Interview: Grace, "Villages", and Good, Old-Fashioned Hope With Andy Cook

Meet, Andy Cook. 


Well, actually meet Andy, Martha, and more kids than most kids
can count! But, we're going to hear more about these beautiful
people from Andy.


Andy is the President and CEO of Promise686, an organization that
assists families and churches to care for vulnerable children by
providing financial assistance, community support, and adoptive
and foster care related education. (You probably know about our
partnership with Promise686.)


Andy shares the story of receiving a daring text from his wife
that changed his life forever, the systems in place around foster
care, the holidays for a family of twelve and how life is full of
incredible hope when it is rooted around family.
 
Take the time to listen in and hear an incredibly moving story
that speaks to the truths and misconceptions around foster care in
georgia.

 


 
Key Quotes:

"We want to give people as many opportunities for engagement,
even small engagement, as we can so that they get hooked. We want
these children to capture their hearts. We want to see hundreds
of families wanting to step in to take care of foster care
children.">  > "We look at the church community and
think we need to help get them out of their pew, and put them in
a place where they can serve. They need a road map to get there
and some tools to make it work, and we can help">  >
"The foster care conversation has historically been about
becoming a foster parent, but there are all these other roles. We
target communities and invite them to serve. First of all you can
do research on your own.">  > "My baby girl is not a
number. She is not a statistic. Someone advocated for her. It
wasn't about let's fix the foster care problem in Georgia. It's
about actual kids."
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Links to Learn More:

FosterGeorgia.com

Promise686.org

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