When Roger Bechan was six, his mother packed his suitcase and told him they were going to Oklahoma City to visit an uncle. Instead, she took him to the Oklahoma Society for the Friendless, where he ...
Screening potential adoptive and foster parents is an extremely difficult task, yet many social workers who screen applicants and supervise placements have no written guide to aid in their decision ...
The mission of LSM is to nurture orphaned, at-risk and exploited children around the world to reach their full, God-given potential by placing or keeping them in permanent, godly families; providing them with Christ-like care; and mobilizing and empowering God’s people to do the same.
There are two movements within evangelicalism that are not only experiencing significant growth, but are also wonderfully merging together: the orphan care movement and the reemergence of a deep ...
When it comes to the issue of “talking” with your children about adoption or foster care, most parents immediately think in terms of what they should (and should not) say. However, effectively ...
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 ...
Together for Adoption is excited to announce that they have launched a new initiative: House Conferences. Their house conference initiative is an effort to bring teaching on God’s story of ...
In this radio broadcast from Focus on the Family, Debi Grebenik offers encouragement and guidance on how adoptive parents can better empathize with the unique difficulties their children are ...
Radical: In Radical, David Platt challenges you to consider with an open heart how we have manipulated the gospel to fit our cultural preferences. He shows what Jesus actually said about being ...
A Passion for the Fatherless, by Daniel Bennett, is written to help believers develop a God-centered ministry to the orphan. It exposes believers to the Scriptural mandate to care for orphans, ...
These handouts from Empowered to Connect's April, 2011 conference provide much-needed insight from adoption expert Dr. Karyn Purvis:
● Handout for The Attachment Dance
● Handout ...
Nutrition has been long overlooked as a key issue for foster and adopted children. New research shows that adopted children, even those who appear healthy, are often deficient in key nutrients that ...
Forgotten Voices is demonstrating the love of Jesus Christ by equipping local churches in southern Africa to meet the physical and spiritual needs of children orphaned by AIDS in their communities.
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. ...
