Category Archives: International Orphan Care

Summit VIII Recordings Now Available!

We’re excited to announce that Summit workshops and plenary sessions are now available.  Both audio downloads and CDs are available for all sessions, and video DVD is also available for plenary sessions.  See and access all of this incredible content HERE today! We’re thankful to Convention Media Solutions for making this all available at a [...]

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The Christian Post on Summit VIII

Summit VIII was nothing short of amazing.  Even for those of us who spent a lot of time scurrying behind the scenes, the passion and wisdom and experiences brought not only by formal presenters, but by virtually every attendee, left us full-to-the-brim.  Many of the workshop and plenary sessions will be available for download online [...]

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Is the Focus of Christian Giving Shifting Overseas?

The Philanthropy Roundtable, a respected Washington think tank focused on philanthropic engagement, recently published a highly significant article asking whether giving by American Christians is shifting increasingly from local priorities to overseas engagement.  Author Karl Zinsmeister (formerly head of the White House Domestic Policy Council) draws upon extensive data and anecdotal evidence to highlight a [...]

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Prayer as Summit Arrives

I received an email this morning from a dear family friend, Lisa, who has moved with her husband and eight children to Kenya for one year.  (I can’t imagine moving with my five little ones to Kentucky right now, let alone to the southern hemisphere.)  They are serving together through Alliance member Agape Children’s Ministry, [...]

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Kay Warren Video on Summit VIII!

Kay Warren today released a great video invitation to Summit VIII.  We’re so very thankful for Kay, Pastor Rick, Elizabeth Styffe, Lynn Young, Carol Cooper and the whole Saddleback team — especially now in the final week as they prepare for the monumental task of serving as host church for Summit VIII!  

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Rick Warren on the Upcoming Summit

Pastor Rick and Kay Warren and the whole team at Saddleback Church have been involved with the Christian Alliance for Orphans since its early days.  They’ve raised a clarion call to the church to take on adoption, foster and orphan care both locally and globally, and they’ve modeled that call with in action.  Describing the [...]

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Encouraging Article on the Alliance, the Movement & Central Valley Roots

The work of the Christian Alliance for Orphans spans the country (and, increasingly, the globe), so Rachel and I have the privilege of choosing where to locate and work.  Three years ago we moved from Washington, DC to the much less metropolitan environs of California’s great Central Valley.   Although we’ve missed our community in DC [...]

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Buckner Devotional “Abba, Father”

Our good friends at Alliance member Buckner International recently published a devotional titled Abba, Father: A 30 day devotional guide celebrating the Hope of Family.   Thirty short readings paired with Scripture passage explore topics ranging from foster care to theology of adoption to the church’s role in orphan care.  Many of the authors are individuals [...]

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Steven Curtis Chapman Video Short on the Orphan Care Movement

If you haven’t seen it yet, don’t miss the latest Alliance video short.  Steven Curtis Chapman shares how the Christian orphan care movement is like music…as only he could do.  (Of course, you won’t want to miss Steven making music of his own at Summit VIII!)   Steven Curtis Chapman from Christian Alliance for Orphans [...]

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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 [...]

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