Wednesday, August 11, 2010 at 11:38AM Child-like faith? How about child-like urgency! When little Ashlyn heard about our kids in Zambia she wanted to do something to help... "FAST"! Taking her homemade money box to family and friends she raised a total of $7.88 and sent it to our Lifesong School. You've got to love her enthusiasm!
Monday, August 9, 2010 at 11:15PM Our Lifesong director in Liberia, Bishop Emmanuel Jones, has a passion for children that is contagious... probably because he understands from experience what it's like to be hungry and abandoned.
Bishop Emmanuel Jones from Lifesong for Orphans on Vimeo.
Now, after spending years helping orphans and street children through their Master's Home of Champions program, he and his wife, Ramona, have taken their passion a step further and invited three newborn triplets, Faith, Hope, and Joy, into their home!
Imagine what it would be like to foster newborn triplets!
Do you have that picture nice and vivid in your mind?
Now, imagine walking 11 hours to pick them up! Not driving, walking!
That's exactly what Emmanuel did when he discovered their need for a home!
Wow! What an awesome visual of Christ crossing leaps and bounds to rescue us!
Wednesday, August 4, 2010 at 9:07AM This post was featured on Together for Adoption and written by Jedd Medefind, President of Christian Alliance for Orphans -
Last weekend, my brother and I hiked deep into the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Our mission: to re-supply my father and his two close friends who are filling a lifelong dream of hiking the John Muir Trail, 210 miles of breathtaking, rugged wilderness. Their faces glowed as they described the glories of God’s creation they’ve encountered, from Alpine meadows to granite peaks. But my father’s friend Henry, though never losing his smile, also reminded, “There’s been real pain, too.” Severe blisters, cramping legs, shoulder pain, biting hailstorms and cold to the verge of hypothermia were just a partial list. It was clear the three hikers were having the time of their lives, but pain was interwoven with the journey.It is easy to feel it should be otherwise. Something deep inside us still recalls the world before the Fall, and joins creation in groaning at all the things that aren’t the way they should be. But this side of heaven, most anything worth doing comes with pain—care for orphans via adoption, foster care or global ministry as much as any.Of course, keeping our roots in Scripture (from Jesus’ words about “counting the cost” to Hebrews 11:36-38) disabuses us of any fantasy that health and wealth are guaranteed compensation for faithfulness. Yet still there is a temptation to gloss over the difficult thing or just shove them under the carpet. In adoption ministry, for instance, there can be a pull toward making “ministry” mainly a “cheerleading” for Christians to adopt with little emphasis on support after the child has come home. There’s certainly a place for helping people see the beauty and purposefulness discovered in adoption and other forms of orphan care. But ultimately we need to know: there will be pain, too.What’s tremendously heartening is that the movement of Christians committed to orphans is coming to embrace that truth. I increasingly hear church orphan ministry leaders talk about the journey—that long, often beautiful, often difficult road that comes with loving anyone for a lifetime, especially a child coming from a hard place.My prayer is that more and more, church orphan ministry will be a place where this beauty-mixed-with-pain is shown for what it is: an inescapable reality of life in a broken world and a journey worth taking. May it be that in Church, like nowhere else, worn out foster parents, struggling adoptive families and weary orphan care workers can speak transparently about their burden. And where others can help them bear the load in discerning, well-prepared, sacrificial ways. That’s church orphan ministry—and just plain Church—at its very best."
Thursday, July 22, 2010 at 10:00AM I love this prayer calendar which give us focus and direction in praying for our children. Join us in prayer for children all over the world!
Tuesday, July 20, 2010 at 11:59AM 
Make your plans for...
ORPHAN SUNDAY
November 7, 2010
From Christianity Today to Catalyst, God’s call to “defend the cause of the fatherless” is echoing in ways not seen in generations. Orphan Sunday is your opportunity to spread this passion as part of a nationwide movement.
Each Orphan Sunday event is led by local Christians committed to the Gospel and the orphan: from Sunday School classes and sermons to student-led fundraisers and foster family recruiting. Here is just one testimony of the thousands of lives that were touched last year by Orphan Sunday...
“Orphan Sunday at Morningside Baptist in Sioux City, IA not only became a catalyst for us to launch an orphan ministry—including a new adoption and orphan care fund—but also spurred many church members to consider adoption, including a church elder whose family will be adopting in 2010 as a result.” --Jim Reynolds, Church Elder
Hear the personal story of a family changed forever through Orphan Sunday 2009!
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Alongside local events, a national concert featuring The Desperation Band will be simulcast live from Colorado Springs to high school and college groups nationwide on the Friday of Orphan Sunday weekend. The 2010 campaign aims for more than 2,000 events across America the weekend of November 7th. The ultimate goal: to call Christians to make the Gospel visible in adoption, foster care and global orphan ministry. Start planning your Orphan Sunday event today!
