| 1. | | Dr. Karyn Purvis and Michael Monroe offer helpful insights and practical advice in response to the following questions that are commonly asked by adoptive and foster parents:
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| 2. | | This daily devotional book is written specifically for adoptive moms, by an adoptive mom Over the years, as Shelly has walked with countless adoptive families, she has heard their hearts. She ... |
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| 3. | | The problem is huge
There are over 132 million orphans around the world. These are children who have no one to care for them, and whom God has called his Church to care for (James 1:27). The ... |
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| 4. | | When most people reference the changing of the family structure, it’s usually a negative connotation—signifying the disintegration of the traditional family. But there’s another force at work ... |
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| 5. | | This article from www.viva.org gives five great ideas for how to reach out to kids around you as well as those across the world at Christmas.
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| 6. | | Center for Adoption Support and Education (C.A.S.E.) is pleased to present 52 Ways to Talk About AdoptionSM, a unique card game for adoptive families. Created by our adoption-competent staff, whose ... |
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| 7. | | 99 Things You Wish You Knew Before ... Choosing Adoption is your comprehensive guide to help you through your adoption journey. If you have ever been interested in adoption-as a prospective adoptive ... |
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| 8. | | Watch as Michael Monroe talks about the need for adoptive dads to partner with their wives to work together as they lead their children toward hope and ... |
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"Every little girl loves a pretty new dress, and my daughter, Anna, was no exception. Trembling with emotion, she ripped open the department store bag that contained her new dress, tights, shoes ... |
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| 10. | A Family for Every Orphan works to enable local Christian families to bring orphans into their homes through foster care and adoption by providing material resources and ongoing support.
In order to support these families, AFFEO partners with organizations that demonstrate the shared-values and that have a track record of successful projects consistent with aiding or supporting foster and adoptive families. Through its donors and volunteers, AFFEO provides financial, material, and administrative support to achieve initiative goals that result in more orphans living in a loving and positive family environment. |
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| 11. | | We use the word adoption very casually today. We speak of adopting pets, books, and highways. Yet the word has a far nobler significance. Adoption is the permanent placement of a child in a family ... |
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This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is ... |
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| 14. | | 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, ... |
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| 15. | | Children from hard places are often impacted in many different ways by their histories. One of the most profound, yet often overlooked, is the way in which these children’s sensory processing ... |
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| 16. | | "Sherman Smith saw the most terrible thing happen. At first he tried to forget about it, but soon something inside him started to bother him. He felt nervous for no reason. Sometimes his stomach ... |
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| 17. | | Ruslan Maliuta gives a vision for a World Without Orphans.
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Written by Dianne Becker, producer of this documentary:
“Orphanages create orphans.”
WHAT?!?
The first several times I heard Steve Saint say that, I couldn’t even begin to ... |
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| 19. | | World Without Orphans is a movement of Christians from around the globe working together towards the vision of a world without orphans. Learn how you can join with believers around the world in this ... |
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| 20. | | “Orphanages create orphans.” “Orphanages create orphans.”
WHAT?!?
The first several times I heard Steve Saint say that, I couldn’t even begin to wrap my brain around it. I didn’t have a clue how an ... |
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