| Wished for You: an adoption story follows a conversation between Barley Bear and his Mama as they curl up in their favorite cuddle spot and discuss how they became a family. Barley asks Mama ... |
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| If You Were Mine is a 7-part adoption exploration workshop used by hundreds of churches and thousands of families investigating adoption from a biblical and practical perspective, exploring ... |
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| One adoption social worker called In On It "the adoption book for everyone else": the grandparents and friends, neighbors and colleagues, aunts and uncles, teachers and caregivers of adoptive ... |
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| How can we love with excellence the millions of orphaned and vulnerable children in our world who have lost their parents, have no relatives to love them well, and likely will not be adopted? How can ... |
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Nearly forty years after researchers first sought to determine the effects, if any, on children adopted by families whose racial or ethnic background differed from their own, the debate over ... |
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| Abandoned by his mother in a St. Petersburg dumpster when he was only three days old, Alex Krutov should not have survived. But God had something else in mind. Raised in the harsh Russian orphanage ... |
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This new 16 video series by Dr. Karyn Purvis (developed in partnership with the TCU Institute of Child Development) offers seven insights and seven gifts that are highly relevant for those who are ... |
Great paper on UNICEF & International Adoption from Dr. Elizabeth Bartholet, Harvard Law Professor. Read her abstract here, or click the link below to read her entire ... |
Each year, the IJM Global Prayer Gathering brings together staff and friends of IJM from all over the world to celebrate what God has done and ask for his continued help in bringing rescue and ... |
| I will never forget seeing her pull the measuring tape out of her purse as she talked about the skull of her child.
The woman, standing in an airport in Russia with my wife and me, was, like us, an ... |
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| This moving video tells one baby's story from the streets into a loving ... |
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| The Russian translation of The Jesus Storybook Bible by Sally Lloyd-Jones is now available for purchase in the States!
Every Story Whispers His Name…
Written for children ages ... |
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| Does the Church care for the World's children? The evidence on display tells a troubling story with an ever-increasing number of orphans in the world, kids aging out of foster care, AIDS babies in ... |
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| With great compassion and a tremendous heart for children, churches across the United States and throughout Africa are responding to the call of James 1:27. Journeys of Faith celebrates ... |
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| This webinar from the Christian Alliance for Orphans will address ways the church in the US can more effectively partner with indigenous churches around the ... |
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| "There must be more to the Christian life than this--more than church each Sunday and waving to my neighbors and giving some clothes to Goodwill when I go through my closet each spring."
These ... |
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| This article by Dr. Russell Moore addresses what some view as the dichotemy between focusing on justice and social issues or focusing on evangelism:
Some evangelicals talk as though personal ... |
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This video tells the story of Karrington, a girl from Oklahoma who spent years in the foster system before finally receiving her forever ... |
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| Since 2005, Safe Families for Children has offered sanctuary to thousands of children, minimizing the risk for abuse or neglect and giving parents the time and tools they need to help their families ... |
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Connection is at the heart of how God relates to us and how He has called parents to relate to their children. Watch as Dr. Karyn Purvis explains why it is important for adoptive and foster ... |
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