Everyone Needs Someone Who Cares: Adrien Lewis & Cara Finger
Jesus Calling: Stories of Faith
Jesus Calling
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🗓️ 10 October 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
This week, we explore how two individuals answered the call to serve those in need, and how their actions have sparked movements of care and compassion that are changing lives one small step at a time.
We’ll hear from Adrien Lewis, a devoted husband, father, and founder of CarePortal, an innovative platform that connects churches and communities to families in need. Adrien shares how a mission trip to Haiti transformed his life, shifting his perspective and leading him to put his faith into action.
Later in the episode, we'll hear from Cara Finger, a foster and adoptive mom who—after witnessing children in foster care carry their belongings in trash bags—felt compelled to create My Bag My Story. This ministry provides quality bags for these children, giving them dignity and a sense of belonging during their most challenging transitions.
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Interview Quotes:
“I think God just gave us a bigger vision for our lives, a bigger purpose than we had before. We started to think about ourselves and what we could be part of to change the world, and how much that mattered to us, how much we wanted that, and how much we knew that Jesus wanted that for us.” - Adrien Lewis
“Everybody has a chance at transformation. And connection is the thing that changes everything.” - Adrien Lewis
“When we became foster parents, every child that came to us came through our door carrying their belongings. We were handed either a grocery sack, a trash bag, or nothing carrying the children's belongings, and it kept bothering me.” - Cara Finger
“Having a bag to carry your stuff in, to carry your belongings in is so important. It is very, very important for kids. If you are made to leave your home in the middle of the day or in the middle of the night, how some of these kids do, it's one simple thing that can make a child feel valued and seen.” - Cara Finger
“Even though a bag seems really small, it makes a huge difference in a child's dignity and their organization and feeling like they have something to call their own, to carry their belongings in.” - Cara Finger
“It is very important to give our life away somehow. We were not meant to not live in community. Everybody needs everybody.” - Cara Finger
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| 0:37.2 | We all have the opportunity to see and serve our neighbors, to love people like we love ourselves. |
| 0:46.2 | And the question really is, what's in my hands, |
| 0:50.3 | what's in my heart, what's in my face? Where is the opportunity? The worst thing we can do is get frozen because we can't do everything. |
| 1:01.0 | Best thing we can do is start with what we have and serve the person |
| 1:06.6 | that's closest to us. |
| 1:09.5 | Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast. This week we explore how two individuals answered the call to serve those in need and how |
| 1:16.7 | their actions have sparked movements of care and compassion that are changing lives one small step |
| 1:21.5 | at a time. |
| 1:30.0 | We'll hear from Adrian Lewis, a devoted husband, father, and founder of Care Portal, an innovative platform that connects churches and communities to families in need. |
| 1:34.3 | Adrian shares how a mission trip to Haiti transformed his life, shifting his |
| 1:38.8 | perspective and leading him to put his faith into action. |
| 1:42.6 | Later in the episode, we'll hear from Kara Finger, |
| 1:45.4 | a foster and adoptive mom who, |
| 1:47.6 | after witnessing children in foster care, |
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