How God is using a Family & a Farm to Bless Foster Children

At the 2014 Summit, Louie Giglio spoke directly to a woman’s heart about a calling she had received at her very first Summit a few years earlier. What is happening as a result is truly inspiring.

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“The Summit is always the reflective, alone time I need. The first year I attended the Summit, God spoke a prayer in my heart:

Hold me, so I can hold them, so you can hold them.

I thought it was about my students at school, and it maybe partially was. In the four years since, it’s been apparent that God is calling me into foster care, though many challenges stand in the way.

Each year, the Summit helps me crack a bit more of the code to my calling. This year, it boldly confirmed many truths God has recently been speaking into my life. God also revealed a vision to me in my quiet time to use our family farm to help the foster children and other neglected people. He’s been calling me to embrace that calling. I said okay, but I hadn’t the slightest idea how to get there—and, bam—Louie Giglio’s words at the Summit spoke straight to that need in my heart.

God lives, and He lives in me. Of that I’m confident. He will continue to live as we live. That’s how we win.

In the months since the Summit of 2014, I’ve had some health problems, and also am now pregnant. We haven’t made a lot of specific progress, but I have made contacts within our local foster care system, and started serving our local children’s group home with meals and donations. Recently, I’ve been brainstorming on doing a weeklong summer day camp with hands-on agriculture education components that are free for the kids. We live in an agricultural community, and I think I could find a lot of support. Very recently, my in-laws decided to buy a connecting farm. It’s a gorgeous spot with an old farm house on it. Maybe this will provide the facilities we need to run the camp! Our family circumstances have me a little unsure of the timing, but I know God has written those kids on my heart, so I’ll keep progressing toward it in whatever ways I can until the vision becomes clear.

I’ve written a curriculum outline for the camp and proposed to it the leaders at our local children’s group home. They love it!  I’m nervous, but so excited to share our love of our farm and hopefully give the kids some much needed peace, relaxation, and distraction from the stress in their lives.

It’s thrilling to walk in God’s ideas that He’s laid out for us. With my health problems, baby on the way, and busy-time on the farm, I know it will be a challenge, but I have the confidence that God brings that it will go well! Prayers are appreciated for our family as we prepare and, of course, for the kids!

-Summit attendee, Missouri

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