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But for Becky, this is more than just a mission. It's personal. Let's get into the story. Here's Becky. If I hugged my mother and said, I love you, mama, she would push me away and say, I really wish you had never been born.
She slept a lot, she stayed in bed a lot, she took a lot of volume. But when she was awake and kind of engaged She was just violently abusive. There were five of us kids and I was the second to the youngest. Oftentimes, even though we did receive assistance from the government, which is why we didn't starve to death. We would still go days without eating.
I don't remember if it was once a month or quarterly or what it was. We'd have to go visit the social worker at the courthouse. Before we did that, though, that morning my mother would make sure we were bathed and our hair was clean and our bodies were clean, our clothes were clean. She would give us a spoonful of dry oatmeal. and a drink of milk.
So that when we went to the social worker's office and she said, What did you have for breakfast? I would say, oatmeal and milk. And doesn't that sound wholesome?
So strangely enough, she had favorites.
So my baby brother And my sister, that was just a year older, or just five years older than me, were the two kids that she probably doted over, I would say. And then Myself and my other sister, she did not. She was very physically abusive. Oftentimes if she was feeling Frustrated or angry, whether it be at me or somebody else, she would have me stripped down. to my underwear.
and have me get up on a bed. and she put a box faint in the window. And for the longest time, I did not understand that. I thought she did that to drown out my cries and my screams, but she did it because she was hot. While she was doing it, she would sweat and Wipe the sweat from her brow while she was doing it, and then she'd pick back up and.
There were times when I would pass out while she was doing this, and I would come to, and she was resting. and she would just stand up and get at it again. You know, we were a sight. I mean we were poor. We were dirty, we were hungry, so the kids I'm sure we were all malnourished, including my mother.
And I'll never forget we were we were walking we were walking to town and I was sitting on top of the dirty clothes in a wagon. We were walking to the laundromat. And this big fancy car drives by us, and this lady's got her hair piled up as high as it could be. I just remember it vividly. She turned around and she came back and said, Where are you guys headed?
My mother said we're going to the laundromat and she said, well, why don't I give you all a ride? And she just loaded up us and our mess and our filth and our just so much dysfunction. She did that and then she began to take us to church. And I remember her feeding us that day and just such a such a powerful memory as a little girl. And I went to church and I learned about Jesus, and then I really truly began to believe I was his favorite.
I saw him. As my ABBA, as my father. And so when my mother would go off on these tangents where she would just really unleash her anger and frustration on me as a little girl. She would hit until she was too tired to go on and she was just physically exhausted. and she would stand up and take a deep breath.
And just let it like. Yeah. And she would just walk away almost like she was defeated. It was so interesting as an adult who's been like the Lord has healed, and I have freedom and the forgiveness that I've given her. It's very different when I think about it in that perspective.
As a little girl, I didn't understand it all. I thought I was a horrible kid. I thought I was going to hell. I thought I was demon-possessed at times because she would always scream and say there were demons in me and she was going to beat them out of me. And so, as a little girl, there was a lot of war, you know, battle going on in my own head, even as a child.
And so, she would walk away very defeated, as if she was very defeated, and go lay down in another room. And I would listen for her. deep breathing. knowing that she had gone to sleep. and then I'd get up, my body still shaking with sobs, and I would put my clothes back on, and I would go out in the back yard and I would lay in the grass, or I would swing.
And if I was swinging, I would pretend that I was jumping out of the swings into the arms of. And my dad. of the Lord. And there were times when I would lay in the backyard in the grass, and I would be like talking to the Lord and going, You know, God someday. I would really like a new mom and dad and some new brothers and sisters.
And then while I'm talking about like while I'm asking Dad, I'd really like some horses too. And When I was probably about 11 years old, my sister, who had run away, again, she's only five years older than me.
So if I'm 11, she's what? Mm. Fifteen, sixteen. She had been a prostitute, which she was just a child, but she had been trafficked and. Came home and she began to.
I watched her rebel against my mother, and so I began to rebel with her. And then I went into this world that was, and it's it is truly the grace of God. that I was not trafficked. I started getting involved with a little bit of drugs and just different things like that. And this feisty old social worker that I used to have to go see as a child, who I was dreadfully afraid of.
began to get involved in my life again. I did not like her one bit. I thought she was a hateful old hag. Ah! And I'm now so thankful for her.
Mrs. Brewer began to get involved, and she would have police come and pick me up from things and put me in jail. And then she'd come see me, and all the police officers would bring me snacks and be like, Golly, I can't imagine my kid being in jail at your age. And I bet your mom's worried sick. No, she wasn't worried.
Well, the social worker, feisty old lady. Um, she plucked me out of there. Mm-hmm. And she took me to a children's home in Oklahoma. And I was both thrilled and terrified because of the unknown.
I remember driving up, it was on a Wednesday in the summer of like, I think 1981. And then I remember going out to the playground. Of course, everybody's wanting to know who the kid is, the new kid is, and everybody's talking to me and excited because there's somebody new. And then I hear something off in the distance, and I'm like, what is that noise? and as it gets closer I look up and it's a man on a horse.
and it would be years later. that I realized that in my backyard as I Cried and tears still drying on my cheeks, and sobs still shaking my body. And I asked God for a new mom and dad, and new brothers and sisters. And oh, by the way. Can I have some horses too?
He gave all that to me. And so I thrived in that setting. Played sports and I did great in school. I remember making 100 on my first spelling test and going. You know, who knew I was smart?
Like, who knew I could spell? I graduated in 1988. And when I graduated from high school, The issue was is you couldn't stay at the children's home when you were Finished. You had to literally, you were aging out, you were going somewhere else. And so I knew I couldn't go home.
I didn't have a, I had tried to go home at one point, my junior year. I went back to my mother. Nobody met me at the bus station. I was seventeen years old, went to the town I grew up in, but it had been years since I'd been there. It was the middle of the night.
I got dropped off at this you know, in this town, in the dark, terrified. called a friend who I randomly remembered their phone number. They came and picked me up in the middle of the night, thank God. and then took me to this motel where my mother was staying and she Said, why are you here? What do you want?
I mean, I was still a kid. Just like, what do you want? And so I ended up placing myself back at that children's home. And then a year and a half later, I graduated from high school. I chose a Christian college because my house mom, my foster mom, was like adamant that I go to a Christian college and not a secular school.
And so I Ended up by Christmas pregnant and married in that order. And at Bible College, that is like, you know. And you're listening to Becky Schaefer share her story. and no wonder she has such a heart. for young people aging out of the foster system.
Her story is just harrowing. I wish you'd never been born, her mom would tell her. when she would say, I love you, mamma. And yet there's that grace, that woman in that car. who showed that grace and that love, introduced her to church to the Lord, When we come back, we continue with Becky Schaefer's story.
Here. On Our American Stories.
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When we last left off, Becky was describing her horrible childhood. and left off telling us that after she went to college, she got pregnant. married to her husband Kent, and by Christmas in that order. That wasn't the only big thing that would happen during that time period, though. And the next big thing would lead to the creation of saving grace.
Let's return to the story here again. is Becky Schaefer. We'd been married for maybe a year and a half and decided we wanted to be foster parents.
So we went into childcare at that point. And I've gone back to our foster girls. We've mostly just had girls in our home. But I've gone back to them and said, I'm so sorry because I bet I was a wreck. I'm s I'm sure of it.
I like. I had so much trauma that I was dealing with and then I was dealing with their trauma. I'm sure I did not do that exactly right. But as we were fostering, we began to see this trend. that was there the whole time.
I just hadn't seen it. Of these girls leaving our home and doing exactly what I did when I went to college. Most of the time getting pregnant, most of the time. ending up in a situation where they have zero supports. And so, in about 2006, the Lord began to plant the seed in my heart that I was supposed to do this.
And I didn't even know what this was. I just knew that It I remember not understanding how could I have gone through this. and not figure this out for these kids. You know, people want to harp on foster care. They want to harp on the system.
They want to About DHS and all they're not doing. But the truth is, these are just people, these are just human beings doing jobs. And they are overrun. Their plates are full. They're going home devastated about whatever story they had to hear that day that is unspeakable.
They're sleeping in their offices with these children, leaving their own kids at home. It's a really messed up system. And so we just started praying and asking God for wisdom, and we just went, okay. We're going to do something different. I began to put information like I would watch a movie or I'd read a book, try to research what's happening to kids when they age out.
And honestly, there was almost no information into it in 2006. You could find transitional living programs for adults with special needs, but there was nothing for kids that were aging out of the foster care system.
So I just began to research and I'd put things in this file that I kept called Rebecca's Hope. thought one day we're going to do something I'll be able to glean from all these things that I've learned. And we moved in 2008, we moved to Northwest Arkansas, and it was a wild and crazy time. My time there in two thousand seven I began to tell the truth about some sexual abuse that I had endured as a child. Oh my goodness.
I was tired. I was weary. And I remember asking the Lord before we moved, Lord, can I have a sabbatical? And I didn't really know what that meant. I'm a 2-7 on the Enneagram, and so like I'm an enthusiastic helper.
So if I'm gonna teach Sunday school, we're gonna have a party every week. I mean, like, that's just who I am. And so he put my heart, like, he just put some slumber on my soul. That did not get involved at our church. We would sit on the back row at that church that we began to attend, and both Kent and I would just cry.
People talk about going to church and leaving your armor at the door and letting the Lord spiritually work out the dents. And I don't even know if we had any armor left. Anyway, my daughter, our middle daughter, who is Autistic, and an incredible artist. Had made a clay figure for me back in 2007 when I told the truth about this abuse that I had. And she called this little clay figure of this woman who was down on her knees with her arms stretched up towards heaven.
She called her courage. And so one day, and this was still in 2008, in October of 2008. I remember in October going, Lord, like, when am I going to know when my sabbatical is over? When am I going to know? when I'm supposed to start getting involved again.
And I had done nothing about saving grace at all, just nothing. And so I'm laying on my bed. I don't know, I was probably watching TV. My middle child comes in. And she goes, Hey mom, and she starts talking to me just about stuff going on at school.
She's in middle school. And I finally just said, Sweet, you gotta go to bed. And she's autistic, so she's very you know, she's scattered, she's ADHD, and she's an amazing young woman. And I'm trying to get her to leave my room, and she turns around one more time. And I'm by this time, I'm like going, I'm gonna get up.
Like, if you don't get out of my room, I'm gonna get up and push you out the door and shut it. She goes, wait, mom, wait, just wait a minute. And she walks over to my dresser and she picks up that little clay figure and she goes, Mom. Your courage is covered in cobwebs. You need to dust it off.
I just put it down and walked out. And it was like a moment where the Holy Spirit made eye contact with me. And I knew It was time. to get up. I remember at the beginning, it was January of 2009, and I had been working at Hobby Lobby for minimum wage at part-time.
In the fabric department, and we were a family of five, we didn't have much money. And uh, Kent, he was sitting down with me. Our kids were already off to school, and we were having coffee, and he said, you know.
So what do you think you want to do with your life? And I was like, what do you mean? And he said, well, We really can't afford for you to like Cut fabric at Hobby Lobby anymore part-time for minimum wage. And I was like, Oh, well, remember I'm doing this thing called saving grace? And he goes, That's going to take like five years to get up off the ground.
We don't have a 501c3, we're not incorporated, we don't have a board, we don't know anybody. We just moved here and What was incredible It wasn't at the time. I actually cried. But he said, I need you to figure out what you want to do. If we want to do this thing, you can work on that, you know, like over here on the side.
But if you want to go to school, maybe I'll support you in that. And I just said, could you just pray and ask God? that if this is what I'm supposed to do, that he'll send us a sign, it'll be real obvious.
So my realist husband said yes, and he bowed his head and with his tongue in his cheek said, Oh, by the way, Lord, could you please send us a sign, wink, wink, if Becky's supposed to do this. I went to work that day and this lady At the fabric counter was talking to me, and I began to kind of share some ideas about centerpieces for her. She was doing a retirement thing for her husband. And so I was telling her how I knew how to do these things and where I worked at this children's home. had done events and didn't have a budget, so if I wanted flowers I picked them.
And she started saying, Well, I helped start an organization that helped when children have been victims of abuse. And so I was like, Oh, well, I want to do this thing called Saving Grace. And I began to tell her about this. She was my very first customer that day, and she was like, Oh my goodness, you have to do this.
So she started writing down names and numbers and you know emails and all of that. And I was just like. Lord, like I can't believe you just, like, that quick, you sent me a sign that fast.
Well, I was floating around the department. fabric department until I went on my lunch break and I go on my lunch break and I'm like See this lady walk in, and I'm like, I'm still kind of happy. And then I was like, oh no, I've messed up her fabric. I've done something. It was the lady that had written down all those names and numbers.
And she said, no, you didn't do anything wrong. Sit back down. I need to tell you something. I said, okay. And she said, I was at another store.
And the Holy Spirit really pressed upon me that I was supposed to get this for you. And she said, I had somebody get a ladder and get it down. And she handed me a four-foot-long sign that said, Amazing Grace. It literally last year dawned on me and Kent that the Lord sent a sign for me. And then my husband needs a 2x4.
He literally got a 2x4 sign that he asked for. And we started taking steps of faith. to go toward making this happen. That was January 6th of 2009 by November. of 2009 we were ready to open fully funded for the year.
Fully furnished in an 8,000 square foot former convent.
Well, fast forward to now, we have over 150 applicants a year.
So. If there's a dream that God's putting in your heart, just write it down. Go for it. The story of saving grace. The story of Becky Schaefer and so many other kids who need the love of strangers.
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