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Running Toward tells the stories of ordinary people who couldn’t look away once they saw the hidden crisis in foster care and family.Each episode features honest, unfiltered stories from ordinary people who couldn’t look away once they saw the hidden crisis impacting children and families in their own communities. People living normal lives who took imperfect, often reluctant steps toward brokenness — and were changed by it.This is not a podcast about quick fixes or heroic solutions.It’s about the long, costly, deeply human work of preventing family fracture and supporting families.
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Contact path
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Booking probability
31%
Guest openness
Selective
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Signup to Generate a PitchRunning Toward tells the stories of ordinary people who couldn’t look away once they saw the hidden crisis in foster care and family. Each episode features honest, unfiltered stories from ordinary people who couldn’t look away once they saw the hidden crisis impacting children and families in their own communities.
Recent episodes include "“You’re the Only Dad I Got” | Pastor Ed" (28 October 2026, 54 minutes), "More Than Just Mentors, We Became Their Parents | Randy" (21 October 2026, 36 minutes), and "Still Changing Diapers At 60 | John" (14 October 2026, 45 minutes).
Running Toward publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 50 minutes across 42 episodes.
Booking probability for Running Toward is 31%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Running Toward requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Running Toward's contact route on record: public web form.
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Running Toward is a religion podcast with 42 episodes published.
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Episode #42
Pastor Ed Newton of Community Bible Church and his wife Stephanie had three biological children when they felt called to adopt — a journey that took them from a closed door in Haiti to a two-year-old boy in Ethiopia...
Pastor Randy Garcia has spent nearly 40 years leading in San Antonio — first as the founding pastor of 316 Church, now as executive pastor alongside his son, lead pastor Randall Shawn Garcia — but he’s honest that for...
Episode #40
Father John Sweeney of Christ the Servant Church joins guest host Mike Kraft for Pastor Appreciation Month to share a story that spans 38 years of marriage, seven children by birth and adoption, and one more — a foster...
Episode #39
Pastor Robert Balfour of Grace Northridge sits down with guest host Mike Kraft for a special Pastor Appreciation Month conversation about saying yes to foster care from the pulpit. Robert and his wife Lauren first felt...
Episode #38
Pam Snook already had triplet sons and two adopted daughters when a phone call from a woman she'd barely met — a virtual stranger who'd been told Pam was "next on the kinship list" — pulled her into the hardest case of...
Episode #37
essica thought her husband was describing summer camp when he mentioned his "dorm parents" — it took years before she understood he and his two brothers had actually grown up in a residential children's home in West...
Episode #36
Lauren and Hans never went looking for foster care — foster care found them through their church, first as a two-week favor for friends heading to Hawaii, then as a "just a few days" respite placement for a 14-year-old...
Episode #35
Denise became a relative caregiver the way most grandparents do — with a phone call she never expected. Over the years she took in four grandchildren born into crisis, including a grandson who weighed just 10 pounds at...
Episode #34
Samantha never planned on foster care — it wasn't even on her radar until her husband Ryan stumbled across a website and discovered how badly foster families were needed. What started as a backup plan to grow their...
Mike Kraft and his wife Ariel have been fostering and adopting for nine years — long enough to learn that when the gavel drops, the story doesn't end, it just gets harder to explain. Mike, a pastor and part of the South...
Episode #32
Welcome to the Running Toward Podcast! Today we sit down with Mercedes Bristol — founder and Executive Director of Texas Grandparents Raising Grandchildren — a woman who went from planning a vacation to Alaska to...
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Welcome to the Running Toward Podcast! Today we sit down with Kizzie — a kinship caregiver who said yes before she even thought about the logistics. She'd spent time on the supervised visits side of foster care...
Episode #29
Welcome to the Running Toward Podcast! Today we sit down with Melody — a board member of the South Texas Alliance for Orphans who has been in the foster care world longer than most, and not by choice. When Melody was...
Episode #29
Welcome to the Running Toward Podcast! Today we sit down with Lisette — a NICU nurse, school employee, wife to Nino, and mom of three. Lisette's story didn't start with a calling to foster care. It started with...
Welcome to the Running Toward Podcast! Today we sit down with Jocelyn and Klarissa — two women on opposite ends of the same foster care story, sharing it together for the first time. Jocelyn and her husband took baby...
Welcome to the Running Toward Podcast! Today we sit down with Kendall — an occupational therapist, business owner, mom of two teenagers, and foster mom to five kids who came through her home over the years. Kendall...
Episode #25
Welcome to the Running Toward Podcast! Today we get a perspective we haven't heard before — a woman who's lived this story from three different angles. Natalee was adopted as a baby, grew up knowing she was loved and...
Episode #24
Welcome to the Running Toward Podcast! June is our dad takeover — a whole month of stories from foster fathers to honor Father's Day and to let their honesty do what it does for another man sitting on the edge of this...
Episode #24
<p>Welcome to the Running Toward Podcast! June is our dad takeover — a whole month of stories from foster fathers to honor Father's Day and to let their honesty do what it does for another man sitting on the edge of...
Episode #23
<p>Welcome to the Running Toward Podcast! This June we're doing a dad takeover — a whole month of conversations with foster and adoptive fathers to honor Father's Day and to let their stories do what only a man's story...
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Department Head of Animal Sciences at Iowa State University, LaRouche Organization
Texas Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
South Texas Alliance for Orphans
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