| 201. | | The Cry of the Orphan partners recently released a free DVD called Answer the Cry: Faces of Hope, which tells the stories of orphans and people like you who have answered God's call ... |
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| 202. | | This booklet is a fact-filled resource for adoptive parents who have a child with trauma and attachment disruption experiences. Fraser provides tips and strategies that can be considered before ... |
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| 203. | | 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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| 204. | | 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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| 205. | | 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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| 206. | | 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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| 207. | | 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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| 208. | | 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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| 209. | | 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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| 210. | | 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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| 211. | | 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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| 212. | | 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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| 213. | | 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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| 214. | | Today, over 130 million children have lost one or both parents, and every 18 seconds, another child in the world becomes an orphan. In America, 107,000 children in the foster care system are ... |
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| 215. | | Fasten Your Sweet Belt is a must read for any adoptive parent. Using personal stories, firsthand accounts from adoptive children and refreshing humor, the author and her 15 year-old adopted daughter ... |
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| 216. | | Adoption Learning Partners' webinars offer helpful support on timely topics and feature the leading experts in the field of adoption. Our experts present the latest research, draw on real life ... |
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| 217. | | One adoption social worker called In On It "the adoption book for everyone else": the grandparents and friends, neighbors and colleagues, aunts and uncles, teachers and caregivers of adoptive ... |
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| 218. | | Parents often become entangled in control battles with their children, leaving everyone frustrated and disconnected. Watch as Amy Monroe encourages parents to avoid control battles by becoming ... |
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| 219. | | Does the Church care for the World's children? The evidence on display tells a troubling story with an ever-increasing number of orphans in the world, kids aging out of foster care, AIDS babies in ... |
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| 220. | | In the adoption community we talk a lot about the need to parent the adopted or foster child differently. Over the 12 years since our first adoption I have honestly gone back and forth over this ... |
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