Upcoming Conferences...

The Global Leadership Summit

Willow Creek Community Church

South Barrington, IL and 170+ locations across North America!

August 11-12

This conference which aims to transform Christian leaders around the world with an injection of vision, skill development, and inspiration for the sake of the local church.  It will be broadcast from Willow Creek Community Church to more than 170 locations and has over 100,000 people attending.  This is one you won't want to miss!  

Find out more HERE!

Empowered to Connect 

Brentwood Baptist Church

Nashville, TN

September 23-24

If you haven't heard us talk about the ETC conferences before click HERE.  These conferences provide a great resource for anyone involved in adoption, foster or orphan care!

Find out more HERE!

New Empowered to Connect Resource

Check out this new DVD!

Trust-Based Parenting: Creating Lasting Changes

in Your Child's Behavior

This DVD released from TCU’s Institute of Child Development, is currently available at a substantial discount for a limited time.  It offers in-depth training for parents of children with trauma-based behavioral issues. The Trust-Based Relational Intervention® (TBRI) is a unique intervention model created by developmental psychologists Dr. Karyn Purvis and Dr. David Cross, founders of the Institute of Child Development.  This new DVD is a must-have for adoptive and foster parents, as well as ministry leaders and professionals.

This is a truly phenomenal resource that parents and churches should all know about."

Michael Monroe Tapestry Ministry & Empowered to Connect

Find out more at empoweredtoconnect.org

Need Options? We've Got 2.

For you conference lovers out there, we have some upcoming conferences in the next few months.

in Illinois (that central state we Lifesongers call home):

Connecting Hearts

with the Forgotten

Conference

hosted by Bloomington-Normal area churches

February 19th

at East White Oak Church in Carlock

For more information click here.

and in Colorado:

Empowered to Connect

Conference

sponsored by Show Hope

April 8-9th

at Bear Valley Church in Denver

For more info on this event click here or to read comments from the last ETC conference click here.

ETC Success

I attended EmpoweredToConnect and it was -- amazing!  This is a content-rich conference, with valuable insights on parenting children from hard places. There are real challenges in parenting -- and ETC provides REAL solutions, with real HOPE!  The messages are shared with the love, care & compassion of your grandma, and at the same time...deep, meaningful counsel and guidance.

This is a must-attend for every adoptive or foster parent.

-Andy Lehman

 The Empowered to Connect conference, sponsored by Show Hope, was held at Covenant Presbyterian Church in Nashville, TN on September 10-11 and was an all around success.  Not only did the 400+ attendees, from 20 different states, receive powerful training and advice, but more than 150 child welfare professionals or adoptive families received Continuing Education Credits or Adoptive and Foster Parent Training Certificates for their participation in the event!  Very cool.

Big thanks to Show Hope, Dr. Karyn Purvis, and Michael & Amy Monroe for the huge amount of work that went into this event.

Empowered to Connect

Virtually every facet of the Christian orphan movement—from foster care and adoption ministries to overseas orphan care—is growing more robust by the day. In both discussion and ministry-emphasis, however, one vital element can often be overlooked: the resources, training and support needed by families whose children via adoption, foster care or otherwise have special emotion, psychological or relational challenges to overcome.

Our friends from Tapestry, Michael and Amy Monroe, and Dr. Karyn Purvis have teamed up to engage this need with a significant new website, Empowered to Connect. It promises to be a great resource for sharing wisdom and skills among families, ministries and others committed to helping parents connect fully with their children, even in the face of real difficulties. The site already contains a solid and growing online library of articles, audio and video presentations. It will play an important role in helping to build out an aspect of the orphan movement that has often been underdeveloped. More importantly, it will help many families overcome real barriers to grow deep connectedness between parent and child.