How can you support the kids and families in need around you?

In this episode, Jeff and Phil discuss:

• Building a business with spiritually aligned partners.
• Utilizing a leveraged buyout with your employees so everyone has ownership.
• Being drawn into foster and orphan care with a Godly heart.
• Orphan care domestically and internationally.
• How God blesses a giving spirit.

Key Takeaways:

• Treat your employees generously. Your assets are your people. Treat people generously in a way that they would never want to leave.
• Take your skills and talents and apply them to kingdom work. It may be within business, it may be in advocacy. People have a need for your skills.
• Everybody can do something to help support kids in need.
• Making giving a priority - God keeps His promises and will care for you if you give in faith.

"We've been redeemed. And we're in the business of redemption. Foster care and adoption and caring for the moms and dads and the families is really a deep part of that." — Phil Goad

Episode References:

• Family Life: https://www.familylife.com/
• Every Child Arkansas: https://everychildarkansas.org/
• Restore Hope: https://www.restorehope.io/
• 100 Families Initiative: https://www.restorehope.io/100families

About Phil Goad: Dr. Goad and his wife, Starla, have three children and 10 grandchildren. Phil is a Court Appointed Special Advocate in the foster care program in Pulaski and Perry Counties, Arkansas. Dr. Goad also serves as Chair of the Every Child Arkansas (ECA) Executive Leadership Council. ECA is a state-wide network of advocates, agencies and other organizations working together in trust-building collaboration to fill the biggest gaps in foster care and adoption in Arkansas. Phil and Starla serve with organizations involved in care of orphans and vulnerable children in the US and around the world. They are actively involved in their church and love to teach and mentor others who share a desire to follow in the steps of Jesus Christ. They have a passion for marriage ministry and are long-time supporters of FamilyLife, previously headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas. In 2021, Dr. Goad retired from CTEH, LLC, an environmental and public health consulting firm, where he served as Co-Founder, CEO and Principal Toxicologist. CTEH is a national leader in helping governments, businesses and communities prepare for, respond to, and recover from natural and man-made disasters. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from Harding College in Searcy, Arkansas (1977) and a Ph.D. degree in Interdisciplinary Toxicology from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (1982). Starla received a bachelor’s degree in Home Economics from Harding College (1976).

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