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If you listen closely to young people today, you’ll hear a hunger for more than the well-padded lives that marketers, technology and even many churches continually try to sell them. They’ll tell you they long to pursue a calling larger than themselves. They want a vision worthy of sacrifice. It’s the absence of such a [...]
Category Archives: Advocacy
Christian Giving Trends
Christianity Today carries a fascinating article on giving trends among evangelicals—a theme previously noted on this blog. Along with other highlights, it describes the way that adoption and orphan care have risen dramatically in recent years as a vibrant expression of Christian giving. It’s further confirmation of the expanding response to God’s call to care [...]
What’s Your Red Bus?
Few things are more enlivening than seeing students wake to God’s heart for the orphan. They recognize more than just another great need; rather, they begin to sense how the God of the universe cares deeply for the world’s most destitute, and calls His people to do the same. In that sense of God’s heart [...]
Congressional Coalition for Adoption Institute Highlights Foster Youth Webinar
We’ve had many tremendous Church Orphan Ministry Webinars over the past two years, but among my very favorite was last month’s. It featured three articulate young adults who grew up in the foster system, speaking on “Little Things That Make a Big Difference for Foster Youth.” The Congressional Coalition for Adoption Institute (CCAI)’s monthly newsletter [...]
What Adoptees Wish Church Communities Knew
Many of the seven million adult adoptees in the US wouldn’t darken the doors of a church. Some do, but struggle with issues they dare not verbalize. What if the church were known as a place where adoptees felt truly understood about their challenges and needs? Best-selling author Sherrie Eldridge (20 Things Adopted Kids Wish [...]
Passport Through Darkness
In college, I studied til 2 AM most nights…but now I don’t think I’ve read past midnight in years. So when a father of four like me stays up reading til 1:30 AM, you’ve got to guess the book was nearly impossible to put down. It was. I had the chance to spend some time [...]
More Than Good Intentions–II
Yesterday’s post highlighted the critical importance of study, preparation, reflection and diligence in seeking to serve orphans. The assumption that good intentions are sufficient often makes for ugly outcomes. True love always seeks to serve wisely and well. As noted, thoughtful Christians have every reason to draw from insightful researchers and effective practitioners of all [...]
More Than Good Intentions
The story of philanthropy—both Christian and nonreligious—is often one of noble intention that accomplishes little. Sometimes, it’s even made matters worse. I remember hearing Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf put words to this dilemma a few years ago at a gathering in Washington, DC. She described billions and billions of western aid dollars spent on her [...]
The Strength of the King
I recently finished the book, The Strength of the King, which I read like a devotional each morning for several weeks. Day after day, it drew me into Scripture, reflection and prayer that centered on God’s great love for the lonely, vulnerable and destitute…and His call to the church to reflect that heart in action. [...]
Correction: Adoptive Families Survey
Correction: Yesterday’s post incorrectly identified USCIS as the originator of the survey for adoptive families. In fact, the survey was created and circulated at the request of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. As stated in the survey description, results received by February 14th will be used by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to inform an [...]
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