Peter and Kendra Amico on Giving Alliances, Foster Care, and Using a 501c3 for Spontaneous Giving
Finish Line Podcast Episode 22

Peter and Kendra Amico on Giving Alliances, Foster Care, and Using a 501c3 for Spontaneous Giving

You may want generosity to become a meaningful part of your everyday life, yet still find yourself balancing strategic giving, financial security, spontaneous needs, and the desire to use money wisely.

How can you build structures that loosen your grip on wealth while creating more freedom to respond generously to the people and causes God places in front of you?


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Meet your guide

Peter Amico, a health economist, and Kendra Amico, an emergency medicine physician and foster care advocate, share how renewed faith reshaped their approach to income, saving, family, and generosity. Living in Orlando with six children through birth, foster care, and adoption, they began intentionally resisting lifestyle growth as Kendra’s physician income increased and eventually committed to giving 40 percent of their income.

They explain how financial structures helped turn generosity into a regular practice. Their approach includes a financial finish line, donor advised fund, strategic giving focused on widows and orphans, and Pazar, a small nonprofit they created to facilitate spontaneous giving within their community. They also describe generosity as something larger than writing checks, including foster care, adoption, time, relationships, and inviting others into giving.

Throughout the conversation, Peter and Kendra show how generosity itself can become a form of discipleship. By the end, you may see financial limits and intentional giving not simply as money strategies, but as tools that can reshape your trust, priorities, family, and responsiveness to God.

What you’ll gain

  • How intentional giving structures can loosen your grip on wealth
  • Why generous habits can reshape your faith and priorities
  • How to balance strategic giving with spontaneous generosity
  • Why a financial finish line can challenge your need for control
  • How foster care expands generosity beyond simply writing checks
  • Why giving in community can deepen generosity and creativity

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Quotes to Remember

  • “It’s just fun to look for opportunities and then realize I can meet that need right now!”
  • “How can we start to give to people in our community who we wouldn’t have thought to give to before?”
  • “We were growing our trust in God that he is the ultimate one in charge, not us. And that responsibility is off my shoulders.”
  • “I think generosity is the single most important growth area in our Christian walk”
  • “It’s in losing your life that your really find it, and it’s not always in the way you would think.”

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Bible References from the Show

Proverbs 11:24 | One Gives Freely 24

One gives freely, yet grows all the richer;
    another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want.

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