S2 EP10: Adoption/Foster-Care and the Church

In today's episode, we welcome Reverend Amy Bezecny from Cultivating Families as she discusses the current state of these areas and how faith communities can support adoption and foster care.  Tune in to learn how faith communities can make a difference!

www.cultivatingfamilies.org

Reverend Amy Bezecny developed Cultivating Families during her Hope and Healing Center and Institute fellowship. Before her fellowship, Amy worked at St. Luke’s UMC, where she launched their Adoption Ministry and was driven to help others do the same.

As Founder and CEO of Cultivating Families, she currently manages the organization’s daily operations, leads development, and delivers its programs and courses.

As a Deacon, she works tirelessly to expose the world’s needs to the church and the world to the church. Amy’s experience as a clergy member and church staff member enables her to understand the challenges of clergy demands, working with multiple generations, managing volunteers, and launching and sustaining adoption programs.

Where children are concerned, she believes working alongside people of other faiths is important. Amy’s colleagues know her as a passionate and persistent problem solver. Amy and her husband have been married for 36 years. Her son, adopted eighteen years ago at two, knows her as his biggest advocate.

Education and Ordination

May 1988 U of H – Bachelor of Fine Arts

May 2009 SMU, Perkins School of Theology - Master of Divinity (Cum Laude)

May 2012 Ordained Deacon in the UMC.

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