Sunday Morning Magazine With Rodney Lear

·        Dorian and Azenae, Former Foster Children. Both Dorian and Azenae spent most of their childhood in the foster care system. The shared their personal account of what it’s like to be placed in multiple foster homes. They discussed their journey to be emancipated from the system at 18-years-old as well as their emotional story of survival. 

·        Ashley Irvine and Jade Callum, The Bair Foundation. For more than 50 years, The Bair Foundation has remained steadfast and responsive in its work to bring about meaningful change in the lives of America’s most vulnerable. As a Christian foster care agency, they have provided hope and stability to more than 250,000 children and families in crisis.  https://www.bair.org/

·        Tracy Cook, Executive Director, ProKids. ProKids has served thousands of abused and neglected children in Hamilton County since its founding in 1981, thanks to a passionate staff, energetic volunteers and a committed community. https://prokids.org/

·        Peter Mutabazi, Foster and Adoptive Parent, Author, Now I Am Known: How a Street Kid Turned Foster Dad Found ACCEPTANCE and TRUE WORTH. Mutabazi grew up in an abusive home and spent most of his childhood on the streets of Uganda. He was helped by the kindness of strangers, received a formal education, and moved to the United States. Today, Mutabazi is a single father of two and foster dad to many. https://nowiamknown.com/

·        Jessica Thompson, Program Director of Foster Care & Adoption, Beech Acres Parenting Center. Jessica joins the show to talk about the foster care program offered through Beech Acres Parenting Center. ·        April, Foster and Adoptive Parent and Olivia, Foster and Adoptive Parent. Both April and Olivia are local foster parents. They join us to discuss their experiences as foster parents. https://beechacres.org/

Tameka Fryer Brown, Author, Twelve Dinging Doorbells. Tameka Fryer Brown is a picture book author who writes to sow seeds of self-love, pride, connectivity, and inclusion in the hearts of children. Her books (Brown Baby Lullaby, My Cold Plum Lemon Pie Bluesy Mood, and Around Our Way on Neighbors’ Day) have won awards like the Charlotte Zolotow Honor Award and the Anna Dewdney Read Together Award, and have been honored on best book lists by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center, New York Public Library, Bank Street College, NPR, Parents Latina Magazine, The Little Free Library, and more.

Trinka Hakes Noble, Author, Miss Mary’s Christmas Mittens. Trinka Hakes Noble is the award-winning author of numerous picture books including The Orange Shoes (2007 National Parenting Publications Awards Honors Winner), The Scarlet Stockings Spy (2005 IRA Teachers’ Choice), The Last Brother, and The Legend of the Cape May Diamond. Ms. Noble also wrote the ever-popular Jimmy’s Boa series and Meanwhile Back at the Ranch, both featured on PBS’s Reading Rainbow. Her many awards include ALA Notable Children’s Book, Booklist Children’s Editors’ Choice, IRA-CBC Children’s Choice, Learning: The Year’s Ten Best, and several Junior Literary Guild Selections.

E.G. Keller, Author, Murray Christmas. E.G. Keller is the illustrator of the New York Times #1 bestseller, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Presents A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo, and the picture book To the Moon and Back for You by Bravo star Emilia Bechrakis Serhant. As Gerald Kelley, he illustrated documentarian Ken Burns’ New York Times bestselling book, Grover Cleveland, Again!, and wrote and illustrated the picture book, Please Please the Bees, which won the 2017 Frances and Wesley Bock Book Award for Children’s Literature and was read aloud for Storyline Online by Rashida Jones.

Billy Sharff, Author, When Santa Came to Stay. Billy Sharff is an author who writes picture books and poems for kids of all ages. He lives in the woods of New Hampshire with his wife and two children. When he’s not writing stories, he makes movies, writes songs, and visits every bookstore he can find.

Jacki Kellum, Author, The Donkey’s Song: A Christmas Nativity Story. Jacki is a painter and writer who is currently working from her studio in the Ozark Mountains. Her debut picture book, The Donkey’s Song, was published in October of 2022, by Random House Children’s Books.

Alastair Heim, Author, No Peeking at Presents. Mr. Heim lives in Kansas City with his awesomely, awesome family who inspires him everyday. Laughter is his favorite sound, purple is his favorite color, and other-people-cooking-for him is his favorite food. He is a huge fan of music.

Jess Redman, Author, Season of Light. Jess Redman is a therapist and award-winning author of books for young readers.

• Dan Bremnes is an award-winning singer/songwriter, and Curb | Word Entertainment recording artist, hailing from Salmon Arm, British Columbia, Canada and currently residing in Nashville. His latest album, Into The Wild, featuring single, “Hold You Tight,” is available now. His music career commenced in 2010, with his album, Your Strength, that was independently released. He then released two independent singles, "Hear Your Voice" in 2012 and "After All" in 2013. During this time, Bremnes released an extended play, Light My Way, which was independently released on September 25, 2012. The extended play and singles got him Covenant Awards at the 35th Annual Awards in 2013 for Male Vocalist of the Year and Music Video of the Year for "This Life". The subsequent year, Bremnes was awarded at the 36th Annual Awards for having the Pop/Contemporary Song of the Year and Recorded Song of the Year for "Beautiful", where he received the Male Vocalist of the Year along with Artist of the Year. He signed to Sparrow Records

Lecrae is a Multi Grammy Award-winning platinum selling artist, New York Times best-selling author, entrepreneur, speaker, thought leader, and philanthropist and CoOwner/President of Reach Records, the recording home of Lecrae, Andy Mineo, Hulvey, 1K Phew, Tedashii, Trip Lee, Limoblaze, WHATUPRG and Wande. His 2014 album, Anomaly, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with nearly 100K copies sold through the first week, the first album to top both the Billboard 200 and the Gospel Charts simultaneously. To date, he has sold more than 3 million copies and been nominated for 7 Grammy Awards including a win for Best Gospel Album, 15 Dove Awards, one Billboard Music Award, and received both a Soul Train Music Award and BET Hip-Hop Nomination. His new album, Church Clothes 4 Mixtape, is available now.

Luke Smallbone, For King & Country. Joel and Luke Smallbone know how to spin a cocoon of sound that envelopes the listener, lace words of truth and use their voices to lift and inspire. For FOR KING + COUNTRY - the quadruple GRAMMY®-winning progressive pop artist-songwriters - what music can do, as a positive and emotional force in people’s lives, is what drives the Sydney, Australia-born, Nashville-based duo. Fearless and searching for not just commonality, but how we all can take the things that scar us and transform them to grow in love, FOR KING + COUNTRY offers rigorous engagement with the world.

Yolanda Adams, Singer/Songwriter, Actress. Billboard Magazine Gospel Artist of the last decade, Yolanda, is a five-time Grammy Award-winning vocalist who believes that her music heals, encourages, and inspires others to trust more than themselves. She has triumphantly carried the torch for the contemporary gospel and inspirational music via 13 glorious albums. Stunningly beautiful, exceptionally educated, filled with the spirit, and blessed with one of the most influential voices in any genre of music, this Houston native and one-time school teacher has been a stately beacon of God’s light. She has earned numerous accolades for her shining efforts, including the first American Music Award for Contemporary Gospel Artist and four Gospel Music Association Dove Awards. Her pioneering blend of the modern gospel with R&B, infused with a touch of jazz, continues to inspire her fans and transform the musical landscape.

The hospice you choose has an enormous impact on the end-of-life experience. TriHealth offers hospice services through the Hospice of Cincinnati, the most experienced, comprehensive hospice care in the area and the largest home care and long-term care program in southwest Ohio.

Clay Griffith, Advance Dentistry, Cincy Care to Share. Advance Dentistry and Eye Care on the Square are offering free healthcare services to those in need on October 28, 2022.

Mr. Belcuore joins the show to discuss Halloween traffic safety. According to Safe Kids Worldwide, children are more than twice as likely to be hit by a car and killed on Halloween than any other day of the year. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reports that Halloween is consistently one of the top three days of the year for pedestrian injuries and fatalities.

Genesis at Work’s mission is to bring together people with special needs and enlightened employers to create mutual enrichment through a supportive, faith-based approached. The inspiration behind the creation of the Genesis at Work Foundation is Scott, the son of Bryan Holland, founder and CEO of the Foundation. Pella Windows has signed on as a corporate sponsor to support the mission of the Foundation.