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This month’s edition of Adoption Today magazine carries an excellent cover article on Orphan Sunday. The introduction to the edition by editor Richard Fischer writes, “Christian churches across the country have taken up, or in many cases, taken back orphan care as a tenet of their faith. Reconnecting with and answering the call to care [...]
Monthly Archives: November 2011
Kelly Rosati’s New Book, WAIT NO MORE
This blog often highlights the tremendous need to speak more openly about the way beauty and pain that so often come together as we love the orphan. A book released last month does just that: Wait No More, by Kelly and John Rosati. Kelly has long given effective leadership to Focus on the Family’s extensive [...]
Where Your Treasure Is: 2011 ECFA Giving Report Give Powerful Evidence of Blooming Orphan Movement
If our hearts abide where our treasure goes, then the heart of American Christianity is increasingly close to the orphan in distress. The Evangelical Coalition for Financial Accountability (ECFA) last week released its 2011 State of Giving Report. The report contained 29 giving categories. Remarkably, three of the four categories receiving the largest giving increases [...]
Incisive Article on Foster Care and Communities of Faith
Many newspapers around the U.S. today are carrying an insightful article from Jennifer Marshall, an incisive social analyst and director of the DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society at the Heritage Foundation. Marshall accurately depicts the deep challenges facing children in foster care. Just as important, she also points accurately to the singular solution: [...]
CBN on Adoption Scams
CBN tomorrow (Tuesday) will be running a story on adoption fraud. It is a sad and exceptional story, but families considering adoption would do well to be aware of the danger—particularly if they are considering an adoption agency that isn’t a member of the Christian Alliance for Orphans (Click Here for a list of our [...]
Reps Michelle Bachman and Karen Bass On Foster Care in US News & World Report
U.S. News and World Report this week carries a thoughtful encouragement to Americans to consider adoption from foster care. It rightly describes, “Though the process of adoption is not always easy, the rewards of adopting a child are innumerable and eternal.” The article begins: A few days from now, thousands across America will unofficially start [...]
30 Snapshots of Orphan Sunday Across America
It’s been amazing to read the stories coming in from Orphan Sunday events across the country. Here are just thirty snapshots of the remarkable and diverse reports we’re receiving. (We easily could have shared many times that number, but wanted to keep it to a somewhat manageable number!) Orphan Sunday Reports from Across America 1. [...]
One Poignant Snapshot
It’s been amazing to read the myriad stories still coming in from Orphan Sunday 2011. Later today, we’ll share thirty brief glimpses of what we’re seeing. But to whet your interest, here’s just one for starters…. As highlighted in In Culture Parent magazine online, Orphan Sunday at Kings Park International Church interwove local and global [...]
Snapshots of Orphan Sunday from Around the Globe
What took place around the globe on Orphan Sunday is at least as thrilling as what happened in the U.S. This year was the first serious attempt at growing Orphan Sunday globally. In the words of Ruslan Maliuta, who led efforts in Ukraine, “God by far exceeded our wildest expectations.” Does that sounds hyperbolic? Not [...]
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