{"id":304572,"date":"2017-06-30T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/%series%\/modeling-gods-heart-through-foster-care\/"},"modified":"2017-06-30T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T15:00:00","slug":"modeling-gods-heart-through-foster-care","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/modeling-gods-heart-through-foster-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Modeling God&#8217;s Heart Through Foster Care"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TJ and Jenn Menn talk about the benefits and challenges of being foster parents, and remind us that we are close to the heart of God when we care for orphans and widows in their distress.<\/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\/fl2017-06-30.mp3","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"00:26:46","filesize":"24.51M","filesize_raw":"25705334","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":""},"categories":[2818,2821],"tags":[6101,5452],"podcast_series":[8219],"cwp_profile":[9460],"series":[2101],"class_list":["post-304572","podcast","type-podcast","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adoption-and-orphans","category-reaching-out","tag-care-for-orphans","tag-foster-parenting","podcast_series-faith-to-foster","cwp_profile-tj-and-jenn-menn","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\/304572\/modeling-gods-heart-through-foster-care","player_link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast-player\/304572\/modeling-gods-heart-through-foster-care","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=\"3mobdNzSpd\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/modeling-gods-heart-through-foster-care\/\">Modeling God&#8217;s Heart Through Foster Care<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/modeling-gods-heart-through-foster-care\/embed\/#?secret=3mobdNzSpd\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" title=\"&#8220;Modeling God&#8217;s Heart Through Foster Care&#8221; &#8212; FamilyLife\u00ae - A Cru Ministry\" data-secret=\"3mobdNzSpd\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script>\n\/*! 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I\u2019d say our average is probably around a year right now, from all the cases that we\u2019ve had. We\u2019ve had as long as just shy of two years, and we\u2019ve had as short as basically a weekend that we cared for a child.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>This is <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> for Friday, June 30th. Our host is the President of FamilyLife<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, Dennis Rainey, and I'm Bob Lepine. We\u2019ll hear today about the joys and the challenges that come with opening your home\u2014and your heart\u2014to children as a foster parent. Stay with us.\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. I just wonder how it would have gone over at your house when you and Barbara were first married. You\u2019d been married for a year and a half and let\u2019s say she was 21 years old and you came home and said, \u201cLet\u2019s take three kids in,\u201d you know, six, four, and a baby.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Foster care kids?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Yes; how would that have gone over?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>With Barbara or with me? [Laughter] At that point\u2014I don\u2019t know\u2014I think Barbara and I had had a conversation as we dated about adopting\u2014that was on her radar as a teenage girl growing up. I had never thought about the concept of adopting\u2014I do not remember a conscious thought of taking in a child. Personally, I didn\u2019t even really like kids at that point. I had to kind of grow in my love for kids as they came one at a time.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>It was after about five or six that you started liking them, right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>I started really liking them. [Laughter] Here\u2019s what I found: I thought, \u201cWe\u2019re not really taking the Bible seriously.\u201d The Bible says children are a blessing, not a burden\u2014that they\u2019re a privilege, not something that they\u2019re a curse\u2014that you\u2019re being punished for something. Are they hard work? No question about it! But are they worth it? I have no regrets. Absolutely no regrets.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe have a couple here with us who are on journey. They stepped out in faith and provided a home for so many they can\u2019t count them, and they have the wrong number in their book, which is entitled <em>Faith to Foster<\/em>.\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>Just because they\u2019ve continued the process since the publishing.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>TJ and Jenn Menn join us on <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. TJ, Jenn, welcome back to the broadcast.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jenn: <\/strong>Thanks for having us back.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>TJ: <\/strong>Thank you so much.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>The scenario that I asked Dennis about was your scenario because Jenn, you were\u2014weren\u2019t you 21?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jenn: <\/strong>I was.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>And you guys got a call. Somehow you had let the county know you had been through the training. You had taken on this assignment that \u201cwe\u2019d like to be foster parents\u201d\u2014early on. It\u2019s one thing to say, \u201cLet\u2019s do this,\u201d it\u2019s another thing when the call comes and they say, \u201cWe have three\u2014six, four, and a baby. Can we bring them over today?\u201d Isn\u2019t that how it works?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jenn: <\/strong>It\u2019s often that same day. For that first placement it was a couple hours later, and before we knew it we were on to other placements. We thought those three kids would be with us for a while, but after about two weeks\u2014we adjusted, finally sleeping at night, finally getting some doctor\u2019s appointments and getting healthy; the baby had pneumonia and was on asthma treatments and things. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo, right as we were finding our groove we got a call out of the blue that an aunt had driven from out of state. She found out that her nieces and nephew were in foster care, and so she came in, showed up at court that day\u2014and they gave her custody on the spot. It was a surprise to us. I had packed a little lunch bag for them to go to their visit with their mom, and about that time I had received a phone call saying, \u201cHey, just pack up all their stuff; they\u2019re going to be going with their aunt.\u201d\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\tThat was just as much of a shock\u2014going from zero to 60, and then it being all of a sudden quiet after two weeks of nonstop adjustment to them.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Was there a trauma in that at two weeks\u2014because you had started to reorder your whole life around these kids?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jenn: <\/strong>There was. You know, I think there\u2019s a shift that happens from kind of feeling like you\u2019re babysitting to feeling like you\u2019re \u201cMom\u201d around the two-week mark, now that we\u2019ve done it several times\u2014but it being the first goodbye I think made it more traumatic. TJ was up flying a helicopter at the time, so he couldn\u2019t be there for the goodbyes. So there I am\u2014by myself\u2014being pretty pitiful\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>TJ, you\u2019re in the military\u2014you\u2019re still serving. You\u2019d just gotten back from a 15-month deployment, and then you grow your family, turning it from two to five. What was the most important lesson you learned as you stepped out in faith to do that?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>TJ: <\/strong>I really think it was\u2014allow other people to help you, and allow the church to come alongside you. I mentioned in the last program just how much our Sunday school and our church helped us. We were a young married couple, we had things that young married couples did, but we didn\u2019t have extra beds. We had a queen bed for guests, but we didn\u2019t have cribs or we didn\u2019t have car seats or any of this stuff. When that happened\u2014and just seeing the Sunday school class and the community coming alongside us\u2014it was\u2014it was phenomenal.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Yes, but two weeks later you have cribs and toys and car seats and no kids\u2014I mean, I can imagine the melancholy that comes with that in that first weekend\u2014when it\u2019s the two of you. I imagine your crying wasn\u2019t over in a day.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jenn: <\/strong>No, it wasn\u2019t. I had this song stuck in my head that was driving me crazy, and probably after about three days the Holy Spirit was finally like, \u201cWill you just listen to that song you\u2019re singing in your head?\u201d It was a little kids\u2019 Bible song that was, \u201cIn my Father\u2019s house are many mansions, many mansions in my Father\u2019s house,\u201d which comes from John 14:1-2, where Jesus is saying, right before that, \u201cDo not let your hearts be troubled.\u201d And He goes on to talk about preparing a place. I think He was really just reassuring me that He has prepared a place for these children\u2014that I am not central to their story\u2014Jesus is the One central to their story. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThat sense of pressure lifted off and freedom\u2014like, \u201cJesus is going to be with these children, and He might bring them in our lives for two weeks or two years or forever\u2014but He\u2019s going to be with them forever.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>TJ: <\/strong>We mentioned earlier the numbers\u2014so our home wasn\u2019t empty for long.\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>Dennis: <\/strong>What is the average length of time that a parent can expect to be a foster parent caring for a child like this?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>TJ: <\/strong>Each situation is unique. I\u2019d say our average is probably around a year right now, from all the cases that we\u2019ve had. We\u2019ve had as long as just shy of two years, and we\u2019ve had as short as basically a weekend that we cared for a child.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>After you said goodbye then, to the three, and you packed them up and helped them head off\u2014how long before you got the next call?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jenn: <\/strong>It was about a week before we were asked to pick up a newborn baby from the hospital.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Wow.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>TJ: <\/strong>As we mentioned, there\u2019s a severe shortage\u2014and some counties are worse than others. We are in a pretty severe county down there in Georgia. I\u2019d like to say that that situation\u2019s gotten better, but we know that that county is still struggling.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>I spoke at a meeting here for the state of Arkansas, and a gathering of those who care for foster-care children, and there was a person who had traveled all the way from Georgia, because in her county she and her husband were the only\u2014the only\u2014foster-care qualified parents in their county. She just came wanting to say, \u201cHow do we get the word out about this, so the church can step forward and offer families for these kids who have none?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jenn: I<\/strong>t\u2019s true that different times I would be at church holding this beautiful baby and plenty of people would say, \u201cOh, I could just take her home with me,\u201d and there was a part of me that was like, \u201cGreat! Here\u2019s the papers; sign up for training! You\u2019ll have one coming home with you soon.\u201d [Laughter]\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>You sound like you guys were on a default \u201cyes\u201d \u2014if they were going to call and say, \u201cWe have seven kids,\u201d the answer was going to be yes. Is that right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>TJ: <\/strong>Not exactly. Our home\u2014you\u2019re going to be limited by the constraints of your home, and they will require certain bedroom arrangements and things that way. We\u2019re in a pretty small home, and so sibling groups\u2014some of those restrictions can be waived. I will say that we\u2019ve said no to plenty of kids\u2014and we list in the book some of the circumstances that we\u2019ve said no to. That\u2019s really hard, and I\u2019ll tell you that as hard as it is to say goodbye, I think it\u2019s harder to say \u201cNo\u201d on the phone call when they\u2019re calling you and saying, \u201cHey, we need you to take this child home.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>What kinds of circumstances have caused you to say no?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jenn: <\/strong>Sometimes it\u2019s just been we had other children in the home, and we felt like we were exhausted already at the end of the day, \u201cAnd how can we add another baby into this? TJ\u2019s deploying in four days\u2014\u201d Sometimes it would be a medical need that we just didn\u2019t feel capable to handle.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>TJ: I<\/strong>t\u2019s important to realize you can say no. We encourage people in the book and when we meet them, \u201cJust go to the training, and just go see if this is something that you can even do or not.\u201d If it isn\u2019t that\u2019s fine\u2014there are other ways to help, as we\u2019ve mentioned. Right now we have people that are phenomenal that are watching the kids for us while we travel here to be on the show. So, the community can help in other ways. Church members can help in other ways\u2014they don\u2019t have to be the foster parents.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Tell us about a little baby named Harmony.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>TJ: <\/strong>Harmony was our second placement, and she was probably one of the\u2014man, she captured my heart right away. She was just so young, and I forget the circumstances exactly why she came into care\u2014was it drugs?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jenn: <\/strong>She was drug-exposed, and in some states\u2014where we were at included\u2014if a baby\u2019s born with drugs in their system they automatically come in foster care. But she had had previous siblings that had been in foster care as well. You know, Dennis, you opened the show talking about you had to learn that children were a blessing, to see the Bible that way. I think Harmony was\u2014I mean, she cried and screamed. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tShe had drugs in her system, and we really had to learn that, like the psalmist says, \u201cFrom the lips of infants God has ordained praise.\u201d Infants, they only make a few sounds, and some of them sound a little screechy, you know\u2014but really just seeing that comforting her in the midst of her body adjusting to the world was praise.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Tell us about this drug exposure, because I think a lot of us hear about that and it conjures up a lot of fear with prospective parents. What\u2019s taking place there? Explain kind of how long it lasts and what are you dealing with?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jenn: <\/strong>There\u2019s really a spectrum of how someone would respond, how a baby responds, but usually it has to do with tenser muscles, not sleeping or eating as well. Sometimes it can mean something hasn\u2019t been developed; maybe their eyes aren\u2019t fully developed yet, or their lungs. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOn a worse-case scenario it might mean a breathing machine or a sleep apnea monitor, but often\u2014for the baby\u2014they\u2019re experiencing discomfort. They might be having migraine headaches as their body\u2019s just flushing out the toxins from their system, so there\u2019s just less restfulness\u2014they don\u2019t have that ability to calm themselves in the same way.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>TJ: <\/strong>A lot of states in the U.S. right now are dealing with this increased drug exposure, especially opiates. Ohio right now recently passed some legislation in the millions of dollars to help southern counties, where over 75 percent of some of these counties now\u2014the kids are coming into care because of drug exposure.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jenn: <\/strong>I feel like it\u2019s\u2014I don\u2019t mean to make it too light to say it\u2019s like helping a child put on a Band-Aid\u2014it\u2019s not that easy\u2014but it also isn\u2019t scary in that sense. There\u2019s a weight of responsibility in caring for a child. We had another newborn who was born over ten weeks premature, and when she came to us she was on all kinds of monitors and medicine\u2014and we definitely felt the weight of, \u201cThis child could die in our arms.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI don\u2019t mean to make light of it\u2014but when you trust that there\u2019s a God over this life\u2014who even brought this child to be with us\u2014you know, we didn\u2019t know her weeks ago\u2014there\u2019s a sense of relief\u2014of, \u201cWhatever\u2019s going to happen is in His will.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>You have to adjust all kinds of expectations with that understanding of, \u201cThis is God\u2019s child on loan to us for we don\u2019t know how long,\u201d because it\u2019s really easy for parents to start building in their own minds a whole checklist of, \u201cThis is what I\u2019m responsible for,\u201d and some of those things\u2014like keeping them alive\u2014you are responsible, but some of them you\u2019re not going to get the chance to see if they graduate from high school or to help them with their first job, or a lot of the things that\u2014in your own mind, you\u2019re thinking, \u201cI\u2019m supposed to do this.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>TJ: <\/strong>Harmony was a success story\u2014in the fact that she was not going to go back to her mother. That was pretty much determined early on, but they still had to allow a certain amount of time for the mother to maybe change ways and regain custody. What ended up happening was we had orders\u2014military orders to move\u2014and foster care you have to certify in each state. You\u2019re not going to take the kids out of the state with you\u2014your training doesn\u2019t go with you\u2014which is something that Jenn is working on, to try to get\u2014at a federal level. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo Harmony couldn\u2019t go with us because orders were coming. So we ended up transferring Harmony to an elderly couple, I think in their 60s. To their credit, they took her on the auspices of a foster child and were not intending to adopt, but fell in love with her and ended up adopting little Harmony.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Wow. That\u2019s cool.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>TJ: <\/strong>So Harmony was placed\u2014she probably never remembers her time with us, which is fine but\u2014we were there for the beginning of her life. We brought her home from the hospital, and we got to care for her. We loved her and we prayed over that child a lot. We hope that she takes the seeds that were planted and that it results in a harvest.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>I have to ask you what you send with your kids who leave your home, because Ashley, our daughter, and her husband Michael buy each of the children a Bible, and they write their names in the front of it and just let that child know where life is found. When they get old enough to read it, if they\u2019re a baby or a toddler and are not reading yet, they\u2019re going to have that as a part of their belongings as they go forward. What are you guys giving to your children?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jenn: <\/strong>That\u2019s beautiful. You know, I think for the younger ones we haven\u2019t sent Bibles like that, but now we will. [Laughter]\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>TJ: <\/strong>That\u2019s a great idea.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jenn: <\/strong>One of the things we\u2019ve been sure to do is get nice suitcases. I mean, really\u2014sometimes these kids are just showing up with garbage bags or grocery bags when they arrive places, and just to know that there\u2019s more stability than that. Things that have their name on it. We definitely send lots of pictures and all their belongings.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Yes; in fact, that was a question I wanted to ask you guys that I don\u2019t think most of our listeners can even conjure up or imagine the circumstances that some of these kids are living in. Just share one of the stories of where kids came from who came to your home.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>TJ: <\/strong>The one I think of, probably one of the more depressing, is they were found tied with dog leashes to the kitchen tables, and left there, and they don\u2019t know exactly how long.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Wow.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>TJ:<\/strong> Then another one fell out of the second story window and was inches away from landing on metal pipes or something below. She ended up going to the hospital, and that\u2019s what they ended up coming into care, that sibling group. Miraculously\u2014no broken bones, no severe injuries from falling out of the second story window.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jenn:<\/strong> Another case would have been an 11 and 13-year-old that Salvation Army called in; the family was homeless, and then when they started staying at the shelter there was a warrant out for the parents\u2019 arrest\u2014so they had to, by law, call in the warrant. When the parents were ushered off to jail, then they were left with these two kids at a Salvation Army\u2014so that\u2019s how they came in.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>It has to be different. I was wondering if it\u2019s harder to have a two-month-old baby show up or a 12-year-old show up in your home. It\u2019s obviously very different. Is one tougher than the other?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jenn: <\/strong>I think each one has its unique challenges. With the infants there\u2019s less sleep and more physical labor, and also that sense of, \u201cThey\u2019re not going to remember this,\u201d but they\u2019re also really cute. Whereas with the older children I think there\u2019s much more opportunity for actually speaking about spiritual principles and influencing in a way that we expect or think that they\u2019ll remember\u2014but at that point they\u2019ve also been parented in a way that\u2019s not healthy\u2014often for over a decade, and that\u2019s harder to correct\u2014that sort of habitual behavior.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>TJ: <\/strong>I will say what\u2019s interesting or what I\u2019ve enjoyed a lot with foster parenting and would really encourage your listeners, just a huge plus is with the older children that understand the Bible and understand Christ and even understand praying and things. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe\u2019ve been challenged recently\u2014a mentor of mine at West Point was challenging. We\u2019ve been going through this idea of family worship. It is so much fun to worship as a family and with these foster children that maybe have never known or experienced Jesus. We spend more time singing praise songs or praying or reading the Bible on a daily basis\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Have you been able to keep track of all of them?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jenn: <\/strong>No, unfortunately\u2014some of them we have. Oftentimes it depends on the adult caregiver that they go to next, and whether they\u2019re in touch with Facebook. I mean, some of it is we move around as a military family. I think if we would have stayed in one community we would have taken on more of an \u201cauntie\u201d role with some of these cases.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Now, I don\u2019t know the answer to this\u2014do you have bio kids?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jenn: <\/strong>We do not. So we exclusively foster right now.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>And is that by choice?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jenn: <\/strong>No.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>So, you started fostering without any sense that infertility would be a struggle for you guys.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jenn: <\/strong>Correct\u2014we had no idea how God would grow our family\u2014and even now as foster parents, for probably the last seven years we would have liked to adopt from foster care, but that\u2019s kind of a weird place to get into. At one point we hope to be able to adopt\u2014but that\u2019s like saying when a child is placed with us that we \u201chope\u201d that their parents won\u2019t be able to have their children back. It\u2019s this little catch 22 we found ourselves in, and just trusting, \u201cWell, whatever children God brings our way, He knows their outcome and\u2014\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Jenn, if I were you and wanted to be a mom, I\u2019d have a little bit of this thought, like, \u201cHey! I started fostering earlier than most. God owes me.\u201d\u00a0 Have you had thoughts like that?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jenn: <\/strong>I don\u2019t know. I think foster care kind of wipes away the romanticism of parenting. [Laughter] Really!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Okay, okay.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Your husband is laughing.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>TJ: <\/strong>Yes. It\u2019s true, and foster parenting\u2014it\u2019s really unique\u2014at least in our situation, and this wouldn\u2019t be true for all your listeners, but we don\u2019t have kids of our own. So we have gone from this experience of no kids, just the two of us, to having kids, to no kids, to having kids multiple times. Each time I\u2019m struck by one, the amount of time parenting requires.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>TJ: <\/strong>And then, secondly, the amount of free time we have when kids have gone out of the house and how quiet the house is. But, just like it\u2019s amazing to me\u2014I\u2019m like, \u201cIf you don\u2019t have children in your life and you\u2019re a Christian, there\u2019s tons of time for you to be doing ministry work.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>You\u2019ve been empty nesters about ten or 12 times now, haven\u2019t you? I mean, it comes and goes. Every season is either kids or empty nests, and then getting ready for whatever the next season is.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jenn: <\/strong>I think one of the things that infertility while fostering has done is it\u2019s really helped us wrestle through this concept of where our hope belongs\u2014because it\u2019s not quite right to say, \u201cOh, I hope we can adopt these kids,\u201d even though sometimes other people will say, \u201cOh, I hope you get to adopt them.\u201d And it\u2019s not quite right to say, \u201cOh, I hope we get pregnant,\u201d \u201cI hope this,\u201d or, \u201cI hope that.\u201d Sometimes it\u2019s maybe, \u201cOh, I hope the mom will stay off drugs,\u201d or, \u201cI hope the birth dad comes to the visit.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tReally the only place that our hope belongs, as 1 Peter 3 talks about, is in the grace of God being revealed through Jesus Christ\u2014then that\u2019s like, \u201cOkay, what does that practically look like?\u201d I think what it looks like is facing a day before us and looking for God\u2019s grace in it. God\u2019s grace is going to be revealed through conception or through adoption or through just a child lighting up and seeing something new, or an encouraging note being written to a caseworker. I don\u2019t know what that grace is going to look like, but if I take my eyes off of what I don\u2019t have and what I wish I have, and instead start looking for the grace of God, my days become very full and joyful.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Well, if our listener hasn\u2019t sensed it, you have gone near the heart of God.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>All I know is as you go near the heart of an orphan you go near the heart of God, and you\u2019re going to be ministered to in ways that you won\u2019t even be able to imagine. You guys are both nodding your heads right now. I\u2019m just thinking you\u2019re dealing with infertility, but your answer was beautiful. You\u2019re finding the right place to put your hope. Wow. That\u2019s a powerful thought.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jenn: <\/strong>Recently\u2014about three months ago\u2014we took a placement of a newborn baby who happens to have the name of an angel. One of the verses that struck me is about when you minister to strangers you might entertain angels unaware. I\u2019ve wondered that, of just, \u201cWhat is an angel? An angel is a ministering spirit.\u201d So when we are hospitable in our home of entertaining strangers, even when they come to us at six pounds, that little boy may be ministering to me in ways that I couldn\u2019t have asked for.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>You have a remarkable number of angel stories all the way through this book, <em>Faith to Foster<\/em> which is, at one level, you guys are cheering on any couple who says, \u201cWe might be able to do this.\u201d At another level you\u2019re saying, \u201cNow, here\u2019s what it takes to do it\u201d \u2014then for all of us you\u2019re just giving us a glimpse inside pure and undefiled religion. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI\u2019d just encourage listeners to get a copy of your book, <em>Faith to Foster<\/em>. You can order online at FamilyLifeToday.com, or you can call to order at 1-800-358-6329. Again, the title of the book is <em>Faith to Foster<\/em>. Order from our website, FamilyLifeToday.com, or call to order, 1-800-358-6329. 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\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>I just want to ask, is the picture of the back window of your minivan, where it has this military couple and then\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>It has 17\u2014I counted 17.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Seventeen? Seventeen kids, those stick figure kids there\u2014is that really on the back of your\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>I do love the camo, the guy in camo. I haven\u2019t seen that one before on the back windshield\u2014that\u2019s great.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jenn: <\/strong>We did recently cave last month. We maxed out our SUV and changed over to a minivan.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>There you go.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>TJ: <\/strong>Jenn is not too excited about this process. [Laughter]\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>It\u2019s the ultimate death as a parent, isn\u2019t it?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHey, before we\u2019re done I need to say a quick word of thanks to those folks who have made today\u2019s program possible. In fact, you guys are being heard all around the world today. 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I\u2019d say our average is probably around a year right now, from all the cases that we\u2019ve had. We\u2019ve had as long as just shy of two years, and we\u2019ve had as short as basically a weekend that we cared for a child.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>This is <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> for Friday, June 30th. Our host is the President of FamilyLife<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, Dennis Rainey, and I'm Bob Lepine. We\u2019ll hear today about the joys and the challenges that come with opening your home\u2014and your heart\u2014to children as a foster parent. Stay with us.\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. I just wonder how it would have gone over at your house when you and Barbara were first married. You\u2019d been married for a year and a half and let\u2019s say she was 21 years old and you came home and said, \u201cLet\u2019s take three kids in,\u201d you know, six, four, and a baby.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Foster care kids?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Yes; how would that have gone over?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>With Barbara or with me? [Laughter] At that point\u2014I don\u2019t know\u2014I think Barbara and I had had a conversation as we dated about adopting\u2014that was on her radar as a teenage girl growing up. I had never thought about the concept of adopting\u2014I do not remember a conscious thought of taking in a child. Personally, I didn\u2019t even really like kids at that point. 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They stepped out in faith and provided a home for so many they can\u2019t count them, and they have the wrong number in their book, which is entitled <em>Faith to Foster<\/em>.\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>Just because they\u2019ve continued the process since the publishing.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>TJ and Jenn Menn join us on <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. TJ, Jenn, welcome back to the broadcast.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jenn: <\/strong>Thanks for having us back.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>TJ: <\/strong>Thank you so much.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>The scenario that I asked Dennis about was your scenario because Jenn, you were\u2014weren\u2019t you 21?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jenn: <\/strong>I was.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>And you guys got a call. Somehow you had let the county know you had been through the training. You had taken on this assignment that \u201cwe\u2019d like to be foster parents\u201d\u2014early on. It\u2019s one thing to say, \u201cLet\u2019s do this,\u201d it\u2019s another thing when the call comes and they say, \u201cWe have three\u2014six, four, and a baby. Can we bring them over today?\u201d Isn\u2019t that how it works?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jenn: <\/strong>It\u2019s often that same day. For that first placement it was a couple hours later, and before we knew it we were on to other placements. We thought those three kids would be with us for a while, but after about two weeks\u2014we adjusted, finally sleeping at night, finally getting some doctor\u2019s appointments and getting healthy; the baby had pneumonia and was on asthma treatments and things. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo, right as we were finding our groove we got a call out of the blue that an aunt had driven from out of state. She found out that her nieces and nephew were in foster care, and so she came in, showed up at court that day\u2014and they gave her custody on the spot. It was a surprise to us. I had packed a little lunch bag for them to go to their visit with their mom, and about that time I had received a phone call saying, \u201cHey, just pack up all their stuff; they\u2019re going to be going with their aunt.\u201d\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\tThat was just as much of a shock\u2014going from zero to 60, and then it being all of a sudden quiet after two weeks of nonstop adjustment to them.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Was there a trauma in that at two weeks\u2014because you had started to reorder your whole life around these kids?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jenn: <\/strong>There was. You know, I think there\u2019s a shift that happens from kind of feeling like you\u2019re babysitting to feeling like you\u2019re \u201cMom\u201d around the two-week mark, now that we\u2019ve done it several times\u2014but it being the first goodbye I think made it more traumatic. TJ was up flying a helicopter at the time, so he couldn\u2019t be there for the goodbyes. So there I am\u2014by myself\u2014being pretty pitiful\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>TJ, you\u2019re in the military\u2014you\u2019re still serving. You\u2019d just gotten back from a 15-month deployment, and then you grow your family, turning it from two to five. What was the most important lesson you learned as you stepped out in faith to do that?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>TJ: <\/strong>I really think it was\u2014allow other people to help you, and allow the church to come alongside you. I mentioned in the last program just how much our Sunday school and our church helped us. We were a young married couple, we had things that young married couples did, but we didn\u2019t have extra beds. We had a queen bed for guests, but we didn\u2019t have cribs or we didn\u2019t have car seats or any of this stuff. When that happened\u2014and just seeing the Sunday school class and the community coming alongside us\u2014it was\u2014it was phenomenal.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Yes, but two weeks later you have cribs and toys and car seats and no kids\u2014I mean, I can imagine the melancholy that comes with that in that first weekend\u2014when it\u2019s the two of you. I imagine your crying wasn\u2019t over in a day.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jenn: <\/strong>No, it wasn\u2019t. I had this song stuck in my head that was driving me crazy, and probably after about three days the Holy Spirit was finally like, \u201cWill you just listen to that song you\u2019re singing in your head?\u201d It was a little kids\u2019 Bible song that was, \u201cIn my Father\u2019s house are many mansions, many mansions in my Father\u2019s house,\u201d which comes from John 14:1-2, where Jesus is saying, right before that, \u201cDo not let your hearts be troubled.\u201d And He goes on to talk about preparing a place. I think He was really just reassuring me that He has prepared a place for these children\u2014that I am not central to their story\u2014Jesus is the One central to their story. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThat sense of pressure lifted off and freedom\u2014like, \u201cJesus is going to be with these children, and He might bring them in our lives for two weeks or two years or forever\u2014but He\u2019s going to be with them forever.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>TJ: <\/strong>We mentioned earlier the numbers\u2014so our home wasn\u2019t empty for long.\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>Dennis: <\/strong>What is the average length of time that a parent can expect to be a foster parent caring for a child like this?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>TJ: <\/strong>Each situation is unique. I\u2019d say our average is probably around a year right now, from all the cases that we\u2019ve had. We\u2019ve had as long as just shy of two years, and we\u2019ve had as short as basically a weekend that we cared for a child.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>After you said goodbye then, to the three, and you packed them up and helped them head off\u2014how long before you got the next call?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jenn: <\/strong>It was about a week before we were asked to pick up a newborn baby from the hospital.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Wow.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>TJ: <\/strong>As we mentioned, there\u2019s a severe shortage\u2014and some counties are worse than others. We are in a pretty severe county down there in Georgia. I\u2019d like to say that that situation\u2019s gotten better, but we know that that county is still struggling.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>I spoke at a meeting here for the state of Arkansas, and a gathering of those who care for foster-care children, and there was a person who had traveled all the way from Georgia, because in her county she and her husband were the only\u2014the only\u2014foster-care qualified parents in their county. She just came wanting to say, \u201cHow do we get the word out about this, so the church can step forward and offer families for these kids who have none?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jenn: I<\/strong>t\u2019s true that different times I would be at church holding this beautiful baby and plenty of people would say, \u201cOh, I could just take her home with me,\u201d and there was a part of me that was like, \u201cGreat! Here\u2019s the papers; sign up for training! You\u2019ll have one coming home with you soon.\u201d [Laughter]\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>You sound like you guys were on a default \u201cyes\u201d \u2014if they were going to call and say, \u201cWe have seven kids,\u201d the answer was going to be yes. Is that right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>TJ: <\/strong>Not exactly. Our home\u2014you\u2019re going to be limited by the constraints of your home, and they will require certain bedroom arrangements and things that way. We\u2019re in a pretty small home, and so sibling groups\u2014some of those restrictions can be waived. I will say that we\u2019ve said no to plenty of kids\u2014and we list in the book some of the circumstances that we\u2019ve said no to. That\u2019s really hard, and I\u2019ll tell you that as hard as it is to say goodbye, I think it\u2019s harder to say \u201cNo\u201d on the phone call when they\u2019re calling you and saying, \u201cHey, we need you to take this child home.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>What kinds of circumstances have caused you to say no?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jenn: <\/strong>Sometimes it\u2019s just been we had other children in the home, and we felt like we were exhausted already at the end of the day, \u201cAnd how can we add another baby into this? TJ\u2019s deploying in four days\u2014\u201d Sometimes it would be a medical need that we just didn\u2019t feel capable to handle.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>TJ: I<\/strong>t\u2019s important to realize you can say no. We encourage people in the book and when we meet them, \u201cJust go to the training, and just go see if this is something that you can even do or not.\u201d If it isn\u2019t that\u2019s fine\u2014there are other ways to help, as we\u2019ve mentioned. Right now we have people that are phenomenal that are watching the kids for us while we travel here to be on the show. So, the community can help in other ways. Church members can help in other ways\u2014they don\u2019t have to be the foster parents.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Tell us about a little baby named Harmony.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>TJ: <\/strong>Harmony was our second placement, and she was probably one of the\u2014man, she captured my heart right away. She was just so young, and I forget the circumstances exactly why she came into care\u2014was it drugs?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jenn: <\/strong>She was drug-exposed, and in some states\u2014where we were at included\u2014if a baby\u2019s born with drugs in their system they automatically come in foster care. But she had had previous siblings that had been in foster care as well. You know, Dennis, you opened the show talking about you had to learn that children were a blessing, to see the Bible that way. I think Harmony was\u2014I mean, she cried and screamed. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tShe had drugs in her system, and we really had to learn that, like the psalmist says, \u201cFrom the lips of infants God has ordained praise.\u201d Infants, they only make a few sounds, and some of them sound a little screechy, you know\u2014but really just seeing that comforting her in the midst of her body adjusting to the world was praise.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Tell us about this drug exposure, because I think a lot of us hear about that and it conjures up a lot of fear with prospective parents. What\u2019s taking place there? Explain kind of how long it lasts and what are you dealing with?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jenn: <\/strong>There\u2019s really a spectrum of how someone would respond, how a baby responds, but usually it has to do with tenser muscles, not sleeping or eating as well. Sometimes it can mean something hasn\u2019t been developed; maybe their eyes aren\u2019t fully developed yet, or their lungs. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOn a worse-case scenario it might mean a breathing machine or a sleep apnea monitor, but often\u2014for the baby\u2014they\u2019re experiencing discomfort. They might be having migraine headaches as their body\u2019s just flushing out the toxins from their system, so there\u2019s just less restfulness\u2014they don\u2019t have that ability to calm themselves in the same way.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>TJ: <\/strong>A lot of states in the U.S. right now are dealing with this increased drug exposure, especially opiates. Ohio right now recently passed some legislation in the millions of dollars to help southern counties, where over 75 percent of some of these counties now\u2014the kids are coming into care because of drug exposure.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jenn: <\/strong>I feel like it\u2019s\u2014I don\u2019t mean to make it too light to say it\u2019s like helping a child put on a Band-Aid\u2014it\u2019s not that easy\u2014but it also isn\u2019t scary in that sense. There\u2019s a weight of responsibility in caring for a child. We had another newborn who was born over ten weeks premature, and when she came to us she was on all kinds of monitors and medicine\u2014and we definitely felt the weight of, \u201cThis child could die in our arms.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI don\u2019t mean to make light of it\u2014but when you trust that there\u2019s a God over this life\u2014who even brought this child to be with us\u2014you know, we didn\u2019t know her weeks ago\u2014there\u2019s a sense of relief\u2014of, \u201cWhatever\u2019s going to happen is in His will.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>You have to adjust all kinds of expectations with that understanding of, \u201cThis is God\u2019s child on loan to us for we don\u2019t know how long,\u201d because it\u2019s really easy for parents to start building in their own minds a whole checklist of, \u201cThis is what I\u2019m responsible for,\u201d and some of those things\u2014like keeping them alive\u2014you are responsible, but some of them you\u2019re not going to get the chance to see if they graduate from high school or to help them with their first job, or a lot of the things that\u2014in your own mind, you\u2019re thinking, \u201cI\u2019m supposed to do this.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>TJ: <\/strong>Harmony was a success story\u2014in the fact that she was not going to go back to her mother. That was pretty much determined early on, but they still had to allow a certain amount of time for the mother to maybe change ways and regain custody. What ended up happening was we had orders\u2014military orders to move\u2014and foster care you have to certify in each state. You\u2019re not going to take the kids out of the state with you\u2014your training doesn\u2019t go with you\u2014which is something that Jenn is working on, to try to get\u2014at a federal level. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo Harmony couldn\u2019t go with us because orders were coming. So we ended up transferring Harmony to an elderly couple, I think in their 60s. To their credit, they took her on the auspices of a foster child and were not intending to adopt, but fell in love with her and ended up adopting little Harmony.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Wow. That\u2019s cool.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>TJ: <\/strong>So Harmony was placed\u2014she probably never remembers her time with us, which is fine but\u2014we were there for the beginning of her life. We brought her home from the hospital, and we got to care for her. We loved her and we prayed over that child a lot. We hope that she takes the seeds that were planted and that it results in a harvest.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>I have to ask you what you send with your kids who leave your home, because Ashley, our daughter, and her husband Michael buy each of the children a Bible, and they write their names in the front of it and just let that child know where life is found. When they get old enough to read it, if they\u2019re a baby or a toddler and are not reading yet, they\u2019re going to have that as a part of their belongings as they go forward. What are you guys giving to your children?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jenn: <\/strong>That\u2019s beautiful. You know, I think for the younger ones we haven\u2019t sent Bibles like that, but now we will. [Laughter]\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>TJ: <\/strong>That\u2019s a great idea.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jenn: <\/strong>One of the things we\u2019ve been sure to do is get nice suitcases. I mean, really\u2014sometimes these kids are just showing up with garbage bags or grocery bags when they arrive places, and just to know that there\u2019s more stability than that. Things that have their name on it. We definitely send lots of pictures and all their belongings.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Yes; in fact, that was a question I wanted to ask you guys that I don\u2019t think most of our listeners can even conjure up or imagine the circumstances that some of these kids are living in. Just share one of the stories of where kids came from who came to your home.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>TJ: <\/strong>The one I think of, probably one of the more depressing, is they were found tied with dog leashes to the kitchen tables, and left there, and they don\u2019t know exactly how long.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Wow.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>TJ:<\/strong> Then another one fell out of the second story window and was inches away from landing on metal pipes or something below. She ended up going to the hospital, and that\u2019s what they ended up coming into care, that sibling group. Miraculously\u2014no broken bones, no severe injuries from falling out of the second story window.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jenn:<\/strong> Another case would have been an 11 and 13-year-old that Salvation Army called in; the family was homeless, and then when they started staying at the shelter there was a warrant out for the parents\u2019 arrest\u2014so they had to, by law, call in the warrant. When the parents were ushered off to jail, then they were left with these two kids at a Salvation Army\u2014so that\u2019s how they came in.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>It has to be different. I was wondering if it\u2019s harder to have a two-month-old baby show up or a 12-year-old show up in your home. It\u2019s obviously very different. Is one tougher than the other?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jenn: <\/strong>I think each one has its unique challenges. With the infants there\u2019s less sleep and more physical labor, and also that sense of, \u201cThey\u2019re not going to remember this,\u201d but they\u2019re also really cute. Whereas with the older children I think there\u2019s much more opportunity for actually speaking about spiritual principles and influencing in a way that we expect or think that they\u2019ll remember\u2014but at that point they\u2019ve also been parented in a way that\u2019s not healthy\u2014often for over a decade, and that\u2019s harder to correct\u2014that sort of habitual behavior.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>TJ: <\/strong>I will say what\u2019s interesting or what I\u2019ve enjoyed a lot with foster parenting and would really encourage your listeners, just a huge plus is with the older children that understand the Bible and understand Christ and even understand praying and things. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe\u2019ve been challenged recently\u2014a mentor of mine at West Point was challenging. We\u2019ve been going through this idea of family worship. It is so much fun to worship as a family and with these foster children that maybe have never known or experienced Jesus. We spend more time singing praise songs or praying or reading the Bible on a daily basis\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Have you been able to keep track of all of them?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jenn: <\/strong>No, unfortunately\u2014some of them we have. Oftentimes it depends on the adult caregiver that they go to next, and whether they\u2019re in touch with Facebook. I mean, some of it is we move around as a military family. I think if we would have stayed in one community we would have taken on more of an \u201cauntie\u201d role with some of these cases.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Now, I don\u2019t know the answer to this\u2014do you have bio kids?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jenn: <\/strong>We do not. So we exclusively foster right now.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>And is that by choice?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jenn: <\/strong>No.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>So, you started fostering without any sense that infertility would be a struggle for you guys.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jenn: <\/strong>Correct\u2014we had no idea how God would grow our family\u2014and even now as foster parents, for probably the last seven years we would have liked to adopt from foster care, but that\u2019s kind of a weird place to get into. At one point we hope to be able to adopt\u2014but that\u2019s like saying when a child is placed with us that we \u201chope\u201d that their parents won\u2019t be able to have their children back. It\u2019s this little catch 22 we found ourselves in, and just trusting, \u201cWell, whatever children God brings our way, He knows their outcome and\u2014\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Jenn, if I were you and wanted to be a mom, I\u2019d have a little bit of this thought, like, \u201cHey! I started fostering earlier than most. God owes me.\u201d\u00a0 Have you had thoughts like that?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jenn: <\/strong>I don\u2019t know. I think foster care kind of wipes away the romanticism of parenting. [Laughter] Really!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Okay, okay.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Your husband is laughing.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>TJ: <\/strong>Yes. It\u2019s true, and foster parenting\u2014it\u2019s really unique\u2014at least in our situation, and this wouldn\u2019t be true for all your listeners, but we don\u2019t have kids of our own. So we have gone from this experience of no kids, just the two of us, to having kids, to no kids, to having kids multiple times. Each time I\u2019m struck by one, the amount of time parenting requires.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>TJ: <\/strong>And then, secondly, the amount of free time we have when kids have gone out of the house and how quiet the house is. But, just like it\u2019s amazing to me\u2014I\u2019m like, \u201cIf you don\u2019t have children in your life and you\u2019re a Christian, there\u2019s tons of time for you to be doing ministry work.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>You\u2019ve been empty nesters about ten or 12 times now, haven\u2019t you? I mean, it comes and goes. Every season is either kids or empty nests, and then getting ready for whatever the next season is.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jenn: <\/strong>I think one of the things that infertility while fostering has done is it\u2019s really helped us wrestle through this concept of where our hope belongs\u2014because it\u2019s not quite right to say, \u201cOh, I hope we can adopt these kids,\u201d even though sometimes other people will say, \u201cOh, I hope you get to adopt them.\u201d And it\u2019s not quite right to say, \u201cOh, I hope we get pregnant,\u201d \u201cI hope this,\u201d or, \u201cI hope that.\u201d Sometimes it\u2019s maybe, \u201cOh, I hope the mom will stay off drugs,\u201d or, \u201cI hope the birth dad comes to the visit.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tReally the only place that our hope belongs, as 1 Peter 3 talks about, is in the grace of God being revealed through Jesus Christ\u2014then that\u2019s like, \u201cOkay, what does that practically look like?\u201d I think what it looks like is facing a day before us and looking for God\u2019s grace in it. God\u2019s grace is going to be revealed through conception or through adoption or through just a child lighting up and seeing something new, or an encouraging note being written to a caseworker. I don\u2019t know what that grace is going to look like, but if I take my eyes off of what I don\u2019t have and what I wish I have, and instead start looking for the grace of God, my days become very full and joyful.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Well, if our listener hasn\u2019t sensed it, you have gone near the heart of God.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>All I know is as you go near the heart of an orphan you go near the heart of God, and you\u2019re going to be ministered to in ways that you won\u2019t even be able to imagine. You guys are both nodding your heads right now. I\u2019m just thinking you\u2019re dealing with infertility, but your answer was beautiful. You\u2019re finding the right place to put your hope. Wow. That\u2019s a powerful thought.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jenn: <\/strong>Recently\u2014about three months ago\u2014we took a placement of a newborn baby who happens to have the name of an angel. One of the verses that struck me is about when you minister to strangers you might entertain angels unaware. I\u2019ve wondered that, of just, \u201cWhat is an angel? An angel is a ministering spirit.\u201d So when we are hospitable in our home of entertaining strangers, even when they come to us at six pounds, that little boy may be ministering to me in ways that I couldn\u2019t have asked for.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>You have a remarkable number of angel stories all the way through this book, <em>Faith to Foster<\/em> which is, at one level, you guys are cheering on any couple who says, \u201cWe might be able to do this.\u201d At another level you\u2019re saying, \u201cNow, here\u2019s what it takes to do it\u201d \u2014then for all of us you\u2019re just giving us a glimpse inside pure and undefiled religion. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI\u2019d just encourage listeners to get a copy of your book, <em>Faith to Foster<\/em>. You can order online at FamilyLifeToday.com, or you can call to order at 1-800-358-6329. Again, the title of the book is <em>Faith to Foster<\/em>. Order from our website, FamilyLifeToday.com, or call to order, 1-800-358-6329. 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\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>I just want to ask, is the picture of the back window of your minivan, where it has this military couple and then\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>It has 17\u2014I counted 17.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Seventeen? Seventeen kids, those stick figure kids there\u2014is that really on the back of your\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>I do love the camo, the guy in camo. I haven\u2019t seen that one before on the back windshield\u2014that\u2019s great.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jenn: <\/strong>We did recently cave last month. We maxed out our SUV and changed over to a minivan.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>There you go.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>TJ: <\/strong>Jenn is not too excited about this process. [Laughter]\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>It\u2019s the ultimate death as a parent, isn\u2019t it?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHey, before we\u2019re done I need to say a quick word of thanks to those folks who have made today\u2019s program possible. In fact, you guys are being heard all around the world today. Some folks are listening on the <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> app, some folks are listening online, they\u2019re streaming today\u2019s program; they\u2019re listening on One Place or tune-in radio, and of course, most people are listening on their local Christian radio station in cities around the country.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAll of that is happening because we have some very generous listeners\u2014folks who tune in and listen to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> and who have said, \u201cThis program matters for our family and it matters for our community, and we want it to reach more people.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIf you\u2019re a regular listener to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> and you haven\u2019t joined the team of folks who help provide <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> and are making it possible for us to reach more people all around the world, it\u2019s easy to join that team. You can go online and make a donation at FamilyLifeToday.com, or you can call 1-800-FL-TODAY to donate. Or you can mail your donation to us at <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> at Box 7111, Little Rock, AR; our zip code is 72223.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow we hope you have a great weekend this weekend\u2014Hope you and your family are able to worship together in your local church this weekend. And I hope you can join us back on Monday, when singer-songwriter Laura Story is going to join us, and we\u2019re going to hear some of the stories behind the songs that she has written, and hear more about her life as a wife and mom\u2014hope you can tune in for that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI want to thank our engineer today, Keith Lynch, along with our entire broadcast production team. On behalf of our host, Dennis Rainey, I'm Bob Lepine. 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