We believe it is critically important that parents who are preparing to adopt or foster a child must be honest and realistic about the journey and the challenges that lie ahead. Just as Jesus in ...
In this article, Christian Alliance for Orphan's Jedd Medefind tackles head-on the deeply mistaken perception that churches must choose between orphan ministry and rock-solid commitment to ...
Before you make the decision to adopt it's wise to know how adopting will affect your daily life. How will it affect your other children and your marriage? What will be the roll of the birth ...
In The Adoption Network, Laura Christianson, founder and director of Seattle-based Heartbeat Ministries, walks you through the basics of planning and launching a support system for adoptive ...
The adoption of a child is always a joyous moment in the life of a family. Some adoptions, though, present unique challenges. Welcoming these children into your family--and addressing their special ...
In The Connecting Link: What Parents Need to Bring Healing to Their Children, delivered at the 2009 Tapestry Adoption & Foster Care Conference, Dr. Purvis provides parents with a better ...
All families at times face struggles and difficulties, but for families who adopt or foster children who have come from the "hard places", those struggles and difficulties are often greatly increased ...
According to Together for Adoption's Dan Cruver, "in his book Knowing God the Father Through the Old Testament, Christopher Wright has a very helpful section entitled “God—The Father Who ...
If you missed the Christian Alliance for Orphan's webinar on financial challenges in adoption and how the church can respond, then you can go back and listen to it here:
The Financial ...
This book by Katherine Paterson tells the story of a young girl in the American foster care system who is passed around from home to home. Though written for 9-12 year olds, it contains many themes ...
These resources explore the situation of children living in orphanages, some of the factors contributing to their placement there, and the grave consequences this can pose for them emotionally, ...
This article, which appeared in the New Yorker in early May, 2010 tells the true story of a family whose adoption of a Haitian girl through Holt International was processed in the aftermath of the ...
Dr. Susan Hillis of the CDC shares the most up-to-date government statistics on the magnitude of the orphan problem, as well as offers hope for potential solutions. Video footage from the 2009 ...
Every foster parent knows how hard, yet rewarding, it can be to care for a child with a difficult past and an uncertain future. Christie Erwin has been a mom, in the middle, for countless ...
This revised edition of the companion volume to The Out-of-Sync Child includes new activities that parents of kids with Sensory Processing Disorder can do at home with their child, along ...
This week the Christian Alliance for Orphans hosted the Post Placement Journey webinar. Dr. Karyn Purvis and Amy Monroe provided practical insights and resources to equip adoption and foster care ...
This great article by Together for Adoption's Dan Cruver talks about the importance of understanding our vertical adoption (by God) before we think about horizontal ...
A 2002 nationwide survey commissioned by The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption revealed many interesting things regarding Americans’ views and attitudes about adoption. One finding was ...
In a world where suffering and injustice abound, we yearn for evidence that God has not forgotten His children, that He knows each one by name. We, long, too, to know that God guides and directs our ...
