Calling all Bloggers!

We are so blessed each day as we hear what each of you are doing to advocate for the children in your community and around the world! We know that your lives are busy and want to be able to provide a way for YOU to advocate in the midst of your daily lives.

Those of you that are bloggers, we invite you to become apart of the Lifesong Blogger Network to be able to use your blog to advocate for the fatherless.

How does it work?

It's pretty simple... 

• Email info@lifesongfororphans.org telling us, "I want to be a Lifesong Blogger!"
• We will send you an email periodically highlighting stories on our adoptive families, in-country orphan care initiatves, and other ministires we partner with such as Both Hands Foundation and The Forgotten Initiatve.
• Copy & paste the HTML code that we provide in the email onto your blog to share to your readers the needs, the joys, and the praises of working in the fields of the fatherless.
• And...Ta-da...you are a Lifesong Blogger!

To learn more about being a Lifesong Blogger, see past email updates, or to grab a badge for your blog, please visit our website.

Summit VIII - Justice & Mercy Flow from the Gospel

The Christian Alliance for Orphans’ annual Summit has become the national hub for what Christianity Today recently called, “the burgeoning Christian orphan care movement.”

Summit VIII on May 3-4, 2012 at Saddleback Church in Southern California is expected to draw 1,800 to 2,000 pastors, grassroots advocates, organizational leaders and church ministry heads. Alongside more than eighty workshops, the unforgettable plenary sessions will include Francis Chan, Rick and Kay Warren, Crawford Lorritts, Dennis Rainey, Steven Curtis Chapman, and other global leaders.

Summit inspires, equips and connects for adoption, foster care and global orphan ministry.

Lifesong for Orphans will be there! Will you? ... Register today!

Visit their website to see schedules, speakers, workshops, and new special features!

Together for Adoption

It's exciting to share with you another upcoming Adoption/Orphan Care conference with gospel-saturated general sessions, breakout sessions, and time to network with other churches, organizations, and adoptive families.

Register now & Learn more

2010 National Foster Care Prayer Vigil

The National Foster Care Prayer Vigil is calling followers of Christ together across the country this week (May 16-23) to cry out to God on behalf of children and youth in our nation's foster care system, their families, their workers, and the church as it responds to the needs of those involved in the foster care system.

A prayer vigil can take on many forms. It can be a formal, church-wide event, or it can be an informal gathering with your family after dinner. In fact, the possibilities are endless. 

A prayer vigil can be:

• Part of a regular Bible study group in your home
• Part of a regular Community Group meeting
• Part of a Sunday School class
• A prayer walk through your city
• A gathering of friends at a park, or the beach
• A lunchtime gathering with co-workers
• Whatever and wherever you want it to be

Please join us in committing to pray this week for the children in our country, our state, our county, our neighborhood!

For more information or how to find a group meeting in your area, click here.

Father, thank You for being a personal God...for allowing our prayers to come to Your ear.  Give us the faith to believe that You will hear and answer our prayers for Your children in our communities that will be prayed for today, this week and forever.  Let us pray for Your glory, Your fame, Your name...

The Local Church is Uniquely Equipped!

I must confess I’m blown away by all God has done through Tapestry over the last 5 years. They’ve made a profound difference for local families and the children those families have fostered and adopted." - Jedd Medefind, President of Christian Alliance for Orphans

Check out this post from Tapestry titled 'Three Things We Have Learned & Three Things We Would Do'! A glimpse at the depth of this post -

In the end, the growth that we have seen speaks far more to the needs of children and families in our community (and every community) and the power and reach of the local church, than it does to anything that we ourselves have done. We are humbled that God has used us to play a small part in the lives of so many, and we are excited about what He has in store for us as a ministry and a community.

During any given week, we receive calls from people across the nation wanting to start an adoption, foster care or orphan care ministry in their church. Many of them have very similar questions: How do you get started? What do you do at your small groups and events?  How do you handle this or that?   Three things we have learned in these past five years are that there are no easy answers (although there are some very accessible and available resources), there is no ’one size fits all,’ and there are no shortcuts (at least none worth taking)."

See you at Summit VI!