This book is about avoiding or overcoming unhealthy dependency in the Christian movement. It contains a description of the dependency syndrome, its historical development and how to overcome it. ...
Churches and individual Christians typically have faulty assumptions about the causes of poverty, resulting in strategies that do considerable harm to poor people as well as to themselves. When ...
"A child's life doesn't begin at adoption, and neither should his adoption story. This charming, delightful narrative of a Russian adoption contrasts a child's life before and after adoption in ways ...
This article by CAFO President Jedd Medefind " tackles the issue of whether government or faith-based and other nonprofits should play the central role in aiding the destitute."
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This article offers great encouragement for anyone who has ever despaired that simply visiting orphans is not enough:
A Curious Injunction
The response to orphans in the New American Standard ...
I realize now that when we first brought our children home I had an undefined but deeply felt and well-meant desire. However, I have also realized that my desire was not exactly what God had in ...
So often the wait for our children to come home seems so long, but the Lord never wastes time! Here are some ideas to make the time fruitful by building up your family even before your adoption. You ...
This curriculum by JP Sibley will help equip and mobilize high school students to care for orphans. The multiple lessons would be great to use at a student ...
This short video by World Orphans examines the how the orphan crisis relates to issues such as HIV/AIDS, child trafficking, prostitution, gangs, drugs, poverty and ...
In response to meltdowns, emotional outbursts, extreme neediness, and many other behavioral challenges, adoptive and foster parents are often left asking: "why won't my child act his or her ...
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Wildlife Storytellers - different soft, furry animals - share Bible stories with children and adults around the world in their own native tongue.
These stuffed tigers, ...
Join Jenni Means as she shares keys to bringing hope and healing to adopted children. Great session for English speakers to watch, since it is in both English and Russian. This session ...
The purpose of this document is to stimulate discussion among churches, their members, and their communities about their various potential roles in supporting the World Without Orphans (WWO) ...
Why doesn’t our child return our love? What are we failing to understand? What are we failing to do? These questions can fill the minds of adoptive parents caring for wounded, traumatized ...
Not every family is called to foster or adopt, but we can all be a blessing to the foster and adoptive families in our community, providing much needed (and often lacking) support. The webinar ...
Orphan Sunday began in a hard-pressed church in Zambia. From small beginnings, Orphan Sunday spread to America, and then echoed back across the seas. In 2013, Orphan Sunday will be ...
I experienced a brand new, ‘first time in my life’ twice during the past month: I received text messages that looked like this:
Now, what was totally new is that it was not the ...
Zambia’s Gift to the World features captivating images, interviews and music from Christians in Zambia, where the first Orphan Sunday was celebrated in 2002. It also includes glimpses of ...
