The Adoption & Foster Care Journey

Episode 537 - Redemption Beyond Poverty & Foster Care with Lainie Hartley

The Adoption & Foster Care Journey

Show Notes

“I will restore to you the years the swarming locust has eaten…” -Joel 2:25

Welcome to The Adoption & Foster Care Journey—a podcast to encourage, educate and equip you as you care for children in crisis through adoption, foster care and kinship care.

On this episode host Sandra Flach talks with Lainie Hartley. Lainie is an author, speaker, foster and adoptive mom, and former foster youth whose voice carries the weight of lived experience and the hope of redemption. Through raw and deeply personal storytelling, she speaks about childhood neglect, trauma, grief, survival, and the God who still restores what was never supposed to be broken.

Listen to Lainie’s powerful story of healing and redemption on Episode 537 wherever you get your podcasts.

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Links mentioned in this episode: LainieHartley.com https://www.instagram.com/authorlainiehartley/ Lanie Hartley on Facebook See Available Trainings The Adoption & Foster Care Journey AFCJ on YouTube justicefororphansny.org justicefororphansny.org/hope-community Email: [email protected] sandraflach.com Soul Care Saturday—52 Devotions for Foster and Adoptive Moms Orphans No More—A Journey Back to the Father book on Amazon

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