Upcoming Events

This Webinar will examine information and models useful to Christian leaders, churches and para-church organizations as they work to create healthy life transition for aging-out orphans.

ROOF is now recruiting volunteers for the Belskoye-Ustye 2013 Summer Camp! We are now looking for volunteers interested in spending a few weeks in the Pskov Region of Western Russia working with the children of Belskoye-Ustye Psycho-Neurological Orphanage during the month of July 2013.

Want to impact the life of an orphan or economically depressed child? Are you a believer that Jesus wants ALL people to be saved and come to the knowledge of His saving blood? We have 125 children at the local orphanage waiting for YOU! We hope that you will consider traveling to Ukraine to minister to these and the hundreds of children His Kids Too! serves throughout the Donetsk region.

Join us for a webinar featuring Pat Irwin Johnston, author and adoptive parent, as she discusses: Common questions kids start asking and when
How and when to share the tough stuff
Answering questions with limited information

Core Module 1: Trauma and Crisis Care presents foundational issues and principles that provide an understanding of children’s traumatic experiences and the resulting impact of trauma. Additionally, it addresses planning and implementation of biblical interventions in order to bring healing and hope to hurting children.

Our conferences provide 30+ sessions on race and identity, family relationships, parenting tools, search and reunion, etc. Presenters include authors, educators, activists, therapists, and grassroots leaders. Each block includes an adoptee-only session as well as many choices open to all. Cultural and social activities are offered as well as vendors, exhibits, and film screenings.

Train the Trainer is designed to equip individuals who have taken Module 1: Trauma and Crisis Care and desire to teach the CCTI curriculum modules to caregivers and communities to bring healing and hope to children and families in crisis.

Safe Families for Children is becoming a vital movement in this country! Please plan to join us in exploring and learning ways you can Show Love and Share Space. Join the Safe Families for Children community and learn practical steps you can take to deepen the breadth of Safe Families for Children in your area as an individual, family, leader, or organization.

The Konotop Trip has been such a special trip for us here at Mercy Projects. For the past few years MP UK has been sending teams to work with special needs children at the “Hearts of Love” center in Konotop, Ukraine. We have seen drastic changes in the children as well as the quality of the center’s building as Mercy Projects teams and supports worldwide have given time and finances to invest in these often overlooked children. Join the team whether you are from the U.S. or the UK and help put on an awesome program for these kids. No visas needed.

Join Focus on the Family, Florida Child Welfare, along with agency and ministry leaders from around Florida on August 24, 2013 from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm at First Baptist Church Orlando. You'll hear more about the kids who are waiting, the process of adoption from foster care and ways to support adoptive families. In addition, agency and county representatives will be on site to answer questions and help you get started.

Retreat for adoptive and fostering moms

Join Heart for Orphans for the Spring or Summer 2013 Vision Trip to Ukraine! We will be traveling to several of the Heart for Orphans homes and visiting orphanages. Estimated cost $2,250 per trip.

Empowered To Connect, together with Show Hope, hosts the Empowered To Connect Conference — a two-day conference designed to help adoptive and foster parents, ministry leaders and professionals better understand how to connect with “children from hard places” in order to help them heal and become all that God desires for them to be.

Hope at Home – 2013 will be a time of refreshing as we encounter the Father’s heart towards adoptive families. It is going beyond a traditional conference to equip and restore parents
as they face the exciting and often challenging role of partnering with God to transform orphans into Sons and Daughters.

The theme for the upcoming Together for Adoption National Conference is “The Story that Changes Everything—for Us and the Fatherless.” Mark your calendars and stay tuned for more info about this great event that will be held in Louisville, KY in 2013!

The theme of the upcoming 2013 National Association of Christians in Social Work (NACSW0 conference, “Social Justice: Contributions of Faith and Spirituality,” reflects the Biblical challenge for Christians to “act justly” and to care for “the least of these” among us. This conference will help Christians who are social workers examine ways of responding to this challenge in both their professional and personal lives.