| There is no such thing as a perfect parent -- and that is actually good news, so long as parents are willing to focus on repair when they fail and make mistakes.
Watch as Empowered to Connect's Dr. ... |
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| Audio from Together for Adoption's 2011 conference in Phoenix is now being made available for free download.
Sessions available on audio include:
The Gospel, the Church, and Social Justice ... |
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| Who is your child in Christ?
What is your child’s identity in Christ?
Who has God called your child to be?
What is the call of God on your child’s life?
When God looks at your sons and ... |
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| I realize now that when we first brought our children home I had an undefined but deeply felt and well-meant desire. However, I have also realized that my desire was not exactly what God had in ... |
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| Who is this child?
I heard once that personhood can be defined in three parts: (1) Identity, (2)Acceptance, (3) Approval. This intrigued me, as I have become increasingly convinced that ... |
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| I remember one of the first prayers I prayed when we decided to adopt was about family unity. I felt a strong desire that we be one family, not split by the biological children and the ... |
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| Combining four decades of fieldwork with cutting-edge research, Ron Boehme charts the waves of missions in history and reveals how the fourth wave will be unlike anything the world has ever seen. No ... |
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| 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 ... |
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| So often the wait for our children to come home seems so long, but the Lord never wastes time! Here are some ideas to make the time fruitful by building up your family even before your adoption. You ... |
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| Child Protection Services have been involved with Billy and his mother for some time now. He has been happily settled in a kinship placement with his grandmother and enjoys his pet cat, interacting ... |
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| This booklet is a fact-filled resource for adoptive parents who have a child with trauma and attachment disruption experiences. Fraser provides tips and strategies that can be considered before ... |
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| The Cry of the Orphan partners recently released a free DVD called Answer the Cry: Faces of Hope, which tells the stories of orphans and people like you who have answered God's call ... |
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| Wait No More tells John and Kelly Rosati's candid and motivational true story of how God miraculously brought their family together. It is a story of God's faithfulness to grow a beautiful ... |
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| Listen to this webinar from Christian Alliance for Orphans to learn more about building an orphan care ministry in your church that will last.
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At every stage in the life of an ... |
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| According to many studies, the average church-attending young person is more likely to not stay, than to remain. Before They Say Goodbye is a proactive project to help parents, leaders, and pastors ... |
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| Road-tested with over 400 families, Before You Were Mine equips adoptive parents to celebrate and commemorate their adopted children’s birth stories. Parents will benefit from practical worksheets ... |
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This video tells the story of Karrington, a girl from Oklahoma who spent years in the foster system before finally receiving her forever ... |
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| Learn about Tony and Lauren Dungy's adoption story and their invitation to pastors and ministry leaders to care for ... |
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| How does it happen that two people can be experiencing the same circumstances and conditions on their mission trip, and one person is having a great time, while the other is miserable as can be? And ... |
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| This groundbreaking study by the CDC examines HIV rates among orphans and homeless youth in Ukraine.
Read the abstract and the ... |
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