Wednesday, December 2, 2009 at 10:41AM Take a look at this precious little one!
Lifesong for Orphans,
Thanks so much for helping us bring our little girl home. She is so beautiful! We are so grateful for your help and support through our adoption.
-Ryan, Carly, Trenton & Ethan Geagel
Monday, November 9, 2009 at 8:00AM Lifesong for Orphans presents...
National Orphan Sunday Community Wide Gathering
Pontiac Township High School - Pontiac, IL
Our prayer is that this event will raise awareness for orphan care and adoption within the community and allow the Lord to stir in the hearts of believers all over this state.
Lysa TerKeurst from Proverbs 31 Ministries will be sharing her incredible testimony and adoption journey. To learn more about Lysa, click here.
Admission is free of charge, tickets are by reservation only. For tickets contact Christi at 309-747-3558 or by email at christi@lifesongfororphans.org.
*An initiative of the Christian Alliance for Orphans & The Cry of the Orphan Campaign
Tuesday, September 1, 2009 at 11:36AM 
The Church at Battle Creek in the Tulsa, OK area has luanched the Adopt(ed) Church Adoption Fund, as they live out the culture of orphan care & adoption.
Battle Creek has an abundance mentality in the way they've set up their Church Adoption Fund - the funds are available certainly for couples from their congregation who feel the call of adoption, but didn't stop there. They had the wisdom and abundance mentality to use this Fund to come alongside other committed Christian adoptive families in the Tulsa vicinity (regardless of where they went to church).
That's exactly what they've done with the Baker family, providing them with an Adoption Matching Grant, out of the Adopt(ed) Fund @ TCABC...
Larry and Ahna Baker have felt the calling to adopt, Ivan, from Eastern Europe. Their pastor writes “They are devoted to the task of raising their children in a positive and God-honoring way; and they have each shown a willingness to sacrifice personal material comfort in order to provide and care for their family.”
After a six-week Bible study at their church, Larry and Ahna became certain God was giving them “details of His plan and purpose for our lives, and adoption was a major focal point”. Larry says, “I believe that Ahna and I are uniquely crafted to adopt Ivan and be his parents, and that he was uniquely crafted to ultimately be our son, regardless of the geography or earthly circumstances involved.”
Click here to view pictures from a banquet and golf tournatment held to raise money for funding adoptions.
Click here to Start an Adoption Fund @ Your Church!
Friday, August 28, 2009 at 10:00AM 
Family Christian Stores is a leading specialty retailer with nearly 300 locations and over 4,000 employees in 36 states who are being intentional in caring for orphans!
Watch this video for a great glimpse of the awesome things God has done through the James Fund (charitable foundation of Family Christian Stores) and....
- sponsoring Employee Mission Trips (Mexico, Dominican Republic, Guatemala)
- Funding employee & non-employee Adoption Financial Assistance Grants/Loans (through Lifesong)
even greater things are yet to come!
Next time you BUY...BUY from Family Christian Stores (and help orphans) next time you need to buy Bibles, Books, Music, Childrens, Gifts, Apparel, Software, Cards, Church Supplies, DVD's, etc.
How can you use your Company/Corporation intentionally....to care for orphans?
Wednesday, August 19, 2009 at 11:00AM My friend Jason Kovacs at the ABBA Fund had a great post about creating a "culture" of adoption in your church... not just creating a ministry...
Many of these churches are asking how they can serve the fatherless most effectively?
The best advice I can give is to not simply start an orphan care/adoption “ministry” but aim to see an orphan care/adoption culture established. What do I mean by that? It may be semantics but I see a difference that has great implications:Ministry tends be an optional program that a small group of interested individuals can take part in.
Culture is something that the whole church community takes part in by virtue of being part of the church.
Ministry does not necessitate the involvement or the vision casting of the church leadership.
Culture will be sustained by the preaching of the gospel and the particular ways it is worked out.
Ministry is not always clearly connected to the mission of the church.
Culture is a means to work out the mission of the church.
Think of these statements in regards to other “ministries” that we find in our churches – evangelism, prayer, mercy. The extent to which these gospel-activities are seen as “ministries” or “programs”, as they so often are, they often struggle. I find churches that are most effective at evangelism are those churches that see evangelism as a non-negotiable for every member and have created a culture in which every member by virtue of their involvement in the church community is caught up into the activity of reaching the lost. I think the same ought to be true for orphan care/adoption.
The greatest thing you can do to establish a culture of adoption/orphan care in your church is to be gripped by the reality that God has adopted us as His children. The church is God’s great trans-racial adoptive family. As the gospel takes root in our hearts and we recognize that adoption is central to the heart and mission of God it also becomes something we care about. We will naturally begin to reflect our vertical adoption in our horizontal efforts. This is the foundation for creating a culture that believes that every Christian is called to care for the fatherless in some way.Not everyone is called to adopt but everyone is called to do something.
The question for each Christian and each church is not “Should I care for orphans?”
The question is “How can I care for orphans?”
