Episode # 50 // No Matter Where I Go: Fostering Hope with Maria Roy
This week’s guest is Maria Roy. She is a registered nurse and a bio, foster, and adoptive mother. She is also the author of the book One Day at a Time:A Story About Big Feelings, Foster Care, and Finding Hope. In this conversation, we chat about her journey into foster care, the challenges and joys of parenting children from hard places, and the impact of her foster care on her family as a whole. She openly shares about the heartache of letting go and how these experiences have deepened her relationship with God. You will be so encouraged by her story!
This is the last episode of the podcast until the fall. Enjoy your summer, and we will talk soon, friends!
GUEST BIO
Maria Roy is married to Jeremiah, who serves as the lead pastor of their church campus. They are raising four incredible kids, three biological sons and our daughter through adoption (at times more through foster care). She also has the sacred privilege of working as a registered nurse with youth in therapeutic residential foster care.
Maria lives in Michigan, surrounded by a community passionate about caring for the one, especially those who are most vulnerable.
With a degree in communications and psychology, Maria’s writing is shaped by both education and lived experience as a nurse, mom, and foster parent. But more than anything, it’s shaped by her faith in God.
MEMORABLE QUOTES
I found out about foster care and I just could not look away.
I truly believe it (being a foster family) has made my kids like much better humans, much more empathetic, much more loving and much more aware of the hands-on of the gospel.
It's the goodness of God that brings people in.
Because if you read through the Bible...every single story is hardship.
God did not promise us this easy life.
Kids deserve to see themselves in stories.