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This webinar provides ideas for how to best harness the energy and excitement from Orphan Sunday. It offers practical next steps and building blocks for local church orphan ministry and ... |
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| 242. | | Communicating and Understanding
The other day I was searching for a website that gives voice to birthmothers desiring to reach out to the child she could not parent with words of ... |
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| 243. | | Giving ‘children from hard places’ the gift of voice allows them to replace fear with trust. Giving them voice enables them to learn how to ask for their needs appropriately. Giving them voice helps ... |
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| 244. | Food for Orphans mission is to provide food to as many orphans as possible. |
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| 245. | | This moving video was created by the Alliance for Ukraine Without Orphans in preparation for Orphan Sunday. You don't need to speak Russian to understand and be touched by the story conveyed ... |
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| 246. | | I played a cow in my first-grade Christmas pageant, and I had more lines than the kid who played Joseph. He was a prop, or so it seemed, for Mary, the plastic doll in the manger, and the rest of us. ... |
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| 248. | | Across the nations, God is pouring out his spirit to bring his Church into unity and strength. One important response to this outpouring is a mobilization to walk out James 1:27 and Malachi 4:6. ... |
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| 249. | | 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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| 250. | | Shaoey & Dot: Bug Meets Bundle is an endearing tale told from the point of view of one little ladybug, Dot, who happens upon a mysterious bundle one sunny day. Dot stays with the little ... |
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| 251. | | There is no such thing as a perfect parent -- and that is actually good news, so long as parents are willing to focus on repair when they fail and make mistakes.
Watch as Empowered to Connect's Dr. ... |
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| 252. | | Audio from Together for Adoption's 2011 conference in Phoenix is now being made available for free download.
Sessions available on audio include:
The Gospel, the Church, and Social Justice ... |
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| 253. | | Who is your child in Christ?
What is your child’s identity in Christ?
Who has God called your child to be?
What is the call of God on your child’s life?
When God looks at your sons and ... |
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| 254. | | 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 ... |
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| 255. | | Who is this child?
I heard once that personhood can be defined in three parts: (1) Identity, (2)Acceptance, (3) Approval. This intrigued me, as I have become increasingly convinced that ... |
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| 256. | | I remember one of the first prayers I prayed when we decided to adopt was about family unity. I felt a strong desire that we be one family, not split by the biological children and the ... |
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| 257. | | Combining four decades of fieldwork with cutting-edge research, Ron Boehme charts the waves of missions in history and reveals how the fourth wave will be unlike anything the world has ever seen. No ... |
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| 258. | | Several years ago, my wife and I, along with our three children, were sitting around the dinner table. Suddenly, my wife looked around and said, “I have the feeling we are not all here ... |
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| 259. | | 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 ... |
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| 260. | | Child Protection Services have been involved with Billy and his mother for some time now. He has been happily settled in a kinship placement with his grandmother and enjoys his pet cat, interacting ... |
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