Ministry families and adopting and foster care - with Sarah and Mat Yeo and Matthew Wilcoxen

The Pastor's Heart with Dominic Steele

How do you balance the instability and chaos of external ministry with adding a foster child or adopted child to a ministry family?
What are the implications of taking children in crisis into the ministry home?
What motivates ministry families to become foster parents or to adopt?
How do older children and the church respond?
Sarah and Mat Yeo serve at Hurstville Grove Anglican Church in Sydney
Matt Wilcoxen pastors St John’s Darlinghurst in inner Sydney.
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1. Ministry families and adopting and foster care - with Sarah and Mat Yeo and Matthew Wilcoxen (00:00:00)

2. Pastors Discuss Foster Care and Adoption (00:00:38)

3. The Complex Journey of Foster Care (00:17:02)

4. Children's Book for Foster Care (00:27:56)