Content Warning: This episode includes discussion of suicide, loss, grief, and the death of a child. Please listen with care and discernment.

In this episode of Restoried, we sit down with Joyce Anders, a foster and adoptive mom whose family’s journey into foster care began in the middle of one of the hardest seasons of their lives.

After losing their 14-year-old daughter, Samantha, Joyce and her husband walked through deep grief and eventually chose to say yes to foster care, welcoming three siblings into their home and eventually adopting them.

Joyce shares honestly about grief, exhaustion, obedience, and what it looks like to trust God when He calls us to do hard things. She also shares how God used her children to give her purpose in a season when she struggled to keep moving forward, and how years later, He began stirring her heart to become licensed again.

This conversation is a reminder that following Jesus isn't always comfortable, but God meets us in the hard places. Whether you're called to foster, pray, encourage, or support a foster family, there is a way to step toward the vulnerable and be part of showing a child the love of Jesus.

Episode Highlights:

• Foster Care
• Adoption
• Faith
• Grief
• Mental Health

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