Now, I realize now that this was a simple answer... but for some reason I could never put mission and foster care together.
Well foster care is a secular establishment right?
How do I pray with and talk about God to my clients? Is that allowed? So I sort of dismissed the whole premise of God being anything other than my personal faith and conviction.
I was praying today, and i've been talking about lately... I want to be a radical case manager. I want to missionally provide services to my clients (the children) and their parents. I might be the only kind person who cares about their well-being that they have ever met. It doesn't matter what I have been trained to think about people who are in foster care (even though I was one, I still have evil stigmas... they are hard to rid of, I'll give myself that one to work on)...
It doesn't matter what they've done, or what they are doing now... My job is to give them hope and a positive outlook on their future. It might not be their season to "turn their life around." It might not ever come... but do I really want to add to everything else that has brought them to this point?
As a follower of Christ, I want to learn how to love them unconditionally and to impact their lives in positive ways.
two steps forward, three steps back
Babs
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Foster care is a awesome mission field!