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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
This adoption website provides great resources for families considering adoption in Canada. If offers everything from adoption basics to stories of families who have adopted. ...
For adoptive and foster parents, developing strong connections with children when they are young is often challenging. As children grow older, or when older children come into our families, these ...
