God can turn the worst parts of your life into something good
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Your mission field is right in your backyard and at your kitchen table
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Your story matters
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God can turn the worst parts of your life into something good — Your mission field is right in your backyard and at your kitchen table — Your story matters —
TORI HOPE PETERSEN
Author + Bible Teacher + Advocate
I’m a storyteller who loves Jesus, is passionate about advocating for vulnerable children, and hosting people in my home. I’ve always felt a bit like an outsider. Maybe you have too. You are welcome here!
HI! I’M TORI.
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TORI’S BOOKS
SAFE HOUSE
BREAKING THE PATTERNS
THAT BREAK YOU
FOSTERED
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Tori with Streams Studio
Tori at Liberty University
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Consulting
Tori Hope Petersen partners with bipartisan leaders, faith-based nonprofits, churches, and policymakers to build innovative and effective foster care and child welfare programs that create lasting change for children and families.
Drawing from her lived experience and years of foster care advocacy, Tori helps organizations move from vision to action — designing practical programs and foster care trainings that meet real needs, strengthen families, and produce meaningful outcomes. She has been trusted to consult with countless churches and nonprofits on foster care program development, as well as White House policy staffers and members of Congress, bringing people together across political and organizational lines to develop solutions that make a lasting difference in the lives of children and families.
Speaking
Tori Hope Petersen is a leading foster care advocate and fundraiser for nonprofits and ministries serving vulnerable children and foster and adoptive families, helping organizations turn compelling missions into sustainable support and meaningful impact. She partners with organizations to strengthen fundraising efforts by sharing her powerful story from stages.
Tori also equips and empowers churches to meaningfully engage in foster care ministry and serving the most vulnerable. A sought-after Christian women's speaker, Tori shares her story and teaches at churches, women's conferences, nonprofits, and national gatherings.
Coaching
Tori Hope Petersen provides personalized coaching and guidance to families, former foster youth, adoptees, foster and adoptive parents, nonprofit leaders, churches, and others seeking to better understand and navigate foster care, adoption, and family relationships, and tell their stories.
Tori helps individuals and entire organizations build confidence, strengthen relationships, navigate complex conversations, and move forward with clarity and practical tools. Her coaching services include foster care training, staff trainings, facilitated and mediated conversations, group and individual coaching, and educational webinars designed to equip teams and communities to better serve children and families.
PodcastOTHER WAYS
TO TUNE IN
The I Love You Already podcast is where Tori brings real conversations about love, healing, faith, and what it looks like to leave this world better than you found it. New episodes weekly on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube.
RECENT EPISODES
Do You Know Your Neighbor’s Name?
How Can We Have Love & Healing in a Broken World?
You Will Be Remembered for the Way You Love
How to Find a Mentor & Love Your Age
Tell Your Story
READ & REFLECT GUIDE
Get Tori Hope Petersen’s free 13-page Tell Your Story Read & Reflect Guide to help you uncover and confidently share the story within you. Through five practical steps and thoughtful reflection questions, you’ll move from feeling stuck to taking meaningful steps toward sharing your story through conversations, speaking, or writing your book, all to encourage and serve others.
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