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 ...
I will never forget seeing her pull the measuring tape out of her purse as she talked about the skull of her child.
The woman, standing in an airport in Russia with my wife and me, was, like us, an ...
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 ...
"There must be more to the Christian life than this--more than church each Sunday and waving to my neighbors and giving some clothes to Goodwill when I go through my closet each spring."
These ...
This article by Dr. Russell Moore addresses what some view as the dichotemy between focusing on justice and social issues or focusing on evangelism:
Some evangelicals talk as though personal ...
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. ...
LIVE in the STORY is a half-day or full-day, church-based event that is designed to take Christians deeper into God’s story of adoption. God’s work of adoption is a story that encompasses all ...
Why would someone risk his safety, destroy his schedule, and become dirty and bloody to help a needy person of another race and social class? And why would Jesus tell us "Go and do likewise"? Like ...
The More4Orphans Summit 2012 brought focus to the orphan crisis in our world today and explored ways we can all help the most vulnerable among us. The Summit featured three tracts: Global Orphan ...
"No, your eyes were not playing tricks on you when you read the title of this post. Orphan care is not what I do. It is what Jesus does. Here is what I mean (are you ready for a quick ...
Scripture has much to say about about orphans. Here's a list of verses that mention the fatherless and orphan.
Exodus 22:22-24
Do not take advantage of a widow or an orphan. If you ...
From Jedd Medefind of CAFO: "My friend Doug Sauder, President of CAFO member 4KIDS of South Florida, recently shared with me a profound letter. It was written by a woman who served families ...
Listen to the audio from the Pure Religion Conference in Cary, NC. Speakers were Dan Cruver, Stephen Davey, Sean Cordell, and Tony Merida.
Listen to the audio ...
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 ...
The 4/14 Window refers to the demographic group from age four to fourteen years old, which is the most open and receptive to every form of spiritual and developmental input. Check out these ...
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One of the ambitious dreams that Reclaiming Adoption and its authors share with the Apostle ...
In many Bibles, Christ's words are set apart with a red font. It should be obvious, but this distinction helps remind us that when God becomes Man and that Man speaks it's probably something we ...
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 ...
