Saying Yes to Hard: Foster Care, Community, and the 30 Percent Rule

Rick Morton, Emily Richards, and Herbie Newell sit down with Greyson Holt, a Lifeline family therapist in North Carolina, who is also a foster and adoptive mom and grew up as a sibling in an adoptive family. Greyson shares how a third-grade calling grew into a career, why the community around a family makes saying yes to a placement possible, and why counting the cost is faithful rather than faithless. The conversation covers TBRI in real kitchens, rupture and repair, the freedom of “getting it right 30 percent of the time,” and how sanctification and belonging, not just peace, shape the way we parent. Greyson also talks about anchoring her work as a Christian therapist in who we are in Christ.