looked at her shoes; and I said, \u201cMichelle, let me see your shoes.\u201d She showed me her shoes. She had size six feet, but the shoes were almost a size nine. So, that was the first step and how it started. We were scared to death. We\u2019d never done this before because our biological children were babies. They were little ones. We didn\u2019t have teenagers; and so now, we had a teenager coming in. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe didn\u2019t know if we could do this, but we took one child. Probably, about a month or so later, we got a call. Would we take another? We thought: \u201cThis is going well. Let\u2019s do it<em>.<\/em>\u201d So, we took another one in. Usually, you have nine months to prepare for something like this, you know; but now, we had two teenage girls\u2014one bathroom was completely spoken for, all the time; and so, we had to figure that out. Then, we got a call\u2014would we take another one? So, then, we had three.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 You had to buy a bigger table, too.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michele:<\/strong>\u00a0 Oh, that\u2019s coming! We did have to do that. Actually, we had to blow a wall out and increase the size of the kitchen. Then we got a call\u2014would we take another one? That was <em>four<\/em> foster children. Then, by that time, I was expecting our <em>fifth<\/em> biological child. At that point, then, when the newborn came home, we had no more seats left at the table. We were done! \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOne person had to stand up when we ate, and that was not going to happen! So, we called our favorite handyman. He blew the wall out of the kitchen, and we moved it back. We put in a fireplace, and a huge, huge table, and a sectional. It ended up being the place that we lived <em>our entire life<\/em>.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 My daughter, Ashley, has made a statement on more than one occasion. She mentions that she\u2019s cared for a dozen foster care kids. The most common response she gets is, \u201cOh, I could never do that!\u201d Would you just comment on that statement, \u201cI could never do that,\u201d\u2014how God enables someone, who is available, to do that?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michele:<\/strong> Well, you just answered the question. That\u2019s the answer. Marcus and I felt the same way, \u201cWe could never do that,\u201d when we first\u2014actually, the thought hit us. But I\u2019ll tell you what the Lord did\u2014is He broke our heart because we recognize, in this sin-soaked world, ever since Adam and Eve fell, that all of us are, in some sense, a foster child. The Lord has grafted us into His trunk. Why wouldn\u2019t we do that and be that Balm of Gilead for anyone that He brings our way? He enables us in everything that we do.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 With having 23 come into your family, there had to be a couple of moments, that were snapshot moments, that you wish you could just grab and keep forever, in terms of how your family reached out and loved a child in need. Could you share one or two of those with us\u2014just a couple of your favorites?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michele:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes. They did it for us, too\u2014they loved <em>us,<\/em> too. I think one of the great joys was watching them. We never asked them to babysit our little ones. We didn\u2019t ask them to be servants in the home, if you will; but on their own, they loved those little kids. It was <em>amazing<\/em> how therapeutic the little ones were for the old ones, and the older ones for the younger ones\u2014just to watch them grab the kids and go outside on the swing set, or go out and play baseball, or teach one of the kids how to ride a bike. That was a <em>beautiful<\/em> thing.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOne moment, in particular, when we brought our biological number five home\u2014one girl that we never, ever would have thought this would happen to\u2014I was in the hospital, having this new baby. One of our foster children ran away. I got the call from Marcus that she was gone. We had to let the social worker, the police, and everyone know that she\u2019d left. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThis is kind of a chaotic thing to happen, at a point like that. What we found out is\u2014that we felt she was the most well-adjusted of all the foster children\u2014but what we found out is\u2014she felt, when we brought this new baby home, that we wouldn\u2019t love her anymore\u2014that we\u2019d love this new baby, and it wouldn\u2019t be about her. We were able to have her come back home. She was able to see that we could add to the family and that doesn\u2019t mean a diminished love for her. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe got her through that rocky patch. The good thing is she was able to feel accepted, and go on in her life, and get jobs, and go to college, and realize the life. A lot of foster children don\u2019t graduate from high school. Our job was to make sure everyone did graduate from high school and successfully launch. It\u2019s to their credit\u2014all of them did. They are all success stories! [Applause]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Good. That\u2019s good. Michele, you work in the public policy arena. I want you to take that hat off and put on your hat, as being a mom and a wife, who has now experienced this dimension of foster care. Just speak to these, here, who are gathered together, at the grassroots, to make a difference on behalf of the orphan. Talk about how important they are to what\u2019s going to happen for the orphan because government can only go so far.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michele:<\/strong>\u00a0 That\u2019s true.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 It really is, I think, the task of the Church\u2014the local church\u2014to address the needs of orphans. There are a-half-million children in foster care today\u2014more than 100,000 could be adopted. The only institution, in America, that\u2019s large enough to address that is the local church.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michele:<\/strong> And that\u2019s how we were introduced to foster care\u2014through some of our friends, in church, who had actually stepped out and taken a child into their home. They risked it. Imagine, you said 500,000 children are in that situation. Now, imagine\u2014rather than taking 23 children\u2014that may just be way, way beyond anything anyone could imagine\u2014but imagine taking one. Imagine taking one for one year or for two years. Imagine the life that you could touch during that time. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe are a very imperfect people and a very imperfect family, but what we felt we could do is offer the picture of what a family looks like: where a mom and a dad love each other. The dad gets up and goes to work in the morning. He comes home at night. He kisses the mom. The house has some semblance of order, most of the time, hopefully. We sit down at a meal that I make, and we pray before that meal. You do the chores. You go to bed. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThat seems normal; doesn\u2019t it? That seems like normal life. I\u2019m here to tell you\u2014there are children, across the United States\u2014for whom that is not normal life! Can you <em>imagine<\/em> what you would do if you could give a picture of normal-functioning life to a child, even for a window in their life, so they could know what that\u2019s like, and take that with them, and realize the joy that comes through that? Then, they may want to go out and replicate that lifestyle. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThat\u2019s something that we can do! It really is the Church because it emanates from a heart of love. Out of a heart of humility, we reach out\u2014we bring children in and give whatever it is we can. Maybe, it isn\u2019t long-term. Maybe, it isn\u2019t more than one; but it\u2019s something that each person can do. We <em>have<\/em> that many churches. We <em>have<\/em> that many families.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAt some point, maybe, the Lord would touch your heart to be open because our biological children learned so much. They learned that they are not the only people in the world\u2014that the world is far bigger than they are or their home. Our foster children learned that they\u2019re valuable and that they are worthy. We learned, as parents, a very important lesson that we didn\u2019t realize. We felt that, with our little tiny babies, that they could never need us more than when they are babies. Our foster children taught us that children need you more when they\u2019re older. That\u2019s counter-intuitive, but they need us more. They need to know that we know who they are\u2014we\u2019re invested in them, their friends, where their life is at. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOur foster children\u2014I can\u2019t thank enough\u2014because they prepared Marcus and me to be even better parents for our biological children when our biological children came through. Our kids all know the Lord; they walk with the Lord. As far as we\u2019re concerned, that\u2019s the greatest legacy we will ever have. We are happy people, very happy. [Applause]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 I just wish you had a little more passion about this subject, you know? [Laughter] Get a little fired-up.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes. You\u2019re doing this because, once, you were an orphan.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michele:<\/strong>\u00a0 Amen; amen! That\u2019s right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 And the Heavenly Father adopted you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michele:<\/strong>\u00a0 That\u2019s right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 And I think it\u2019s why it\u2019s referred to in James 1 as \u201cpure and undefiled religion\u201d because God\u2019s heart is for the orphan. It\u2019s a good thing because all of us start out as spiritual orphans, in need of redemption through Jesus Christ.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMichele, I think you have let your light shine before others so they\u2019ve seen your good works, and they are glorifying our Heavenly Father.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michele:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, you can\u2019t do it without a great husband. I have to give credit to my husband, Marcus. I mean, how many men would be willing to be a foster father to an additional 23 kids? He\u2019s a pretty incredible man! I thank God for him.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes, really very important. Out of everything you\u2019ve done in your lifetime, what\u2019s the most courageous thing you\u2019ve ever done?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michele:<\/strong>\u00a0 That\u2019s a good question. Honestly, it would be receiving the free gift of Jesus. That is not meant to be a clich\u00e9. I don\u2019t mean it as a clich\u00e9, but the Lord very seriously knocked on my heart\u2019s door when I was 16. That is the biggest step anybody ever takes because it\u2019s going from darkness to light. You don\u2019t know what this is all about, but the Holy Spirit very intentionally called me in. I thank God that He rescued me, at that point, in my life. Without a doubt, that was the most courageous decision because that\u2019s eternal. [Applause]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, I thank you for being obedient to Jesus Christ. As we go near the orphan, we get near the heart of God.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michele:<\/strong>\u00a0 Amen.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 We think we come\u2014bringing love, thinking we\u2019re going to be kind of the heroes to the orphan\u2014but in essence, we find out that the orphan teaches us a whole lot about love.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michele:<\/strong>\u00a0 Oh, you\u2019re exactly right. I just want to add one thing. Our daughter also has a broken heart toward orphans. She\u2019s a full-time missionary in an orphanage in Haiti. She has been changed, forever, by being involved in this ministry. That\u2019s another thing the Church can do\u2014is go on short-term and long-term mission trips. If your heart isn\u2019t broken yet, it will be if you go and visit an orphanage.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Go near the orphan. You\u2019ll find the heart of God there.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michele:<\/strong>\u00a0 Amen.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Barbara and I did. Our daughter, Deborah\u2014who is here, too\u201430 years ago, we adopted her\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michele:<\/strong>\u00a0 Oh, praise the Lord. Praise the Lord\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 \u2014and it\u2019s a great privilege. Michele\u2014thank you for being with us.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michele:<\/strong>\u00a0 Thank you, Dennis. Thank you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Thank Michele Bachmann; will you? [Applause]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michele:<\/strong>\u00a0 Thank you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[Studio]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 You know, as we had our conversation with Michele Bachmann, back a few months ago, at the Christian Alliance for Orphans Summit in Nashville, back in May, the people who were in the room were inspired, I think, by Michele\u2019s example and by what she had to share. If you find yourself, listening today, thinking to yourself, \u201cMaybe, we ought to consider foster parenting or foster adoption,\u201d our Hope for Orphans<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> team has put together a new resource called <em>Safe Harbor: A Christian\u2019s Guide to Foster Parenting and Adoption\u2122<\/em>\u2014a brand-new resource that\u2019s been created, specifically, to address the unique issues that are associated with foster parenting and with foster adoption.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIf you go to FamilyLifeToday.com, there is a link available there. It will take you right to a place where you can download, for free, this new resource from the Hope for Orphans team. Again, go to FamilyLifeToday.com. Click on the link and download the <em>Safe Harbor: A Christian\u2019s Guide to Foster Parenting and Adoption<\/em> resource that the Hope for Orphans team has put together. Of course, they have a variety of resources on every aspect of adoption, foster parenting, and how every one of us can be involved in caring for the needs of orphans, in our country, and all around the world. Again, the website: FamilyLifeToday.com. If we can help you by phone, give us a call at 1-800-FL-TODAY; that\u2019s 1-800-\u201cF\u201d as in family, \u201cL\u201d as in life, and then, the word, \u201cTODAY\u201d.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow, we have a lot of our listeners, over the last 24 hours, who have gotten in touch with us, after hearing about the special offer that our friends at Logos Bible Software are making for <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> listeners this week. I just wanted to remind folks: \u201cIf you are interested in any of their packages, you need to get in touch with us before Saturday because the special offer\u2014the 20 percent savings off of any of their Bible study libraries\u2014that\u2019s available between now and Saturday. 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The experience was profound for everyone.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michele:<\/strong>\u00a0 Our biological children learned so much. They learned that they are not the only people in the world\u2014that the world is far bigger than they are or their home. Our foster children learned that they\u2019re valuable and that they are worthy. We learned, as parents, a very important lesson that we didn\u2019t realize. We felt, with our little tiny babies, that they could never need us more than when they were babies. Our foster children taught us that children need you <em>more<\/em> when they\u2019re older. That\u2019s counter-intuitive\u2014that they need us more.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 This is a special edition of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> taped in front of a live studio audience for Tuesday, August 20<sup>th<\/sup>. Our host is the President of FamilyLife<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, Dennis Rainey, and I'm Bob Lepine.\u00a0 We\u2019ll talk to Congresswoman Michele Bachmann today about her experience as a foster mom. Stay tuned.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[Recorded Message]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd welcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. Thanks for joining us. This is a little bit of a treat for us. We don\u2019t normally do a <em>FamilyLife Today <\/em>program with a studio audience. Actually, this happens to be the largest studio audience we have ever had for a <em>FamilyLife Today <\/em>program. [Audience cheers]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe are at the Christian Alliance for Orphans Summit IX. All of the folks you just heard cheering have a heart, like the heart you and I have, for the orphan crisis in the world\u2014140 million orphans, worldwide.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 That\u2019s right, and it sold out\u2014had to get a ticket. If you walked up to the door, you didn\u2019t get one. We\u2019re thrilled to have over 2,500 here. I think what\u2019s happening today, around the orphan issue, really needs to be traced back to our Savior\u2019s words in the Sermon on the Mount. He said this\u2014and I think you\u2019re about to see an illustration of that, here, as we do our interview: \u201cYou are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden, nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe\u2019re about to interview someone who has set her light out for people to be able to see, reflecting the image of Christ and God\u2019s heart for the orphan.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 That\u2019s interesting. Our focus is going to be, in this interview, on foster care. We should just mention that that is kind of close to your heart. One of your kids has been a foster mom; right? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes, seated right down here, on the right\u2014proud of her\u2014Ashley and her husband, Michael. They have five sons, 13 and under. One of them is there\u2014Samuel. Good to see you. And they have cared for a dozen foster care kids, in their home, in the past three or four years. [Applause]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 And the foster care mom we\u2019re going to meet here, this morning, has cared for 23 foster children over her lifetime.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 And she has a day job.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, somebody told me, backstage, that she\u2019s been involved in some kind of public service job, as well; right? [Audience laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I think that\u2019s right. Would you welcome, with me, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann to the stage? [Applause]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michele:<\/strong>\u00a0 Thank you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Michele and her husband Marcus have been married since 1978. They have five children. They\u2019re celebrating the empty nest as of last fall.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michele:<\/strong>\u00a0 And it is so great! [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 It\u2019s cool; isn\u2019t it?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michele:<\/strong>\u00a0 It is. It really is.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 We thought parenthood is good, too; right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michele:<\/strong>\u00a0 Oh, of course, it was great; but this is better. [Laughter] You said, \u201cBe honest.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 I\u2019m with you. There you are\u2014I\u2019m with you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I want you to take us back to your own family\u2014that you grew up in\u2014because that\u2019s where your heart for foster care really was first touched. You\u2019d really not thought about it as a young person, growing up; but your family really had an interesting twist, back a number of years ago, when you were a little girl.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michele:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes. It did. My immediate family did. I just want to give, by way of background\u2014my mother was, actually, kind of an informal foster child. She was the seventh child, born in 1931, at the height of the depression. Her parents couldn\u2019t even afford food for the kids. The kids had to leave home when they were 12 and become hired hands. A local farm family took her in, but it was informal. It wasn\u2019t through the formal process. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhen I was a little girl, my parents got divorced. We were a middle-class family. When my parents got divorced, when I was about 12, literally, our family lost everything, overnight. We had a suburban home. We lost our income; we lost our home. I will never forget all of our things\u2014out on the driveway\u2014being sold, in a garage sale, on the driveway. We moved into\u2014we downsized into a little apartment. We were eligible for public assistance. My mom said\u2014this is not judgmental to anyone\u2014but my mom said: \u201cNo one in our family has ever taken public assistance. We won\u2019t.\u201d So, she got a job. My brothers got jobs. I was babysitting. Everybody did what we could. We just didn\u2019t buy anything. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMy grandma would bring us food whenever she could, and we just made it. It was quite a few years where we just didn\u2019t have much; but little by little, you grow out. We put ourselves through college\u2014each one of us. We just did what you do in this great land of opportunity.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 And you met the Savior at age 16.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michele:<\/strong>\u00a0 I did, yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 And that began to touch your heart about what really has grabbed the Father\u2019s heart\u2014the orphan and the plight of the orphan.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michele:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 But it took having two children, in your marriage with Marcus; and then, an event that occurred\u2014the miscarriage that, ultimately, really opened your heart up to, not only being pro-life, but pro-orphan.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michele:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes, you\u2019re right. We were believers. We didn\u2019t think of ourselves as materialistic or career-minded; but when we lost our third baby\u2014and it was a miscarriage\u2014something that people think is, \u201cOh, an everyday-thing,\u201d because it is fairly frequent\u2014but it just completely changed us. In fact, so much so that, when I had the miscarriage, I didn\u2019t speak for three days afterwards because something hit me inside about how <em>profound<\/em> life is. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMarcus and I just fell in each other\u2019s arms. We were weeping; and we said to the Lord, \u201cWe will receive however many children you want us to have.\u201d\u00a0 We went on to have three more biological children; and then, the Lord opened our heart in a different way\u2014unlike we ever thought would happen. We ended up being blessed by taking 23 more children into our home\u2014but that was through foster care\u2014not through our physical bodies.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 What was the springboard for that for you? What was it that made you and Marcus look at each other and say, \u201cLet\u2019s bring that little girl home.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michele:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, we had another great couple that we would do things with, in our church. We went over to their house one night, and we were just having fun together. There was a teenage girl in the house. We said, \u201cWho is she, and what is the relationship?\u201d They said that she was a foster child that they had taken in, and she was an unwed mom. She was about to have a baby. They were going to help her\u2014mentor her through this process of being a new mom. Marcus and I went home that night, and our hearts were absolutely broken. We had biological children\u2014little ones. We looked at each other, and I was expecting baby number four. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI was going to be home, full-time, at that point. Marcus was doing his graduate work, and I was trying to work; but things were changing. He was able to open his practice; and I was able to be home, full-time. So, we thought, \u201cYou know what? If I\u2019m staying home, full-time, and all four children, why not have more?\u201d So, we decided to go ahead and become foster parents. Seemed like a good idea, at the time! So, we went through the process. All of a sudden, we got our first child. That was it.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Tell us about that first girl you brought home.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes, she was\u2014wasn\u2019t she homeless at the time?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michele:<\/strong>\u00a0 She was homeless. 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We didn\u2019t have teenagers; and so now, we had a teenager coming in. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe didn\u2019t know if we could do this, but we took one child. Probably, about a month or so later, we got a call. Would we take another? We thought: \u201cThis is going well. Let\u2019s do it<em>.<\/em>\u201d So, we took another one in. Usually, you have nine months to prepare for something like this, you know; but now, we had two teenage girls\u2014one bathroom was completely spoken for, all the time; and so, we had to figure that out. Then, we got a call\u2014would we take another one? So, then, we had three.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 You had to buy a bigger table, too.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michele:<\/strong>\u00a0 Oh, that\u2019s coming! We did have to do that. Actually, we had to blow a wall out and increase the size of the kitchen. Then we got a call\u2014would we take another one? That was <em>four<\/em> foster children. Then, by that time, I was expecting our <em>fifth<\/em> biological child. At that point, then, when the newborn came home, we had no more seats left at the table. We were done! \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOne person had to stand up when we ate, and that was not going to happen! So, we called our favorite handyman. He blew the wall out of the kitchen, and we moved it back. We put in a fireplace, and a huge, huge table, and a sectional. It ended up being the place that we lived <em>our entire life<\/em>.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 My daughter, Ashley, has made a statement on more than one occasion. She mentions that she\u2019s cared for a dozen foster care kids. The most common response she gets is, \u201cOh, I could never do that!\u201d Would you just comment on that statement, \u201cI could never do that,\u201d\u2014how God enables someone, who is available, to do that?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michele:<\/strong> Well, you just answered the question. That\u2019s the answer. Marcus and I felt the same way, \u201cWe could never do that,\u201d when we first\u2014actually, the thought hit us. But I\u2019ll tell you what the Lord did\u2014is He broke our heart because we recognize, in this sin-soaked world, ever since Adam and Eve fell, that all of us are, in some sense, a foster child. The Lord has grafted us into His trunk. Why wouldn\u2019t we do that and be that Balm of Gilead for anyone that He brings our way? He enables us in everything that we do.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 With having 23 come into your family, there had to be a couple of moments, that were snapshot moments, that you wish you could just grab and keep forever, in terms of how your family reached out and loved a child in need. Could you share one or two of those with us\u2014just a couple of your favorites?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michele:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes. They did it for us, too\u2014they loved <em>us,<\/em> too. I think one of the great joys was watching them. We never asked them to babysit our little ones. We didn\u2019t ask them to be servants in the home, if you will; but on their own, they loved those little kids. It was <em>amazing<\/em> how therapeutic the little ones were for the old ones, and the older ones for the younger ones\u2014just to watch them grab the kids and go outside on the swing set, or go out and play baseball, or teach one of the kids how to ride a bike. That was a <em>beautiful<\/em> thing.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOne moment, in particular, when we brought our biological number five home\u2014one girl that we never, ever would have thought this would happen to\u2014I was in the hospital, having this new baby. One of our foster children ran away. I got the call from Marcus that she was gone. We had to let the social worker, the police, and everyone know that she\u2019d left. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThis is kind of a chaotic thing to happen, at a point like that. What we found out is\u2014that we felt she was the most well-adjusted of all the foster children\u2014but what we found out is\u2014she felt, when we brought this new baby home, that we wouldn\u2019t love her anymore\u2014that we\u2019d love this new baby, and it wouldn\u2019t be about her. We were able to have her come back home. She was able to see that we could add to the family and that doesn\u2019t mean a diminished love for her. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe got her through that rocky patch. The good thing is she was able to feel accepted, and go on in her life, and get jobs, and go to college, and realize the life. A lot of foster children don\u2019t graduate from high school. Our job was to make sure everyone did graduate from high school and successfully launch. It\u2019s to their credit\u2014all of them did. They are all success stories! [Applause]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Good. That\u2019s good. Michele, you work in the public policy arena. I want you to take that hat off and put on your hat, as being a mom and a wife, who has now experienced this dimension of foster care. Just speak to these, here, who are gathered together, at the grassroots, to make a difference on behalf of the orphan. Talk about how important they are to what\u2019s going to happen for the orphan because government can only go so far.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michele:<\/strong>\u00a0 That\u2019s true.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 It really is, I think, the task of the Church\u2014the local church\u2014to address the needs of orphans. There are a-half-million children in foster care today\u2014more than 100,000 could be adopted. The only institution, in America, that\u2019s large enough to address that is the local church.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michele:<\/strong> And that\u2019s how we were introduced to foster care\u2014through some of our friends, in church, who had actually stepped out and taken a child into their home. They risked it. Imagine, you said 500,000 children are in that situation. Now, imagine\u2014rather than taking 23 children\u2014that may just be way, way beyond anything anyone could imagine\u2014but imagine taking one. Imagine taking one for one year or for two years. Imagine the life that you could touch during that time. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe are a very imperfect people and a very imperfect family, but what we felt we could do is offer the picture of what a family looks like: where a mom and a dad love each other. The dad gets up and goes to work in the morning. He comes home at night. He kisses the mom. The house has some semblance of order, most of the time, hopefully. We sit down at a meal that I make, and we pray before that meal. You do the chores. You go to bed. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThat seems normal; doesn\u2019t it? That seems like normal life. I\u2019m here to tell you\u2014there are children, across the United States\u2014for whom that is not normal life! Can you <em>imagine<\/em> what you would do if you could give a picture of normal-functioning life to a child, even for a window in their life, so they could know what that\u2019s like, and take that with them, and realize the joy that comes through that? Then, they may want to go out and replicate that lifestyle. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThat\u2019s something that we can do! It really is the Church because it emanates from a heart of love. Out of a heart of humility, we reach out\u2014we bring children in and give whatever it is we can. Maybe, it isn\u2019t long-term. Maybe, it isn\u2019t more than one; but it\u2019s something that each person can do. We <em>have<\/em> that many churches. We <em>have<\/em> that many families.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAt some point, maybe, the Lord would touch your heart to be open because our biological children learned so much. They learned that they are not the only people in the world\u2014that the world is far bigger than they are or their home. Our foster children learned that they\u2019re valuable and that they are worthy. We learned, as parents, a very important lesson that we didn\u2019t realize. We felt that, with our little tiny babies, that they could never need us more than when they are babies. Our foster children taught us that children need you more when they\u2019re older. That\u2019s counter-intuitive, but they need us more. They need to know that we know who they are\u2014we\u2019re invested in them, their friends, where their life is at. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOur foster children\u2014I can\u2019t thank enough\u2014because they prepared Marcus and me to be even better parents for our biological children when our biological children came through. Our kids all know the Lord; they walk with the Lord. As far as we\u2019re concerned, that\u2019s the greatest legacy we will ever have. We are happy people, very happy. [Applause]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 I just wish you had a little more passion about this subject, you know? [Laughter] Get a little fired-up.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes. You\u2019re doing this because, once, you were an orphan.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michele:<\/strong>\u00a0 Amen; amen! That\u2019s right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 And the Heavenly Father adopted you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michele:<\/strong>\u00a0 That\u2019s right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 And I think it\u2019s why it\u2019s referred to in James 1 as \u201cpure and undefiled religion\u201d because God\u2019s heart is for the orphan. It\u2019s a good thing because all of us start out as spiritual orphans, in need of redemption through Jesus Christ.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMichele, I think you have let your light shine before others so they\u2019ve seen your good works, and they are glorifying our Heavenly Father.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michele:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, you can\u2019t do it without a great husband. I have to give credit to my husband, Marcus. I mean, how many men would be willing to be a foster father to an additional 23 kids? He\u2019s a pretty incredible man! I thank God for him.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes, really very important. Out of everything you\u2019ve done in your lifetime, what\u2019s the most courageous thing you\u2019ve ever done?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michele:<\/strong>\u00a0 That\u2019s a good question. Honestly, it would be receiving the free gift of Jesus. That is not meant to be a clich\u00e9. I don\u2019t mean it as a clich\u00e9, but the Lord very seriously knocked on my heart\u2019s door when I was 16. That is the biggest step anybody ever takes because it\u2019s going from darkness to light. You don\u2019t know what this is all about, but the Holy Spirit very intentionally called me in. I thank God that He rescued me, at that point, in my life. Without a doubt, that was the most courageous decision because that\u2019s eternal. [Applause]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, I thank you for being obedient to Jesus Christ. As we go near the orphan, we get near the heart of God.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michele:<\/strong>\u00a0 Amen.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 We think we come\u2014bringing love, thinking we\u2019re going to be kind of the heroes to the orphan\u2014but in essence, we find out that the orphan teaches us a whole lot about love.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michele:<\/strong>\u00a0 Oh, you\u2019re exactly right. I just want to add one thing. Our daughter also has a broken heart toward orphans. She\u2019s a full-time missionary in an orphanage in Haiti. She has been changed, forever, by being involved in this ministry. That\u2019s another thing the Church can do\u2014is go on short-term and long-term mission trips. If your heart isn\u2019t broken yet, it will be if you go and visit an orphanage.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Go near the orphan. You\u2019ll find the heart of God there.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michele:<\/strong>\u00a0 Amen.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Barbara and I did. Our daughter, Deborah\u2014who is here, too\u201430 years ago, we adopted her\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michele:<\/strong>\u00a0 Oh, praise the Lord. Praise the Lord\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 \u2014and it\u2019s a great privilege. Michele\u2014thank you for being with us.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michele:<\/strong>\u00a0 Thank you, Dennis. Thank you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Thank Michele Bachmann; will you? [Applause]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michele:<\/strong>\u00a0 Thank you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[Studio]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 You know, as we had our conversation with Michele Bachmann, back a few months ago, at the Christian Alliance for Orphans Summit in Nashville, back in May, the people who were in the room were inspired, I think, by Michele\u2019s example and by what she had to share. If you find yourself, listening today, thinking to yourself, \u201cMaybe, we ought to consider foster parenting or foster adoption,\u201d our Hope for Orphans<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> team has put together a new resource called <em>Safe Harbor: A Christian\u2019s Guide to Foster Parenting and Adoption\u2122<\/em>\u2014a brand-new resource that\u2019s been created, specifically, to address the unique issues that are associated with foster parenting and with foster adoption.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIf you go to FamilyLifeToday.com, there is a link available there. It will take you right to a place where you can download, for free, this new resource from the Hope for Orphans team. Again, go to FamilyLifeToday.com. Click on the link and download the <em>Safe Harbor: A Christian\u2019s Guide to Foster Parenting and Adoption<\/em> resource that the Hope for Orphans team has put together. Of course, they have a variety of resources on every aspect of adoption, foster parenting, and how every one of us can be involved in caring for the needs of orphans, in our country, and all around the world. Again, the website: FamilyLifeToday.com. If we can help you by phone, give us a call at 1-800-FL-TODAY; that\u2019s 1-800-\u201cF\u201d as in family, \u201cL\u201d as in life, and then, the word, \u201cTODAY\u201d.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow, we have a lot of our listeners, over the last 24 hours, who have gotten in touch with us, after hearing about the special offer that our friends at Logos Bible Software are making for <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> listeners this week. I just wanted to remind folks: \u201cIf you are interested in any of their packages, you need to get in touch with us before Saturday because the special offer\u2014the 20 percent savings off of any of their Bible study libraries\u2014that\u2019s available between now and Saturday. 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