Mercy in Action: Church Serving Foster Families and Trauma

I've coached in was coaching a family, and they have if you don't know, like, once kids are nine and over in the foster care adoption system, the chances of them going into a foster home are slim to none. So, the state has really worked to stop hoteling kids, so they might not may not necessarily be in hotels. But, I'll just say they're probably not in places that you and I would want our children to be, especially at those vulnerable ages of prepubescent and all So this family, [01:02:45] (28 seconds)  #FosterCarePreteenCrisis

And the church has rallied around them, and another people another couple in their small group has is now volunteering in the youth ministry with that kid because he does need a little bit of extra supervision, but it gives those parents time so that they can go to their small group and be around other adults and breathe, and they're not his constant supervision. So, basically, what they're doing for that kid is building him a community. [01:04:23] (21 seconds)  #BuildingCommunityForKids

Scripture has been talking about trauma since Genesis chapter three because trauma is brokenness. So when sin entered the world in Genesis chapter three, it brought in all those things, and we'll talk about this. Y'all come eat lunch. And I don't wanna prep the lunch, but there I did hear there's four kinds of desserts. So if you don't come for me, there's, like, three different kinds of cobblers, and it's so much better than anything else you're probably gonna eat today. [01:13:45] (19 seconds)  #HealHeartsNotJustSymptoms

But because my family was probably eating cereal. But anyway and so but when we think about trauma and and brokenness, it's not a new thing. Right? And so what science is doing is just finally catching up with the scriptures. The Lord had a plan for this, in the beginning. We have examples of this, and we see how God deals with trauma throughout life. [01:14:04] (20 seconds)  #TraumaSinceGenesis

But all of us encounter brokenness, and all of us have wounds that hang on for a little bit. You know? So for example, like, I I have the wound of, not having, you know, my father in my life. That is a wound. Right? So when that when he takes my daughter to daddy daughter dance, I'm a puddle because that was not my life story. Right? And so it it comes back around sometimes. And the Lord reminds me that he was there with me too. [01:14:24] (24 seconds)  #ScienceMeetsScripture

He just didn't. He leaned into brokenness, and we have so many examples where he goes into places where people are in the hardest moments of their lives, and he stops and he sees them. The woman with the bleeding condition, Peter after he denied him three times, Saul on the road to Damascus, Moses at the burning bush is like, I'm gonna do. Abraham when Elijah, we see trauma so much come throughout scripture. [01:15:36] (23 seconds)  #CancelCultureVsCompassion

And we never say the Lord go, oh, that is just too much for me to handle. Y'all gonna have to keep that over there. You know? If my grandmother calls it, you know, put your lipstick on, keep you crazy in the house. Jesus does not operate that way. And we have to stop when people are have experienced trauma things going up because that's what we all were. And then we encountered Jesus. [01:15:59] (18 seconds)  #JesusLeanedIntoBrokenness

And he said, man, this is not gonna be fully restored and redeemed until we get into heaven. And when we get into heaven, we're gonna see all of that. You're gonna understand. But the goal was never to, create, you know, the perfect you know, we call it isolating and insulating, our lives. [01:16:17] (17 seconds)  #JesusDoesntTurnAway