Children's Peace Exhibit | Type: Training | | Related Organization: International Christian Adoptions |
Leaving The American Sector
Leaving The American Sector by Mercy Projects Director Jeff Thompson is an exciting and inspirational story in the vein of "God's Smuggler" by Brother Andrew. For 12 years Jeff made secret missions behind the Iron Curtain. In the process he was caught by the East Geman Secret Police (the Stasi) and a covert plan was developed by the Stasi to apprehend him.
This is a story that will...
| Type: Book | | Related Organization: Mercy Projects |
Ukrainian Foster Family Shares Their Story EEO’s UK Director, Peter Wooding, was recently highlighted on the Christian Broadcasting Network. His video and interview with an EEO sponsored Foster Family (Gedz Family) gives you an unique look into the lives of Ukrainian couples who are making a difference by taking in orphaned and at-risk children with the help of faithful sponsors from all over the world.
Click here to read the...
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: Mercy Projects |
Hands That Heal: International Curriculum to Train Caregivers of Trafficking Sex trafficking is modern-day slavery in which people are exploited and sold in the commercial sex industry. Holistic care is necessary for traumatized survivors to find healing from their abuse and to learn the skills needed to succeed in beginning a new life.
The FAAST curriculum, Hands that Heal, is a comprehensive, Christian curriculum to train global caregivers who are frontline providers of...
Adopted for Life: The Priority of Adoption for Christian Families and Churches One of the best and most encouraging books written about adoption is "Adopted for Life” by Russell D. Moore. This book is a manifesto calling Christians to adopt children and to equip Christian families going through the process. It offers biblical foundations for adoption and identifies adoption as a Great Commission priority.
For the month of February, download the audio book for...
New Report on Benefits of Adoption "The Family Research Council recently released a new report exploring outcomes and benefits of adoption. Most of the findings will not come as a major surprise to adoptive families. And, some of the chosen wording and emphasis found in the report may spur a bit of legitimate debate among advocates. But ultimately, this thoughtful paper provide further evidence that...
Orphanology The book Orphanology is a practical response to God’s command to care for the fatherless told through the stories of families and ministries who are responding.
For more information or to order your copy click here: http://www.orphanologybook.com/
Depraved Indifference This video from Ellerslie Mission Society offers a fresh new perspective into God's heart for the orphan, and His call on believers to care for the orphan:
http://www.ellerslie.com/Home.html
The Financial Challenge of Adoption and How the Church can Respond If you missed the Christian Alliance for Orphan's webinar on financial challenges in adoption and how the church can respond, then you can go back and listen to it here:
The Financial Challenge of Adoption and How the Church Can Respond from Christian Alliance for Orphans on Vimeo.
| Type: Websource | | Related Organization: Christian Alliance for Orphans |
Encountering the World of Islam Students in the Encountering the World (EWI) of Islam course learn experiences from around the Muslim world. The course has moved students around the US and beyond from an awareness of Muslims to sharing in God's compassion for them.
EWI is a twelve-lesson course which combines typical learning assignments with experiential activities and on-line interactions for an integrated...
Wrestling with an Angel This book tells the story of a father and his struggle dealing with his son's disabilities. For more information or to order the book visit:
http://www.cruciformpress.com/our-books/wrestling-with-an-angel/
Ukraine without Orphans Conference Update The Alliance for Ukraine witout Orphans held its first national conference in November 2010 and over 500 individuals (primarily Ukrainians) attended. For a conference summary and photos from one of our partners, go to:
http://dandjschooler.blogspot.com/2010/11/hope-for-orphans-ukraine-without.html
Helping Teens to Serve Orphans Are you a teen looking for ways to serve orphans?
Do you know a teen who'd like ideas on how to serve orphans?
If you fit either of these categories, then here are some great ideas that you could use to enable to teens around you to make a real difference in the lives of orphans: http://www.joshcousineau.com/orphan-sunday-and-teens/
Orphan Sunday Video This video was created by and for a local church in Huntsville, AL as a way to advertise Orphan Sunday. It'd be great to use in other churches:
Orphan Sunday 2010 from Matthew Wilson on Vimeo.
Reclaiming Adoption The book Reclaiming Adoption: Missional Living Through the Rediscovery of Abba Father, will be available January 1 for either a print version or an e-version. The book is edited by Dan Cruver, with contributions from John Piper, Rick Phillips, Scotty Smith, and Jason Kovacs.
For more information or to order your copy, click here:
http://www.cruciformpress.com/our-books/reclaiming-adoption/
2011 Internship in Russia An Orphan Outreach internship is about learning that the world is bigger than your backyard, breaking out of comfort zones...and seeing what the Gospel can do firsthand. Orphan Outreach interns are "[in Russia] for almost a month, so the exposure they have to this different country and culture and Christians in that country is also just an opportunity in any other type of ‘typical'...
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Compassion for the Fatherless This article by Christian Alliance for Orphan's Jedd Medefind discuses the truths about God's heart for the orphan that are found in the book of Hosea:
http://www.christianallianceblog.org/?p=932
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: Christian Alliance for Orphans |
Unveiling the Heart of the Abandoned Child In this Focus on the Family radio broadcast, Rob Mitchell, author of Castaway Kid, discusses the childhood struggles he experienced as an orphan:
Part one: http://listen.family.org/daily/A000003016.cfm
Part two: http://listen.family.org/daily/A000003017.cfm
Guidelines for Beginning a Street Children Ministry Recently Jeff Anderson, ACTION street children missionary in the Philippines, gave some guideline suggestions to a ministry in the Ukraine regarding beginning a ministry to street children. We thought these seven points might be applicable to share with others in ministry to street and underprivileged children...
Statistics about Women and Children
Statistics About Women and Children
Here is a link to startling statistics about the terrible situations that women and children face worldwide. These are arraigned by topic for your information, prayer concern and possible action for the Gospel and compassionate concern.
The Good News of Adoptive Sonship This article by Together for Adoption's Dan Cruver discusses God's adoption of the nation of Israel in the Old Testament, and examines the relevance that has for our lives and ministries today:
http://www.togetherforadoption.org/?p=9027
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: Together for Adoption |
Who's Your Daddy? This curriculum by JP Sibley will help equip and mobilize high school students to care for orphans. The multiple lessons would be great to use at a student retreat.
http://www.togetherforadoption.org/?p=9030&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+TogetherForAdoption+(Together+for+Adoption)
Lausanne Congress Update The Lausanne Congress took place in South Africa in October, 2010 and hosted over 4000 Christian leaders from around the globe. For a summary of some important lessons from the congress, click here:
http://chrisitianallianceblog.org/?p=900
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: Christian Alliance for Orphans |
One Hand, Two Hands This children's book by Max Lucado teaches children about the importance of helping others. For more information or to order, click below:
Justice and Evangelism This article by Dr. Russell Moore addresses what some view as the dichotemy between focusing on justice and social issues or focusing on evangelism:
http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/tgc/2010/10/20/asks-moore-justice-evangelism/
Outlive Your Life: You Were Made to Make A Difference These are difficult days in our world's history. 1.75 billion people are desperately poor, natural disasters are gouging entire nations, and economic uncertainty still reigns across the globe. But you and I have been given an opportunity to make a big difference. What if we did? What if we rocked the world with hope? Infiltrated all corners with God's love and life? We are created by a great God...
We Love Because Are you looking for a short video clip to share in your church that conveys the Biblical basis for orphan care? Then this might be just what you're looking for:
We Love Because from Christian Alliance for Orphans on Vimeo.
Ain't No Mountain High Enough This great article by Lisa Qualls shares the difficulties of adoption, as well as God's power to meet us in the middle of those difficulties: http://empoweredtoconnect.org/aint-no-mountain-high-enough/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+EmpoweredToConnect+(Empowered+To+Connect)
Answer the Cry To help raise awareness and spur action on behalf of the millions of orphans waiting around the world and in the U.S., Focus on the Family, Hope for Orphans (a ministry of FamilyLife), and Show Hope have created a free 60-minute video program called Answer the Cry.
Hosted by best-selling author and former pastor Francis Chan and featuring GRAMMY-winning recording artists Steven Curtis Chapman...
Why Love Orphans? Looking for something to show in your church or Bible study to advertise Orphan Sunday? This short video clip might be just the thing:
Why Love Orphans? from Christian Alliance for Orphans on Vimeo.
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Creation Groans This video on orphan care would be great to show in a church service or Bible study:
Creation Groans from Christian Alliance for Orphans on Vimeo.
| Type: Video/DVD | | Related Organization: Christian Alliance for Orphans |
Adoptions in Ethiopia Rise, Bucking Global Trend In the past six years, Ethiopia has become one of the main countries open to international adoptions by Americans. As international adoptions have decreased around the globe, they have been on the rise in Ethiopia: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101012/ap_on_re_us/us_ethiopia_s_orphans
Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia Figes describes the twists and turns of Russian history through cultural and artistic events from the founding of Rus in the 12th century through the Soviet era. This book is a great resource for anyone trying to understand the roots of Russian culture as it is today.
For more information or to order, click here:
From Nyet to Da, 4th Edition: Understanding the New Russia Like earlier editions, the new "From Nyet to Da" illuminates the dynamics of traditional Russian culture in the framework of contemporary events. With a new preface, a completely rewritten 'Whither Russia' chapter and updates and revisions throughout, "From Nyet to Da" enlightens readers about virtually every aspect of Russian life, covering social and interpersonal skills as...
China - Culture Smart!: the essential guide to customs & culture For families in the process of adopting internationally, it's very important to understand the culture your child is coming from. Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different countries, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell you what to expect, how...
Ukraine - Culture Smart!: the essential guide to customs & culture For families in the process of adopting internationally, it's very important to understand the culture your child is coming from. Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different countries, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell you what to expect, how...
Russia - Culture Smart!: the essential guide to customs & culture For families in the process of adopting internationally, it's very important to understand the culture your child is coming from. Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different countries, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell you what to expect, how...
Ethiopia - Culture Smart!: The essential guide to customs & culture Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different countries, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a rapport with your hosts. This inside knowledge will enable you to steer clear of embarrassing gaffes...
Long-Term Volunteer Opportunities Buckner International is now offering opportunities for long-term volunteering in locations around the world. Buckner will help arange and organize the trip, which can last anywhere from one month to one year. Volunteers are responsible for raising their own funds.
For more information or to apply, click here:...
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Adopted for a Purpose: Bible Stories of Joseph, Moses, Samuel, and Esther Presents the Bible stories of Joseph, Moses, Samuel, and Esther, all of whom were taken from their natural parents and raised by someone else.
For God So Loved Looking for something to show in your church or Bible study to advertise Orphan Sunday? This short video clip might be just the thing.
For God So Loved - OS from Christian Alliance for Orphans on Vimeo.
| Type: Video/DVD | | Related Organization: Christian Alliance for Orphans |
Partnering with the Local Church to Care for Orphans in Haiti This webinar will give practical advice, principles and practices for how your church can wisely partner with indigenous churches to care for orphans in Haiti and beyond.
Host Church: Northridge Church
Presenters: Michael Miller, Northridge Church,...
| Type: Audio | | Related Organization: Christian Alliance for Orphans |
The Jesus Storybook Bible “I would urge not just families with young children to get this book, but every Christian--from pew warmers, to ministry leaders, seminarians and even theologians! Sally Lloyd-Jones has captured the heart of what it means to find Christ in all the scriptures, and has made clear even to little children that all God’s revelation has been about Jesus from the beginning--a truth not all...
Isaiah's Story This moving video tells one baby's story from the streets into a loving family:
Isaiah's Story from 31Films on Vimeo.
True Religion This powerful video clip shows global orphan and poverty statistics, and would be great to show in church or at a Bible study:
True Religion from Christian Alliance for Orphans on Vimeo.
Answer the Cry "Answer the Cry" is a special video program you can use to build an impacting Orphan Sunday event in your church, home or community. This 60-minute program highlights ways every Christian can make a lasting difference for an orphan. Answer the Cry is hosted by bestselling author Francis Chan and features music performances by award-winning artists Steven Curtis Chapman and Mark...
Adoption Season for Evangelicals This article from the Wall Street Journal discusses the recent rise of an orphan care (and adoption and foster care) movement among Evangelical Christians in the US:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703743504575494263102089970.html
In Touch Messenger In Touch Ministries is offering a solar-powered, handheld audio device that comes with 35 sermons by Dr. Charles Stanley. The In Touch Messengers are being produced and distributed in English, Spanish, French, Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, Russian, Hindi and Bahasa Indonesian. They are completely free of charge, and shipping costs will be covered by In Touch. For more information...
Adoption Tax Credit Information To encourage and support adoption, the adoption tax credit was expanded by President Bush and Congress in 2001. This increased the value of the credit from $5,000 to $10,000, and indexed it for inflation (meaning the credit would increase each year to keep up with inflation.) For 2010, its value had risen to $12,170. However, the 2001 increase was scheduled to...
Summit VI CDs and MP3s Audio files and CDs are now available to order from the Christian Alliance for Orphan's Summit VI. If you missed this event, you'll definitely want to take advantage of this chance to hear the great speakers that were there!
http://www.conventionmedia.net/forchalforor1.html
| Type: Audio | | Related Organization: Christian Alliance for Orphans |
Operation World: The Definitive Prayer Guide to Every Nation "Operation World is the definitive global prayer guide that will help focus your heart and life towards God's passion for his glory among all nations. This all new 7th edition has been completely updated and revised. Whether you are an intercessor praying behind the scenes for world change, a missionary reaping the benefits of intercession, or simply curious about the world, Operation World...
Orphan Care: A Lifeline for Over 80% of Orphaned Children This article shares a couple of practical ways (other than adoption) that believers can care for orphans:
http://www.aaronklein.com/2010/09/orphan-care-a-lifeline-for-over-80-of-orphaned-children/
The U.S. Sex Trade Flourishes: How Adolescent Girls Become Slaves As many as 300,000 minors are being trafficked for sex in the United States each year, but what brings them to this ultimate fate? More than that, what keeps them from getting out? This article addresses both of these important questions:
http://mnnonline.org/article/14722
Small Churches and Adoption According to this article small churches often assume that due to limited resources, they have little to offer when it comes to tasks that seem as daunting as orphan care. But as Dan Cruver of Together for Adoption explains, this is an area in which all churches, regardless of size, can engage missionally:
http://www.edstetzer.com/2010/08/thursday-is-for-thinkers-dan-c.html
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: Together for Adoption |
God Found Us You Another collaboration by the team behind God Gave Us You (2000), this book will resonate with many adopted children as well as their adoptive parents. The story is presented as a cherished and much-repeated bit of bedtime conversation between Mama Fox and Little Fox. Asked about “the day I came home,” Mama talks about how long she dreamed about and waited for Little Fox. Little Fox...
Tension, Mercy and Orphans In this article, Christian Alliance for Orphan's Jedd Medefind tackles head-on the deeply mistaken perception that churches must choose between orphan ministry and rock-solid commitment to discipleship and the Gospel:
ttp://chrisitianallianceblog.org/?p=859
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: Christian Alliance for Orphans |
Is the Orphan My Neighbor? This article by Dr. Russell Moore discusses the call on believers to care for orphans: http://www.qideas.org/blog/is-the-orphan-my-neighbor.aspx
30,000 Orphans Sent Back to Russian Orphanages This article, by Christian Alliance for Orphan's Jedd Medefind, discusses the disturbing news of 30,000 orphans returned to orphanages by Russian adoptive and foster parents.
http://chrisitianallianceblog.org/?p=848
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: Christian Alliance for Orphans |
US Foster Care Statistics The New York Times recently reported on a study following the fate of foster children in the US who have aged out of the foster system. The findings are quite sobering: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/07/us/07foster.html
For additional info on foster care statistics from Saddleback Church, click here:...
Hope is Fading- Orphan Sunday Video This powerful three minute video promo for Orphan Sunday shares the story of a young girl waiting in an orphanage, hoping someone will come and choose her.Hope is Fading – Orphan Sunday from Allan Rosenow on Vimeo.
Global Child Labor Statistics
Get the facts about child labor and how it affects impoverished children and their families.
One in six children 5 to 14 years old — about 16 percent of all children in this age group — is involved in child labor in developing countries.
In the least developed countries, 30 percent of all children are engaged in child labor.
...
Global Religious Statistics
For more information, click here: http://www.compassion.com/child-advocacy/find-your-voice/quick-facts/religion-quick-facts.htm
Get the facts about the various religions around the world.
Religion around the world is broken down like this:
33 percent of the people in the world are Christians.
21 percent of the people in the world are Muslims.
13 percent of the people...
Global Environmental Statistics
Get the facts on the environment in developing countries and how it affects children and their families.
More than 3 million children under age 5 die each year from diseases because of environment-related causes and conditions.
Each year, acute respiratory infections kill approximately 2 million children under age 5. Worldwide, 60 percent of acute...
Global Hunger Statistics Get the facts about hunger and how it affects children and their families.
One person in seven battles hunger every day.
Approximately 963 million people across the world are hungry.
More than 9 million children under age 5 die every year, and malnutrition accounts for more than one-third of these deaths. Most of these children live in sub-Saharan Africa and...
Global Water Statistics Get the facts about safe water and adequate sanitation and how it affects children and their families.
Depending on living conditions, including climate and physical activity, drinking-water needs for individuals vary, but the optimal amount is estimated at 2 quartsper day for a 130-pound person and 1 quart per day for a 22-pound child.
Roughly 12 percent of the world's population, or...
Global Health Statistics Get the facts about the health challenges that impoverished children and their families are facing.
• Malaria kills approximately 1 million children per year, many of them under age 5 and most of them in sub-Saharan Africa.
• In developing countries, one in every six infants is not immunized against tuberculosis.
• While the number of deaths due to measles fell dramatically...
The Heroin Epidemic Advancing on Russia Since the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001, opium production in Afghanistan has risen dramatically. Russia's geographic proximity to the region has made it a huge consumer- sending thousands of Russians to an early grave every year:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/8600847.stm
Parenting the Hurt Child The world is full of hurt children, and bringing one into your home can quickly derail the easy family life you once knew. Get effective suggestions, wisdom, and advice to parent the hurt child in your life. The best hope for tragedy prevention is knowledge! Updated and revised.
Click below to learn more or to purchase:
Global Orphan Statistics Have you ever looked for a breakdown of global orphan numbers by country or region and been unable to find it? Well here is a great chart from UNICEF that gives orphan numbers for many of the countries in the world, as well as for each major region of the world:
http://www.childinfo.org/hiv_aids_orphanestimates.php
Global Poverty Statistics Learn the facts about poverty and how it affects children in need and their families.
Children under age 18 make up nearly 48 percent of the population of the world's least developed countries, compared with21 percent of the population of the world's industrialized nations.
More than 1.6 billion people lack access to electricity and modern forms of...
Global Education Statistics • An estimated 130 million of the world's 15- to 24- year-olds cannot read or write.
• There are 781 million illiterate adults worldwide, and 64 percent of them are women.
• Nearly 115 million children are out of school. Globally, some 53 percent of the children out of primary school are girls, meaning that for every 100 boys out of school, 115 girls are in the same...
Insights & Gifts Video Series This new 16 video series by Dr. Karyn Purvis (developed in partnership with the TCU Institute of Child Development) offers seven insights and seven gifts that are highly relevant for those who are parenting or considering adopting or fostering children from hard places.
To watch the videos, click here:...
| Type: Video/DVD | | Related Organization: Empowered to Connect |
Accredited U.S. Adoption Agencies This is a list of the US adoption agencies that have accreditation to do adoptions in Russia as of July, 2010:
ABC Adoption Services, Inc.
Adopt-A-Child, Inc.
Adoption Associates, Inc.
Adoption Center of Washington
Adoption Options
Adoptions Together, Inc.
Alaska International Adoption Agency
Alliance for Children
Americans for International Aid and Adoption
Beacon House Adoption...
Sharing Power With Your Child In this brief video, Dr. Karyn Purvis explains the benefits of parents sharing appropriate amounts of power with their children through choice giving, compromises and other means. By sharing power appropriately with their children, parents can teach them to communicate effectively about their needs and fears, rather than resorting to behaviors, and can help them develop a strong foundation that...
| Type: Video/DVD | | Related Organization: Empowered to Connect |
Twenty Ways to Become an Adoption-Friendly Church While Christians commonly praise adoption, most American churches do not have a single family that adopted a child during the past year. Churches can and should play a crucial role in encouraging members to "look after orphans in their distress" (James 1:27). Here are some specific ideas on how to become an adoption-friendly church:
http://www.worldmag.com/articles/16304
Sex Trafficking More Common for Michigan Teens Than Car Fatalities This article shares the sobering increase in sex trafficking of teens in Michigan:
http://humantrafficking.change.org/blog/view/sex_trafficking_more_common_for_michigan_teens_than_car_fatalities
The Slave Across the Street While more and more people each day become aware of the dangerous world of human trafficking, most people in the U.S. still believe this is something that happens to foreign women, men and children--not something that happens to their own.
In this powerful true story, Theresa Flores shares how her life as an All-American, blue-eyed, blond-haired 15-year-old teenager who could have been your...
Too Small to Ignore: Why Children are the Next Big Thing (Audio) As president and CEO of Compassion International, a Christian child sponsorship agency, Dr. Wess Stafford is naturally passionate about children. But in his book TOO SMALL TO IGNORE: Why Children Are the Next Big Thing, Stafford goes beyond heartfelt excitement to build a compelling case as to why investing heavily in children will not only transform the face of Christianity but also our world. --...
African Child Sponsorship Sponsor an indigent or orphaned child in Liberia, West Africa for $40 a month. Your sponsorship will provide a child with food, an education, a place to live, and opportunities to hear the gospel. Christian Adoption Services maintains this sponsorship program as part of its orphan care initiative in Liberia. Go to AfricanChildSponsorship.com today!
| Type: Websource | | Related Organization: Christian Adoption Services |
Liberian Adoption: Preparing for Your Child's Homecoming Liberian Adoption: Preparing for Your Child's Homecoming is a must have resource guide for any family adopting a child from Liberia. It's one thing to make it through the process of adopting internationally; it's an entirely different thing to be properly prepared for a child's homecoming. In this book, written by Liberia Adoption Coordinator Angel Rutledge, adoptive families learn about the...
| Type: Book | | Related Organization: Christian Adoption Services |
Liberia Adoption Blog The blog is an excellent resource for any adoptive family. Full of adoption resources and information from an adoption coordinator's perspective.
| Type: Blog | | Related Organization: Christian Adoption Services |
Walking Humbly This article by adoptive mother Lisa Qualls offers helpdul advice for other adoptive families:
http://empoweredtoconnect.org/walking-humbly/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+EmpoweredToConnect+(Empowered+To+Connect)
It’s a Meaningful Life The newest VeggieTales movie is featuring a song by Steven Curtis Chapman and focusing on the theme of loving orphans. It's a Christmas DVD and will be released Oct 5, 2010. Make sure to get your copy!
Where Do We Go From Here? Bible Study Guide This Bible study guide is for couples who are considering adoption. It offers step by step instructions for Bible study leaders:
http://www.orphansunday.org/images/stories/files/resources/WhereDoWeGoFromHere2.pdf
The Heart of God Bible Study Guide This great guide gives you exactly what you need to lead a Bible study on God's heart for the orphan and for adoption:
http://www.orphansunday.org/images/stories/files/resources/HeartofGod2.pdf
Bible Study Guide on Fasting and Prayer for the Orphan This guide will provide you with all the tools you need to do a four week Bible study on fasting and prayer for the orphan:
http://www.orphansunday.org/images/stories/files/resources/Four%20Week%20iFast%20Series.pdf
God's Heart for the Orphan Bible Study This Bible Study by Rick and Kay Warren can be used in your small group to teach members about God's heart for the orphan and to open their eyes to ways they can get involved in serving the fatherless.
http://www.pearpod.com/oc/downloads/GodsHeartOrphan.pdf
| Type: Curriculum | | Related Organization: Saddleback Church |
Orphan Sunday Youth Group Activity This resource offers some great ideas for an Orphan Sunday Youth Group service to help raise awareness among youth about the plight of orphans around the world:
http://www.orphansunday.org/images/stories/files/resources/Youth%20Group%20Event%20for%20ORPHAN%20SUNDAY.pdf
Orphan Sunday Sermon Outlines This resource offers sermon outlines for three sermons that can be preached in your church in conjuction with Orphan Sunday:
http://www.orphansunday.org/images/stories/files/resources/3-PartOrphanSermonSeries.pdf
Orphan Sunday Posters and Flyers Are you interested in hosting an event for this year's Orphan Sunday? Do you need great flyers and posters to promote it? Then look no further! Click the link below for some free posters and flyers that you can print and use to promote Orphan Sunday in your church:
http://www.orphansunday.org/resources
International adoption: From a broken bond to an instant bond Mike Gerson, former chief speechwriter to President Bush, has a tremendous column on international adoption in the Washington Post. Mike has a reputation even among critics as not just a master communicator, but also both an incisive analyst of international issues and a devout Christian. During work-related travel in Zambia, we visited homes of AIDS victims together, and I saw...
Vice President of Residential Services The Presbyterian Home for Children in Amarillo, TX is looking for a Vice President of Residential Services.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: The Vice President of Residential Services, under the general administrative direction of the President, is charged with directing the programmatic operation of the Presbyterian Home for Children and overseeing services to children with the utmost of...
Houseparent Job Openings Do you have a heart for serving at-risk youth? Are you looking for an opportunity to serve full-time?
There are numerous live-in facilities for at-risk youth across the US looking for committed individuals and couples to serve as houseparents. Click the link below to see the different options:
http://www.houseparent.net/Direct3.htm
Regional Director Position for World Orphan World Orphans has a job opening for a Regional Director.
Job responsibilities will include:
Connecting US churches, business, and individuals to our ministry around the world. An essential part of our ministry is developing long-term partnerships that change the lives of everyone involved – orphans, communities, and those who give and...
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International and National Adoption Grows in Ethiopia This article addresses the huge orphan care need in Ethiopia, as well as the rise in both international adoption and national adoption: http://mnnonline.org/article/14648
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: Bethany Christian Services |
The Post-Placement Journey Webinar This week the Christian Alliance for Orphans hosted the Post Placement Journey webinar. Dr. Karyn Purvis and Amy Monroe provided practical insights and resources to equip adoption and foster care ministries to help families meet the challenges of loving, nurturing and building strong relationships with children from hard places. In case you missed it, you can view it here:
The...
| Type: Audio | | Related Organization: Christian Alliance for Orphans |
Orphan Bible Verses Scripture has much to say about about orphans. Here is a list of most of the relevant verses:
Exodus 22:22-24
Do not take advantage of a widow or an orphan. If you do and they cry out to me, I will certainly hear their cry. My anger will be aroused, and I will kill you with the sword; your wives will become widows and your children fatherless.
Deuteronomy 10:18
He defends the...
Playful Interaction Play puts the fun in fundamental - central to a child's well-being now and in the future. Through play, children learn to develop the social and emotional skills they need to succeed in life. Playful Interaction, featuring child development experts, Dr. Karyn Purvis and Dr. David Cross, along with other child development experts, outlines the importance of play and provides practical examples of...
| Type: Video/DVD | | Related Organization: Empowered to Connect |
Healthy Touch Touch is a universal language - more dynamic and powerful than any other form of communication. More than an integral part of everyday life. Touch is essential to our very existence. Healthy Touch features child development experts, Dr. Karyn Purvis and Dr. David Cross, along with other renowned experts. It explores research about touch and provides practical applications for adding healthy touch...
| Type: Video/DVD | | Related Organization: Empowered to Connect |
Empowering, Connecting & Correcting Principles In this nearly two-hour presentation, Dr. Purvis, a developmental psychologist, explains her research-based approach with children who come from what she calls “hard places.” These are children who have been exposed to drugs and alcohol in utero or suffered abuse, trauma or neglect early in life. She explains how harm during these critical stages of brain growth causes significant...
| Type: Video/DVD | | Related Organization: Empowered to Connect |
The Neurochemistry of Fear The fundamental goal of this seminar is to empower parents and professionals to become healers in the lives of at-risk children and to discuss interventions developed through our work with families of at-risk children. Tragically, children who have been harmed, neglected and/or abused are at significantly increased risk for behavioral problems, relationship failures and early-onset mental illness....
| Type: Video/DVD | | Related Organization: Empowered to Connect |
Healing Research This seminar helps parents and professionals understand how past and current research gives insights into the behaviors of at-risk children. Dr. Purvis focuses on undertanding how physiological alterations are induced by neglect, abuse or trauma.
For more information or to purchase, click here: http://www.child.tcu.edu/DVD%20Sales.asp
| Type: Video/DVD | | Related Organization: Empowered to Connect |
Facilitating Behavioral Change One of the most commonly asked questions for the staff at The Institute of Child Development is how to deal with "problem behaviors". In this DVD Dr. Purvis explores the concepts of connecting and correcting principles. The information in this session is an introduction to the unique approach developed by Dr. Purvis and offers some examples of applying these to real life situations.
For...
| Type: Video/DVD | | Related Organization: Empowered to Connect |
The Attachment Dance The attachment relationship betwen parents and their children is one of the most cherished experiences of our lives. This DVD focuses on recognizing features of the attachment relationship, how to help your child heal from attachment problems and facing your own attachment so that you can become a healer for your child. Information shared in this seminar is designed to enrich your understanding of...
| Type: Video/DVD | | Related Organization: Empowered to Connect |
A Sensory World: Making Sense of Sensory Disorders Children from hard places are often impacted in many different ways by their histories. One of the most profound, yet often overlooked, is the way in which these children’s sensory processing is affected. The new educational video, A Sensory World: Making Sense of Sensory Disorders, produced by the TCU Institute of Child Development features Dr. Karyn Purvis and offers insights...
How to Talk to Teachers about Adoption "Children who have experienced less than optimal care in the beginning of their life (orphanage care, abusive and/or neglectful birth home, extended or multiple foster care
placements, etc) often have challenges (attachment issues, behavioral or learning issues, developmental delays, sensory integration needs, etc) that impact their school experience. And all adoptees (even those adopted at...
Convention on the Rights of the Child Adopted and opened for signature, ratification and accession by General Assembly resolution 44/25 of 20 November 1989
Entry into force 2 September 1990, in accordance with article 49
Preamble
The States Parties to the present Convention,
Considering that, in accordance with the principles proclaimed in the Charter of the United Nations, recognition of the inherent dignity and of the...
Answering Other Kids' Adoption Questions This article from parenting.com gives advice to parents on how to help your adopted child handle questions about adoption from other children:
http://www.parenting.com/article/Fertility/Development/Answering-Other-Kids-Adoption-Questions
Safe Families Model Webinar This webinar, hosted by the Christian Alliance for Orphans, highlights the Safe Families Model which provides a transformational alternative to foster care that makes the homes of local Christians and their church community the center of care. This model now serves more than 1,000 youth in the Chicago area each year, and is now being replicated by Alliance organizations and churches in...
| Type: Websource | | Related Organization: Christian Alliance for Orphans |
A Skeptic's View on Child Sponsorship "Do you ever wonder what happens to that $35 you donate every month to a child sponsorship organization? Are you a little skeptical that the money you give is actually going to sponsoring a child instead of a mismanaged nonprofit? If that’s you, I’m with you. A couple years ago, I had convinced myself the money I was giving each month wasn’t actually reaching the child whose...
5 Steps to put Action to Compassion This article by Children's HopeChest's Tom Davis shares 5 practical steps for putting your compassion into action:
http://www.relevantmagazine.com/worldview/features/21521-whats-in-your
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: Children's HopeChest |
Is Adoption the Answer? This article addresses adoption and it's strengths and limitations in solving the global orphan crisis. To read the article, click here: http://www.aaronklein.com/2010/08/is-adoption-the-answer/
We're Home! Now What? How to Settle in and Thrive as a New Adoptive Family
Your long awaited international arrival has happened and your new family is formed. Hooray! After the excitement has worn off, reality of this new life settles in.
Now what?
These courses were designed to address immediate issues families face while getting to know one another. Practical suggestions included relate to:...
Bible Study on the Helper of the Fatherless This resource is a guided Bible Study about God's heart for orphans and the fatherless. It offers specific instructions and suggestions that the Bible Study leader can use to fascilitate the study:
http://erlc.com/article/bible-study-on-the-helper-of-the-fatherless/
Trafficking Testimonies This site offers testimonies of individuals trafficked around the world. Reader discretion advised:
http://ex-oriente-lux.org/victim.html
Stopping sexual abuse of Russian kids This article addresses the recent rise in child abuse and child prostitution and pornography in Russia: http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/eo20070911cc.html
Beyond Benefits: More Ways to Make Your Workplace Adoption-Friendly This booklet suggests opportunities for employers to help employees who are considering adoption, are engaged in the process, or have already adopted and ways to promote the cause of adoption in the workplace. Created with the support of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
http://www.davethomasfoundation.org/Free-Adoption-Resources/Adoption-Benefits
Adoption Benefits Toolkit for Employers A two-part toolkit to establish adoption benefits, such as financial reimbursement and paid leave for employee who adopt: includes a folder and CD-rom with step-by-step instructions to establish a policy; and the booklet Beyond Benefits: More Ways to Make Your Workplace Adoption-Friendly. The CD-rom includes customizable documents and samples, making it easy to propose and establish an adoption...
Adoption Benefits Toolkit for Employees A three-part toolkit to propose adoption benefits to your employer: includes a folder and CD-rom for you to give to your employer; a folder and CD-rom for you to use and keep; and the booklet Beyond Benefits: More Ways to Make Your Workplace Adoption-Friendly. The CD-rom includes customizable documents and samples, making it easy to propose and establish an adoption benefits...
Whittling Compassion: Honing a "Concern" In this article, Christian Alliance for Orphan's Jedd Medefind addresses ways in which believers can take their general, overall compassion for the world and hone it into specific, focused action.
To read the full article, click here: http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/2102/
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: Christian Alliance for Orphans |
Blog excerpt on starting a church orphan ministry Read this helpful blog entry by Hope for Orphans about what to do when "your church doesn't get it" about adoption and orphan care:
http://hopefororphansblog.com/2010/08/16/when-your-church-doesnt-get-it/
| Type: Blog | | Related Organization: Hope for Orphans |
Adoption Awareness in School Assignments: A Guide for Parents and Educators
Several common school assignments can make foster and adoptive children feel left out, uncomfortable, sad, and hurt. Projects like the ‘Family Tree’, ‘Bring-a-Baby Picture’ and ‘Trace Your Genetic Traits’ can be particularly difficult for students adopted at older ages; however, children adopted as infants and those living in foster care may also lack...
Choosing to SEE: A Journey of Struggle and Hope This book tells the story of Steven Curtis Chapman and his wife Mary Beth's journey through courtship, marriage, adoption, and loss.
From the back cover:
"I've told my kids for years that God doesn't make mistakes," writes Mary Beth Chapman, wife of Grammy award winning recording artist Steven Curtis Chapman. "Would I believe it now, when my whole world as I knew it came to an...
Podcast on the Christian Orphan Movement In this podcast Catalyst leader Ken Coleman interviews Jedd Medefind about the Christian Alliance for Orphans and the Christian orphan movement in churches across the US today:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2809712/Catalyst%20-%20Jedd%20Medefind%20Interview%202010.mp3
| Type: Audio | | Related Organization: Christian Alliance for Orphans |
Launching an Orphan Ministry in Your Church Video This video from Hope for Orphans shares how you can start an orphan ministry in your own local church. In addition, it shares the stories of families who have successfully started orphan ministries.
http://www.hopefororphans.org/Display.asp?Page=orphansministry
| Type: Church Resource | | Related Organization: Hope for Orphans |
What Does It Mean to Live by Faith in the Service of the Fatherless John Piper spoke at Summit VI, this year's annual event put on by the Christian Alliance for Orphans. His message was from Hebrews 11:29-38 and titled: "What Does It Mean to Live by Faith in the Service of the Fatherless?" (read the manuscript).
Here's a summarizing paragraph from near the end of his message:
"The great challenge of adoption and orphan care ministry is to...
| Type: Church Resource | | Related Organization: Christian Alliance for Orphans |
Project 1.27 God loves children. But for 80 years too many children and youth have been languishing in the U.S. foster care system. That’s too long. Over 120,000 of them are legally free for adoption and waiting for their forever homes and every year their numbers keep growing. It’s costing taxpayers $283 million a day! In 2005 there were 875 legally free children in Colorado. But something amazing...
Priceless: A Novel on the Edge of the World This book, by author Tom Davis, tells the fictional story of Stuart Daniels, a photojournalist who has found purpose in life. After suffering the fallout of a tragic assignment, Daniels rediscovered his faith while helping a young African orphan. Now his photo work carries a greater mission: To educate people about social injustice happening around the world.
Daniels next assignment...
| Type: Book | | Related Organization: Children's HopeChest |
Learning & Un-Learning to Parent Your Child Children from hard places have unique histories and needs. As a result, parents of these children need to learn how to love and parent them well. This requires that parents not only learn strategies that will be effective in helping them heal, but they will also need to ‘un-learn’ previous ways of parenting — whether those are parenting strategies that were successful...
| Type: Church Resource | | Related Organization: Empowered to Connect |
Helping Your Adopted Child Long before you decided to adopt, long before your child was born, God planned to put your adopted child into your home. Your child is an amazing gift from God, but nurturing an adopted child also brings unique challenges. Understanding your adopted child from Gods perspec tive will allow you to address those challenges by faith and with hope. Learn from counselor and adoptive father Paul...
Too Small to Ignore: Why Children are the Next Big Thing As president and CEO of Compassion International, a Christian child sponsorship agency, Dr. Wess Stafford is naturally passionate about children. But in his book TOO SMALL TO IGNORE: Why Children Are the Next Big Thing, Stafford goes beyond heartfelt excitement to build a compelling case as to why investing heavily in children will not only transform the face of Christianity but also our world. --...
The One Factor - How One Changes Everything This book offers hope and ideas for how you, as one person, can make a difference in your community and in your world. For more information or to purchase, click below:
The Theology of Adoption Prior to implementing an orphan care strategy, it is important for us to reflect on why we care for orphans. Clearly Scripture calls us to do so, but our obediance is only part of the story. By God's grace and sovereignty, He has adopted us into His family, making it possible for us to engage and sustain orphan care initiatives. The following reflection on our spiritual adoption...
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: Together for Adoption |
Global Orphans: The Numbers This great blog article by Christian Alliance for Orphan's Jedd Medefind helps make sense of often-varying global orphan statistics and how they relate to a biblical response:
http://chrisitianallianceblog.org/?p=790
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: Christian Alliance for Orphans |
Adoption's Assurance This article by Together for Adoption's Dan Cruver discusses our adoption in Christ, and the impact it has when we truly grasp that we are God's sons and daughters. Click below to read the articles:
Part one: http://www.togetherforadoption.org/?p=78
Part two: http://www.togetherforadoption.org/?p=82
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: Together for Adoption |
The Forgotten Part of James 1:27 This great article by Together for Adoption's Dan Cruver breaks down James 1:27 to provide fresh insights for those caring for orphans. Click the links below to read the article:
Part One: http://www.togetherforadoption.org/?p=1155
Part Two: http://www.togetherforadoption.org/?p=1472
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: Together for Adoption |
A Cup of Comfort for Adoptive Families: Stories that celebrate a special gift of love It takes a loving and caring couple to bring an adopted child into their home. And every year, thousands of couples make room in their homes--and their hearts--for these special children. This story collection celebrates the individuals and families who experience these feelings firsthand. From first-time parents, anxiously awaiting the phone call that their little one has arrived to a single...
Better Care Network Toolkit This resource is to aid social work and child care practitioners and policy makers around the world in planning and providing better care for children—including family strengthening and out of home placement. Divided in five categories, the Toolkit contains a selection of practical guides and manuals to support a quality care system and the delivery of alternative...
AIDS, Orphans, and the Church Join guest radio host Dan Cruver as he interviews Dr. Susan Hillis (Senior HIV Scientist at the CDC), Dr. Karyn Purvis, and Elizabeth Styffe. To listen to the audio, click below:
http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=719101347440
Finding a Place to Start Parents who are struggling to connect with their children often find it difficult to find any real measure of hope. In this brief video, Dr. Karyn Purvis talks about the importance for parents to find even a single point of connection as way to build a bridge so that they can begin to reach their child.
Finding A Place to Start from Tapestry on Vimeo.
| Type: Video/DVD | | Related Organization: Empowered to Connect |
HumanTrafficking Statistics This website offers a variety of statistics on human trafficking:
http://www.thehomefoundation.net/the-sobering-facts/
My Portable Life: Reluctant Runaway Finds Families for Thousands of Children This autobiography by Jean Erichsen tells the story of how she went from being a neglected, abused child to become an adoptive mother and an orphan advocate. For more information or to purchase, click below:
The Quest to Reclaim Adoption This great article by Together for Adoption's Dan Cruver talks about the importance of understanding our vertical adoption (by God) before we think about horizontal adoption:
http://www.togetherforadoption.org/?p=8122
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: Together for Adoption |
A Conversation with the Tuohy's Can you imagine someone wanting to make a movie of your life? Today Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy tell how the movie blockbuster and story of their lives, The Blind Side, came to be. Sean and Leigh Anne also recall their childhoods and tell how their home lives helped mold their philosophy of giving today.
Join the FamilyLife team for this radio broadcast with Sean and Leigh Anne Touhy:...
Ukraine Adoption Procedural Changes This website offers an update from July, 2010 on adoption procedures in Ukraine, particularly on the visa process at the embassy:
http://ukrainiac.wordpress.com/2010/07/08/ukraine-adoption-procedural-changes/
12 Month Church Adoption Awareness Plan This great plan has ideas for monthly activities that can happen in a church over the course of 12 months to increase orphan/adoption awareness. Each idea takes only a few minutes of time during a Sunday service, and only happens once a month. In addition, the plan contains great paragraphs to include in a church bulletin. If you're looking for ways to encourage adoption and...
Adoption Video from Bethany Christian Services This general adoption video from Bethany Christian Services would be great to show in a church service or introductory meeting about adoption:
http://www.fivestone.com/news/bethany-final.html
| Type: Video/DVD | | Related Organization: Bethany Christian Services |
North American Outreach Coordinator Needed for Big Family Mission Big Family Mission is looking for a special person to help carry their ministry to Russian orphans into the future.
Their coordinator for North America will be responsible for building relationships among churches, ministries, and individual Christians to help Big Family Mission continue its ministry to orphans and children at risk in Russia and Eastern European countries.
Because the...
| Type: Available | | Related Organization: Big Family Mission |
Mending the Soul: Understanding and Healing Abuse This book is a well-researched, biblically, and scientifically based overview of the various types of abuse, the effects, and the means of healing.-- Review from Amazon.com
For more information or to purchase this book, click here:
Field Guide to Child Welfare, Volumes I-IV The "Field Guide to Child Welfare" is a comprehensive, four-volume resource for child welfare workers and supervisors to use in their everyday practice. The guide describes basic theory, practical application, and pertinent case examples and examines specialized practice issues related to adoption, sexual abuse, cultural competency, and children with developmental disabilities. The Field...
20 Things Adoptive Parents Need to Succeed "A must-read and must-keep resource for all adoptive parents, getting straight to the core of adoption issues. This is one of the most validating books for adoptive parents I have ever read, helping them to know not only that their experiences are different but how to turn challenges into healing moments." —Review by Heather T. Forbes, LCSW, author of Beyond Consequences, Logic,...
Wounded Children, Healing Homes Why doesn’t our child return our love? What are we failing to understand? What are we failing to do? These questions can fill the minds of adoptive parents caring for wounded, traumatized children.
Families often enter into this experience with high expectations for their child and for themselves but are broadsided by shattered assumptions. This book addresses the reality of those unmet...
Churches Adopt Adoption This Christianity Today article shares about the growing trend in churches across the US to both get real about the challenges in adoption, as well as to provide support for families who have brought children home.
Click here to read the article: http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2010/july/11.23.html?start=1
FamilyLife Today Insterview with Dr. Karyn Purvis
Recently Dr. Karyn Purvis was interviewed on the FamilyLife Today radio program. During this three part interview, Dr. Purvis discusses the characteristics of children from hard places, the importance of parents having realistic expectations and tools and strategies that can help parents effectively correct behaviors and develop strong and lasting connections...
How to Help Without Hurting "This week the Alliance hosted the first in its monthly webinar series for church orphan ministries. The series is designed to help individuals like you create and grow effective adoption, foster care and global orphan ministry in local churches.
You can watch the webinar “How to Help without Hurting” here. Alongside other practical advice, presenters Elizabeth Styffe...
| Type: Video/DVD | | Related Organization: Christian Alliance for Orphans |
Call to Me: How the Bible Speaks in the Age of AIDS Call to Me is no. 7 in the Called to Care toolkit, which is designed for use by churches, faith-based organisations, NGOs and community groups, especially in sub-Saharan Africa.
This 76-page handbook consists of 20 Bible studies on topics related to HIV and AIDS, e.g. sex and sexuality; healing; death, grief and mourning; stigma, discrimination and denial; church leadership; marriage; fear and...
Crisis Care Training Curriculum (Module 1) Announcing...
A New Training Tool!
Curriculum & Module Developer: Phyllis Kilbourn, Ph.D.
This 15-lesson module (212 pages) provides an understanding of the impact of trauma-produced losses in the life of a child and how to restore those losses.
The lessons place emphasis on holistic ministry, covering various effective intervention principles that promote healing and facilitate...
| Type: Ministry Model | | Related Organization: Crisis Care Training International |
Understanding the Importance of Neurotransmitters Neurotransmitters are the chemical messengers that help our bodies think, feel and move. However, the levels of key neurotransitters in many children from hard places are often too high, too low and/or out of balance. In this brief video, Dr. Karyn Purvis explains the importance of neurotransmitters, both in terms of helping parents gain new insight and compassion for their children and also for...
| Type: Video/DVD | | Related Organization: Empowered to Connect |
The Great Behavior Breakdown The Great Behavior Breakdown identifies 27 of the most problematic, serious, and challenging behaviors that parents face, broken them down, and provided step-by-step guidance and insight for transforming your family conflict immediately. This is a must-read book for any parent or professional working with children who have seemingly uncontrollable behavior. Common diagnoses for such children are...
Foster Parenting Podcast This podcast is an interview with adoptive and foster parents that provides helpful hints for families.
http://adoptivedads.org/foster-parenting-podcast?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+adoptivedads+(Adoptive+Dads)
Adoption Conference Audio Sessions by Dr. Russell Moore Click below to listen to three different audio sessions on adoption which were given by Dr. Russell Moore at the First Baptist Church of Wolfforth's Adoption Conference in June, 2010:
http://fbcwolfforth.org/index.php?mact=PodcastManager,m4,default,1&m4groupid=6&m4displayfiles=true&m4returnid=83&page=83
Preparing Kids in Your Home for Fostering Click below to read a helpful article/tip sheet about preparing kids in your home to foster:
http://www.wifostercareandadoption.org/library/1047/preparingyourkids.pdf
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: Adoption Resources of Wisconsin |
Trafficking in Persons Report 2010 "The 10th annual Trafficking in Persons Report outlines the continuing challenges across the globe, including in the United States. The Report, for the first time, includes a ranking of the United States based on the same standards to which we hold other countries. The United States takes its first-ever ranking not as a reprieve but as a responsibility to strengthen global efforts against...
Making Orphan Ministry a Family Affair Click the link below to read a great blog post by Christian Alliance for Orphan's Jedd Medefind about how you can get your family involved in ministry to orphans:
http://chrisitianallianceblog.org/?p=718
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: Christian Alliance for Orphans |
How to Talk to my Kids about Adoption Watch below as Christian counselor Julie Lowe responds to this question that so many families ask:
Setting Your Child Up to Succeed Parents often focus much of their attention on obtaining the right skills and strategies to effectively deal with misbehavior — and this is for good reason. All parents of children from hard places need to understand how to address misbehavior in ways that correct while still connecting. But parents also need to understand the importance of setting their child up to succeed.
In this brief...
| Type: Video/DVD | | Related Organization: Empowered to Connect |
Alone in the World: Orphans and Orphanages in America Orphans and orphanages, although topics of interest in children's fiction, have been neglected in nonfiction except for accounts of the orphan trains of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This gap has now been filled by Reef's thoroughly researched history of children's homes in the U.S. beginning in 1729, when a place for girls was founded in New Orleans. The author relates how many orphaned...
July Christianity Today Article Sounds the Call to Serve Orphans The July cover of Christianity Today should excite every orphan advocate-- on the cover, there is a picture of a small child with the title "Abba Changes Everything: Why Every Christian is Called to Rescue Orphans".
Click here to read more about the article: http://chrisitianallianceblog.org/?p=736
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: Christian Alliance for Orphans |
Hello, I Love You: Adventures in Adoptive Fatherhood This is the story of two international adoptions, complete with piles of cash, passport checks, airport con-men, electrocution, and Ukrainian cops on our doorstep with guns. It’s all part of the wild ride that is international adoption. But so is God’s faithfulness taking new forms each day through the love of friends, the support of family, the comfort of Scripture, and the fellowship...
Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk: A Caseworker's Story Marc Parent worked for four years as a caseworker for Emergency Children's Services in New York, acting as the final protector of children from abusive parents, as "the one on the front line--the last hope for a kid in trouble." His job was to make house calls and decide if a child needed to be removed at once. He has selected eight cases illustrating the extreme pressures of the work...
Reckless Faith: Let Go and Be Led Thirteen years ago, a mission trip inspired a young couple to move to Mexico to care for orphans and other children. True stories drawn from their ministry experiences challenge readers to trust God to show up exactly when and where He’s needed
most.-- Review from Amazon.com
The Freedom and Confidence of Our Adoption by God This article from Together for Adoption's Dan Cruver talks through an important aspect of the theology of adoption:
http://www.togetherforadoption.org/?p=7009
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: Together for Adoption |
Surprised by Grief This article tells the true story of musician Steven Curtis Chapman and his family's journey through grief over the past two years since the death of their adopted daughter:
http://strang.imirus.com/Mpowered/imirus.jsp?volume=str10&issue=6&page=80
I Wished for You: an Adoption Story Wished for You: an adoption story follows a conversation between Barley Bear and his Mama as they curl up in their favorite cuddle spot and discuss how they became a family. Barley asks Mama the questions many adopted children have, and Mama lovingly answers them all.-- Review from Amazon.com
For more information or to purchase this book, click here:
Beneath the Mask: Understanding Adopted Teens Working with adopted adolescents is complex. The key to successful therapy and healthy development is to help the adolescent discover and accept the person within. Parents will discover: •the six most common adoption stuck-spots •the complexities of adoption •the adopted teen’s quest for identity •how therapy may help the adoptive families learn and grow together....
Adoption Lifebook: A Bridge to Your Child's Beginnings 'Adoption Lifebook: A Bridge to Your Child's Beginnings' is a new, easy-to-read workbook for international adoptive parents and waiting parents who wish to document their children's early lives for them, in the form of a lifebook. Through exercises and text, readers become more comfortable telling children the truth about their beginnings while emphasizing their strengths and resilience. Adoption...
LifeBooks : Creating a Treasure for the Adopted Child From Alaska to Australia the word is spreading. Adoptive parents are discovering the enormous value of adoption lifebooks. But then the questions begin. Where do I start? What information should be included? Do I let my child bring it to school?
Beth O’Malley M.Ed. provides the answers to these and more. In her best selling book, LifeBooks: Creating a Treasure for the Adopted Child Beth...
Forever Fingerprints: An Amazing Discovery for Adopted Children For adopted children, learning about their beginnings and how they understand what that means to them is a process. It doesn t happen at one point in time, but rather throughout the experiences of life. In this heartwarming children s book, Forever Fingerprints uses a common occurrence a relative s pregnancy as a springboard for discussions on birthparents, where adopted children are before they...
Pieces of Me: Who do I Want to Be Grade 9 Up—This title refers to the "pieces" that adoptees must identify, gather, and put together properly in order to make themselves whole. It is a compendium of poems, essays, drawings, quotations, and photos created by adoptees, from 12 to 60+, intended to "offer practical insight and hope" to other adoptees. Each contributor is introduced in a brief biographical...
Cassie Wonders: Adoption Questions asked by a 6 1/2 year old This books is fully illustrated and inspired by a young Adoptee. Cassie is a happy and cheerful six and 1/2 year old. Naturally, she has questions and even her own thoughts about her adoption and birth parents. She sometimes even wonders if this world is fair. Some questions her parents can answer but, even when they can't her adoptive parents find ways to assure Cassie that she is special in this...
We See the Moon An elegant and evocative book for adopted children to open the birthparent and adoption dialog between parent and child.
Many adult adoptees have gone through life wanting to ask questions about their birthparents, but felt the thoughts they have might make their parents uncomfortable. Then, these questions have remained unasked and unanswered. "We See the Moon" opens the adoption...
I Don't Have Your Eyes Family connections are vitally important to children as they begin to find their place in the world. For transracial and transcultural adoptees, domestic adoptees, and for children in foster care or kinship placements, celebrating the differences within their families as well as the similarities that connect them, is the foundation for belonging. As parents or caregivers, we can strengthen our...
Adoption Parenting: Creating a Toolbox, Building Connections Featuring over 100 contributors overseen by EMK Press writer-editors MacLeod and Macrae, this book is a virtual one-stop shop for adoption information for readers at any knowledge level. Divided into chapters like "Sleep," "Claiming," "Language," and "Food," it touches upon major issues in brief essays written by adoptive parents, adoptees, and therapists....
Realistic Expectations: The First Year Home Download this free e-book that answers many questions adoptive parents have during the first year their child is with them:
http://www.emkpress.com/realisticexpectations.html
Love Lessons: Understanding, Learning, and Finding Purpose While Raising Challenging Children This book will take you on a journey of discovery and healing through a mother's eyes. It uncovers the truth about childhood trauma, how it affects the mind and spirit, and what is required to repair the broken bonds of attachment and trust. It is a personal tutorial in lessons of heartache and hope, despair and dedication, failures and forgiveness. Understanding, Learning, and finding purpose...
Crossing the Sahara This excellent article by the director of the Christian Alliance for Orphans, Jedd Medefind, addresses the hard question that so many of us have wrestled with: Given the struggle and sorrow that mark so many attempts at bringing justice and mercy, is there really any motivation that can keep us in this work for the long haul?
http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/2031/
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: Christian Alliance for Orphans |
The Last Babylift: Adopting a Child in Haiti This article, which appeared in the New Yorker in early May, 2010 tells the true story of a family whose adoption of a Haitian girl through Holt International was processed in the aftermath of the January earthquake. While specifically a story about Haiti, this thought-provoking article contains many important themes about international adoption.
To read the full article, click here:...
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: Holt International |
Kazakhstan - Adoption Alert The U.S. Consulate General in Almaty received confirmation that the Ministry of Education in Kazakhstan has given instructions to the Kazakhstani Embassy and Consulate in New York not to accept new dossiers for inter-country adoptions. The Ministry said that this moratorium on new adoption cases will remain in effect until Kazakhstan implements a Hague Convention-compliant system, which it intends...
She is Priceless Website This website shares great articles on human trafficking around the world, as well as ideas for ways you can get involved in fighting against trafficking.
http://www.sheispriceless.com/
| Type: Book | | Related Organization: Children's HopeChest |
Foster Parent Handbook The Foster Care and Adoption Resource Center staff and members of a statewide work group created the model for the Wisconsin Foster Parent Handbook contained below.
http://www.wifostercareandadoption.org/snav/292/page.htm
| Type: Curriculum | | Related Organization: Adoption Resources of Wisconsin |
At the End of Slavery Each At the End of Slavery house party kit ($15 USD, including U.S. shipping) includes two copies of the film (one for your viewing and one to share with a friend) and resources to help you plan a successful house party – from discussion questions to planning checklists.
Each kit also includes 15 Abolition Postcards asking your representatives to support anti-slavery legislation – IJM...
Saddleback's Civil Forum on Orphans and Adoption The Global Orphan Crisis impacts the lives of 143 million children every day. Change the statistics and engage in this urgent challenge. Join Susan Hillis, Russell Moore, Mike Ryan, Elizabeth Styffe, and Rick Warren at the Saddleback Civil Forum on Orphans & Adoption. Click here to watch the video of the event:
http://www.saddlebackcivilforum.com/orphansandadoption/
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Video Coverage of Summit VI A CBN headline news story today opened a poignant window into last month’s Summit VI and the rising tide of Christian commitment to orphans. Commentary by Pat Robertson following the news segment, however, is likely to prod fierce discussion... click here to watch the news story and read the rest of the written report!
| Type: Video/DVD | | Related Organization: Christian Alliance for Orphans |
Discovering Haiti's "Rescued" This video tells the amazing story of an American family called as missionaries to Haiti years before the 2010 earthquake. It tells of their work with children prior to the quake, the miraculous ways God protected them during the quake, and their current situation as they deal with the effects of the quake.
The original video can be found at...
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Dare to Love Completely Follow a young woman off the plane, down winding dusty paths, and through the doors of an orphanage where children are waiting to teach you the most important lessons in life. Travel past the orphanage to the surrounding villages, and stoop inside darkened huts to greet men, women, and children whose stories of amazing faith give you strength and courage to go forth and fight the everyday battles....
Updated Global Orphan Numbers -- 2010 Dr. Susan Hillis of the CDC is one of the world’s top researchers on the relationship between HIV/AIDS and a host of issues facing orphans. Recently, Dr. Hillis shared with us the just-released U.S. government assessment on orphans and vulnerability children, which was delivered to Congress in December, 2009.
The report delivers highly-important data and analysis of the global...
The Weight of Silence: Invisible Children of India This book tells the heartbreaking story of the many poor and underprivleged children in India. It also shares hope for their futures: http://www.amazon.com/Weight-Silence-Invisible-Children-India/dp/0980232376/ref=tmm_pap_title_0
Connecting With Kids Through Stories: Using Narratives To Facilitate Attachment In Adopted Children Children whose early development has been damaged by abuse or neglect are notoriously difficult to reach. Through many years' therapeutic work with adopted children and their families, Denise B. Lacher and Todd Nichols have developed an exciting and innovative technique which uses stories as the main mode for helping parents to communicate and connect with their troubled children. Connecting with...
Understanding Post-Adoption Depression This helpful article in the New York Times discusses the topic of post-adoption depression, and how it can effect families. To read the article, click here: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/31/understanding-post-adoption-depression/?src=tptw
US Adoption in a 40% Decline "With 150 million orphans in the world, we should be seeing a dramatic increase in the number of orphans who are adopted every year in the United States. But sadly, the opposite is true. Adoptions have been decreasing every year since 2004.
A new article in the May edition of Christianity Today says this, "Since 2004, these and other restrictions have resulted in a 40 percent decline...
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: Children's HopeChest |
Addition by Adoption Love, laughter and lunacy in 140 characters. A work-at-home dad turns to Twitter to share updates about kids, causes and life. It's a curated selection of bizarre quotes, funny stories and temper tantrums. Woven between potty-training woes and breakfast time songs is a family growing through adoption and learning how to change the world, one status update at a time. You'll find humor, parental...
Positive Parenting This articles strives to:
• Discuss the concept of “positive” parenting.
• Explain the developmental stages children experience to achieve self-confidence.
• Identify twelve common behavorial problems and offer a positive response to each.
• Provide an action plan of positive parenting strategies.
• List resources — including books and websites...
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: Adoption Resources of Wisconsin |
Team Building – Family, School, Therapists and Healthcare Workers OBJECTIVES:
This article seeks to assist families involved in adoption and foster care to develop advocacy and team building skills by:
• Defining and identifying family management styles when a child has special medical, physical, or emotional needs.
• Identifying necessary elements of professional team involvement.
• Providing information for choosing therapists, counselors...
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: Adoption Resources of Wisconsin |
Me, My Child and the Teachers: Teaming Up at School Many children, including adopted and foster children, have exceptional education needs. These children will also have emotional challenges and turmoil that can seem overwhelming in almost any household, where caretakers are often balancing the needs of other children, homework help, daily chores and extra-curricular involvement.
When parents or caretakers face raising and schooling children with...
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: Adoption Resources of Wisconsin |
The Adopted Child Goes To School When the child enters school, it may be the first time he is confronted with adoption issues. He may realize for the first time that there are different ways of forming a family, and that he is different from other kids as he has joined his family through adoption. Questions of “real family”, “birth parent” and identity may confuse him, especially if there has not been an...
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: Adoption Resources of Wisconsin |
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) involves a pattern of behaviors demonstrated by a person who has experienced extreme trauma. Although we usually think of PTSD affecting war veterans (also known as “shell shock”), PTSD can affect anyone who has lived through a terrifying, overwhelming trauma. As family therapist Valerie Jensen explains, “Trauma is the mental result of one...
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Parenting the Traumatized Child This article:
• Identifies behaviors in children who have been traumatized.
• Identifies behaviors that make parenting a challenge when traumatized children act out.
• Identify the stages of recovery from trauma.
• Develop positive strategies, including storytelling, for family interaction and growth.
To read the full article, click here:...
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: Adoption Resources of Wisconsin |
Oppositional Defiant Disorder ODD is a persistent pattern of negative, hostile, disobedient and defiant behaviors in a child or adolescent that have not yet reached the point of seriously violating the basic rights of others. It is a disorder of childhood and adolescence that usually begins by age 8.
This article strives to:
• Review data and characteristics of ODD.
• Discuss ODD in relation to other...
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: Adoption Resources of Wisconsin |
Childhood Depression, Dysthymia and Bipolar Illness This helpful article seeks to assist pre-adoptive and post-adoptive families involved in the adoption of children with developmental delays and disabilities by:
• Understanding the nature of depression in children.
• Differentiating between depression and dysthymia disorder (a lesser degree of similar symptoms).
• Understanding bi-polar illness ( also known as manic-depressive...
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: Adoption Resources of Wisconsin |
Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) involves a persistent pattern of behavior which begins before age 7. Children with ADHD demonstrate difficulty in two major areas: attention and hyperactivity-impulsivity. They have short attention spans, are easily distracted and have difficulty focusing on, planning and completing routine tasks. They tend to be very active (hyperactivity) and to...
Attachment in Adopted Children
Attachment is the emotional connection that infants and children develop toward their parents and others who care for them. Attachment is often seen as an ongoing process. It is through attachment that children begin to develop a sense of who they are and what their place in the world will be. Mary Nervig, a counselor at Adoption Therapy Associates, adds that attachment “is the basis for...
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: Adoption Resources of Wisconsin |
The Adoption Process and Children with Medical Needs This article helps pre-adoptive and post-adoptive families involved in the adoption of children with significant medical needs. It strives to:
• Introduce an empowerment model to help families manage all aspects of care.
• Help families determine what level of care they can handle.
• Encourage families to identify their strengths.
• Identify resources and form...
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: Adoption Resources of Wisconsin |
The Adoption Process & Children With Cognitive Needs This article strives to assist pre-adoptive and post-adoptive families involved in the adoption of children with developmental delays and disabilities by:
• Helping them to determine what level of need they can handle.
• Encouraging families to identify family and individual strengths.
• Identifying resources and forming links to them.
• Facilitating family...
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: Adoption Resources of Wisconsin |
Acquired Substance Abuse Disorders This article strives to:
• Discuss the nature and scope of children affected by maternal substance abuse.
• Provide data on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) in comparison to Fetal Alcohol Effects (FAE).
• Present the often complex nature of cocaine abuse and its effect on children who were exposed to cocaine in utero.
• Consider frequently asked questions regarding maternal...
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: Adoption Resources of Wisconsin |
Abuse and Neglect in Children Children who have been victims of neglect usually have unmet dependency needs such as inadequate or sporadic attention and physical care. These children may have gone without basic necessities such as food and shelter, or they may have received minimal amounts of food, attention and shelter. At early ages, many of these children suffer from “failure to thrive.” They may have low weight...
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: Adoption Resources of Wisconsin |
Adoption Issues In Late Adolescence And Young Adulthood This article straives to assist families involved in adoption to deal with issues of late adolescence and young adulthood by:
• Identifying the psychosocial tasks necessary to development.
• Identifying barriers to healthy development of these tasks.
• Facilitating family involvement to develop independence, self-esteem and identity.
• Providing families with information...
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: Adoption Resources of Wisconsin |
Child Development Personality development occurs in a neurologically programmed sequence. Given a reasonably responsive environment, a child will develop the capacity to love and trust, express emotions, use symbols, think logically, develop self-control and a conscience, all occurring in that predictable sequence.
An abusive or neglectful environment can greatly effect a child's developmental process. This...
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: Adoption Resources of Wisconsin |
The Adoption Process and Children with Life-Threatening Ilnesses Children with life-threatening illnesses bring complex psychological, physical and medical challenges to families. These children might suffer from cancer, heart disease, HIV or AIDS, or a myriad of congenital degenerative conditions. They need families who can deal with the psychological aspects of death and dying while acting as medical advocates to make decisions on care and treatment that...
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: Adoption Resources of Wisconsin |
Difficulty with Bonding—Developing Family Bonds through Adoption While adoptive families often develop strong ties and secure attachments, members of the adoption triad come to the adoption experience through loss. These issues remain in family relationships even when children are adopted at birth. Whether the adoption was an open adoption, a closed adoption, or multi-cultural or international adoption, issues surrounding this loss can be significant.
This...
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: Adoption Resources of Wisconsin |
How Adoption and Foster Care Affect the Family System Just as in birth families, adoptive and foster families usually consist of a parent or parents, sometimes a sibling, and other times many siblings. If grandparents live nearby or are involved in the family, they may become an integral part of the acceptance process. The more involved grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins are with the children, the more impact their response to adoption or foster...
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: Adoption Resources of Wisconsin |
The Safety Net: Building Support Before You Need It Families who are considering adoption of children with special needs need to be aware of the intensively demanding challenges they may encounter. Coping strategies and safety nets need
to be established by caregivers before the children enter the new family. They need to feel that they can handle the demands, yet they need to know when to ask for help. Having “safety nets” in place...
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: Adoption Resources of Wisconsin |
Single Parent Adoption Resource This article on single parent adoptions exists to assist single parents to:
• Learn more about single parent adoption.
• Learn techniques and skills related to the adoption process.
• Understand the challenges of being a single parent.
• Become an advocate for single parent adoptions.
• By providing them with a framework to acknowledge the impact on the entire
family...
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: Adoption Resources of Wisconsin |
Dispossessed: Life in Our World's Urban Slums According to the United Nations, more than one billion people live in urban slums, and this figure will double in the next 30 years. Put another way, one of every three people who lives in a city, lives in a slum. In this enlightening paperback, Mark Kramer, a journalist and social advocate, puts faces on people in dire straits in five cities: Manila, Nairobi, Mexico City, Bangkok, and Cairo.--...
Shaping the Future: Girls and Our Destiny Scripture declares that all children are a gift - an inheritance - from God (Psalm 127:3). To reject the girl child, or to ascribe lesser importance to her, denies God’s justice and character and the truth that all children are created in His image.
This book by Dr. Phylis Kilbourn includes a global overview of girl-child issues stemming from gender discrimination and explores the root...
| Type: Book | | Related Organization: Crisis Care Training International |
At Front Lines, AIDS War Is Falling Apart This New York Times article shares the sobering news about the decline in the global fight against AIDS. Due to the economic crisis, donors that were once giving to support AIDS meds in third world countries are no longer giving, or if they're giving, they're giving significantly less. This means that individuals with AIDS around the world are not getting the meds they need to fight...
The Hole in Our Gospel Stearns, the CEO of World Vision, says Christians have a huge hole in their lives, an emptiness that comes from ignoring the plight of the poor. He details his own quest to fill this hole by leaving Lenox Inc., where he was CEO, to run a not-for-profit that helps feed, clothe, and educate children worldwide. Unlike many evangelical Christians, Stearns believes poverty is explained by something...
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When I Met You: A Story of Russian Adoption "A child's life doesn't begin at adoption, and neither should his adoption story. This charming, delightful narrative of a Russian adoption contrasts a child's life before and after adoption in ways that are respectful and insightful, explanatory and celebratory. From the first page: When I first met you, you lived in Russia, a country far across the ocean. Now, you live here, close to my...
A Terrible Thing Happened - A story for children who have witnessed violence or trauma "Sherman Smith saw the most terrible thing happen. At first he tried to forget about it, but soon something inside him started to bother him. He felt nervous for no reason. Sometimes his stomach hurt. He had bad dreams. And he started to feel angry and do mean things, which got him in trouble. Then he met Ms. Maple, who helped him talk about the terrible thing that he had tried to forget. Now...
Russian Orphanage Offers Love, but Not Families This article from the New York Times brings a lot of clarity to the complexity of the modern Russian orphanage system and the need children have for families:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/04/world/europe/04adopt.html
Update on International Adoption Situation in Russia US adoptions from Russia have not yet been banned, but Russia is seeking additional protections in the adoption process, and meetings with the US will continue on May 12. The following articles are helpful for more detailed information:
May 5 - Official Says US Adoptions Have Not Been Halted
April 30 - Russia Wants Right to Prosecute Parents Who Abuse Adopted Russian Kids
Created to Connect Study Guide Created To Connect: A Christian’s Guide to The Connected Child is a study guide created by Dr. Karyn Purvis and Michael & Amy Monroe to help illuminate the biblical principles that serve as the foundation for the philosophy and interventions detailed in Dr. Purvis’ book, The Connected Child. This study guide is designed to help adoptive and foster parents...
| Type: Curriculum | | Related Organization: Empowered to Connect |
Father of the Fatherless Recently, adoptive father and pastor, David Platt, preached on the ‘Father of the Fatherless’ from Psalm 10. It is a great message expounding on God’s heart of justice for the orphan, our rescue in Christ, and the implications that has on our care for orphans and widows.
Click here to listen to this message:...
Orphan Care Internship Opportunity in Texas
The Austin Stone Church in Austin, Texas is seeking to equip, connect, and mobilize the body of Christ to care for the orphan at the Stone, across the city, and throughout the nations. This internship will provide opportunities to interact in the church body, in collaboration with other churches and non-profits, and with well-established national orphan care...
Dangerous Adoption This article by Paul and Robin Pennington shares both warnings and encouragement for potential adoptive parents:
"By now you no doubt have heard about the Russian 8-year-old adoptee sent by his American adoptive mom….alone…back to Russia with a note. The repercussions of this decision on hundreds of Russian children waiting for families are devastating to be sure. What many...
Embracing the Grief of Adoption This article by Michael Monroe shares both the joy and the grief of adoption:
"I was reminded last night of something I already knew, though I often try to forget it. It is one of the more sobering realities of adoption – the fact that there is no adoption without loss and pain . . . and grief.
As an adoptive dad, like all adoptive parents, my tendency is to focus on the miracle,...
Kay Warren Questions Christianity of Persons who Neglect Orphans Kay Warren had some strong words at the Catalyst West conference for those not involved in orphan care:
"Don't call yourself a believer if you're not caring for orphans, said Kay Warren.
"If we are doing little to nothing, how dare we, how dare we claim to be followers of Jesus Christ," she said Friday. "Followers of Jesus Christ care about widows and orphans and...
Ransomed This novel by author Els Van Hierden tells "the story of the plight of abandoned children in Russia. The story of children left on the door steps of state orphanages; with little hope for the future.
This is David Valensky's story of personal loss, sacrifice, and the struggle he faces in choosing between the call of God on his life, in a mission to street teens in Russia, and a romance...
Ten Questions to Consider As You Explore Adoption These questions from Tapestry adoption ministry are designed to help people who are exploring adoption think through some important considerations and ideas relating to the adoption decision process. Please keep in mind that there are no right or wrong answers to these questions.
After you have thought through your answers you are encouraged to discuss these questions and your thoughts with your...
Adapting Life Rhythms for Compassionate Justice This convicting article by Charles Lee discusses difficult issues in our society today, and gives practical advice on how to address them in our own lives:
"Words like "compassion" and "justice" are becoming commonplace in our cultural landscape. Whether you're an individual, organization, school or business, embedding this kind of language has proven to be beneficial for...
Love Mercy "In Love Mercy: A Mother and Daughter's Journey from the American Dream to the Kingdom of God, having lived a life of plenty in suburban America, Lisa Samson and her eighteen-year-old daughter, Ty, thought they were traveling to Africa to minister to the people and chronicle the AIDS crisis devastating the continent. Their trip, they assumed, would be missional, merciful, giving. Instead,...
Older Child Adoption Website This website is a great resource for anyone who wants to adopt an older child, or who has already adopted an older child. It offers everything from information on the homestudy process to information on post-adoption depression: www.olderchildadoption.com
Children's Books about Adoption Are you looking for good children's books about adoption to read to your adopted child? What about adoption stories to read to your biologic children? This is a great list of books about adoption for small children through teenagers:
Families are Different
by Nina Pellegrini, Holiday House, 1991
This books wraps together different-looking families, and different ways of creating...
Adoption Flap Not Expected to Last Long This is a great article from the Moscow Times which gives an update on the current adoption scandal in Russia:
"A U.S. government delegation will arrive in Moscow next week to discuss rules for American parents who want to adopt Russian children, setting the stage for a resolution of a years-long irritant in U.S.-Russian relations.
Adoptions, a hot-button issue after several Russian...
The Moldovan Crisis Read below to learn from HopeChest's Tom Davis about trafficking in Moldova:
"Being in a country where 30,000 women have literally disappeared is hard to describe. There are over 250 brothels in the capital city of Chisinau and one of the greatest targets for sex-trafficking are girls who leave the orphanages.
Yet, this is a country filled with secrecy. You don't see hundreds of young...
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Same Kind of Different as Me This book tells the true story of a homeless man from Louisianna, and how his life intersects with a wealthy businessman from Texas. I would recommend this book to anyone who does ministry with the homeless or just the poor in general. It is a story of God's redemption, and of how God can teach us through the people we serve.
To learn more or to purchase, click here:...
Caring for Orphans: Options Beyond Adoption You may not feel called to adoption, but there are other ways you can help care for orphan children. This program offers practical suggestions. You'll also be inspired to get involved as David Swoap talks about his ministry to street kids in Brazil and Wendy Perry discusses her childhood experiences in our nation's foster care system.
For more information or to purchase this CD, click here:...
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The Adoption Network: Your Guide to Starting a Support System In The Adoption Network, Laura Christianson, founder and director of Seattle-based Heartbeat Ministries, walks you through the basics of planning and launching a support system for adoptive families, foster families, birth parents, or adoptees. Packed with practical pointers and worksheets, this handbook will equip you with the tools you need to create a vibrant adoption support network.
For more...
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The Adoption Decision: 15 Things You Want to Know Before Adopting Before you make the decision to adopt it's wise to know how adopting will affect your daily life. How will it affect your other children and your marriage? What will be the roll of the birth parents? Here are 15 important questions - and answers - to help you make the right choice in adopting. Includes questions for discussion and reflection - ideal for personal or group study - and additional...
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Successful Adoption: A Guide for Christian Families Have you felt there's an empty place in your family, but the process of adoption seemed too daunting? Find answers to demystify adoption and discover if it's right for your family, how to pay for it, where to find the right agency and how to make sense of the paperwork. It's just a few of the issues covered at length in this essential guidebook for bringing a little one to your doorstep.
For more...
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God's Heart for the Orphan Join Rick and Kay Warren from Saddleback Church as they share what you can do to help orphans in this four part video series.
Effective Discipline Strategies for Adoptive and Foster Families Watch this video from adoption and foster care expert Dr. Karyn Purvis:
Effective Discipline Strategies for Adoptive & Foster Families - Dr. Karyn Purvis from Tapestry on Vimeo.
| Type: Training | | Related Organization: Empowered to Connect |
Adopting for Life-- Conference Audio Files All the talks from the 2010 Adopting for Life conference are now available online! If you weren't able to attend the conference, then take advantage of this great opportunity to listen to the talks now from your own computer: http://www.sbts.edu/resources/category/conferences/adopting-for-life/
Adopting for Life Conference Video-- David Platt This talk by adoptive father and pastor David Platt is from the 2010 Adopted for Life conference.
"David Platt’s message on Ruth and Adoption was one of the most powerful messages I have heard. Period. There was a weight and joy in this message that is rare." -- Review by Jason Kovacs
HIV Country Profile-- Kyrgyzstan This report by the World Heath Organization gives the most up-to-date stats on HIV in Kyrgyzstan, all on one page! It has some great, easy to read charts and graphs.
http://apps.who.int/globalatlas/predefinedReports/EFS2008/short/EFSCountryProfiles2008_KG.pdf
HIV Country Profile-- Uzbekistan This report by the World Heath Organization gives the most up-to-date stats on HIV in Uzbekistan, all on one page! It has some great, easy to read charts and graphs.
http://apps.who.int/globalatlas/predefinedReports/EFS2008/short/EFSCountryProfiles2008_UZ.pdf
HIV Country Profile-- Tajikistan This report by the World Heath Organization gives the most up-to-date stats on HIV in Tajikistan, all on one page! It has some great, easy to read charts and graphs.
http://apps.who.int/globalatlas/predefinedReports/EFS2008/short/EFSCountryProfiles2008_TJ.pdf
HIV Country Profile-- Latvia This report by the World Heath Organization gives the most up-to-date stats on HIV in Latvia, all on one page! It has some great, easy to read charts and graphs.
http://apps.who.int/globalatlas/predefinedReports/EFS2008/short/EFSCountryProfiles2008_LV.pdf
HIV Country Profile-- Kazakhstan This report by the World Heath Organization gives the most up-to-date stats on HIV in Kazakhstan, all on one page! It has some great, easy to read charts and graphs.
http://apps.who.int/globalatlas/predefinedReports/EFS2008/short/EFSCountryProfiles2008_KZ.pdf
HIV Country Profile-- Belarus This report by the World Heath Organization gives the most up-to-date stats on HIV in Belarus, all on one page! It has some great, easy to read charts and graphs.
http://apps.who.int/globalatlas/predefinedReports/EFS2008/short/EFSCountryProfiles2008_BY.pdf
HIV Country Profile-- Armenia This report by the World Heath Organization gives the most up-to-date stats on HIV in Armenia, all on one page! It has some great, easy to read charts and graphs.
http://apps.who.int/globalatlas/predefinedReports/EFS2008/short/EFSCountryProfiles2008_AM.pdf
HIV Country Profile-- Azerbaijan This report by the World Heath Organization gives the most up-to-date stats on HIV in Azerbaijan, all on one page! It has some great, easy to read charts and graphs.
http://apps.who.int/globalatlas/predefinedReports/EFS2008/short/EFSCountryProfiles2008_AZ.pdf
HIV Country Profile-- Ukraine This report by the World Heath Organization gives the most up-to-date stats on HIV in Ukraine, all on one page! It has some great, easy to read charts and graphs.
http://apps.who.int/globalatlas/predefinedReports/EFS2008/short/EFSCountryProfiles2008_UA.pdf
HIV Country Profile-- Russia This report by the World Heath Organization gives the most up-to-date stats on HIV in Russia, all on one page! It has some great, easy to read charts and graphs.
http://apps.who.int/globalatlas/predefinedReports/EFS2008/short/EFSCountryProfiles2008_RU.pdf
2009 AIDS Epidemic Global Report Every year, UNAIDS does a study on the global AIDS epidemic. This report includes the most up-to-date statistics on AIDS in Russia and Ukraine (pg. 48):
http://data.unaids.org/pub/Report/2009/JC1700_Epi_Update_2009_en.pdf
Loving Our Kids on Purpose "Here is a fresh look at the age-old role of parenting.Loving Our Kids on Purpose brings the principles of the Kingdom of God and revival into our strategy as parents. 2 Corinthians 3:17 tells us that Where the Spirit of the Lord is there is freedom. Most parenting approaches train children to learn to accept being controlled by well meaning parents and adults. Unfortunately, God is not going...
Ministries of Mercy: The call of the Jericho Road Why would someone risk his safety, destroy his schedule, and become dirty and bloody to help a needy person of another race and social class? And why would Jesus tell us "Go and do likewise"? Like the wounded man on the Jericho road, there are needy people in our path- the widow next door, the family strapped with medical bills, the homeless man outside our place of worship. God call us...
Our Adoption in Christ: What It Means for Us and for Orphans This book was written to equip churches theologically in the areas of orphan care and earthly adoption. We believe that robust theology produces robust action. So, our writing objective was to put the gospel at the center of the global orphan crisis. If the church is to be mobilized to care for 143 million orphaned and vulnerable children, then the gospel must be the main thing. Our prayer is that...
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In Bible times, God maintained a special provision for the less fortunate. As His people harvested their fields, they were instructed to always leave a portion of the crops for those in need.Today, God's heart continues to beat for the poor, the widows, and the fatherless. And as His children, our divine commission remains the same, a directive that's nothing less than the heart of the Christian...
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The Beyond Consequences Institute, LLC was created to educate and provide the resources for helping children with severe acting out behaviors. Many of these children have been previously diagnosed with such disorders as reactive attachment disorder, bipolar, oppositional defiant disorder, conduct disorder, depression, and the list goes on and on.
Most traditional techniques accepted amongst...
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Psychology of Orphans was written by Dr. Lyudmila Shipitsyna, Rector of the Institute of Special Education and Psychology Saint-Petersburg, as a resource book for students, researchers, academics and professionals. Those who work with orphans and families with special needs children affected by social and psychological problems will find Psychology of Orphans valuable.
Any potential adoptive...
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The adoption of a child is always a joyous moment in the life of a family. Some adoptions, though, present unique challenges. Welcoming these children into your family--and addressing their special needs--requires care, consideration, and compassion.
Written by two research psychologists specializing in adoption and attachment, The Connected Child will help you:
-- Build bonds of affection and...
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This module is the third of several modules being prepared by Crisis Care International to train caregivers to work with children who are in difficult or crisis situations. The diagram on the next page depicts the curriculum plan. The core module, Trauma and Crisis Care, is the foundational module and should be studied before the specialized units branching from the hub. The specialized modules...
Resources from the National Foundation for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children The National Foundation for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NFPCC) unites the leading Russian specialists with experience working with children at risk of being abandoned and families in crisis since the late 1980s. The NFPCC was born out of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, which began working in the child welfare field in 1996.
This website has many helpful...
United Nations Global Report on Human Trafficking Click the link below to read the UN's very informative 2009 report on global trafficking. This is a report that anyone who works against trafficking should read:
http://www.unodc.org/documents/human-trafficking/Executive_summary_english.pdf
One Million Arrows: Raising Your Children to Change the World "God has called His people to leave a legacy of godliness for the next generation. One Million Arrows picks up on that high calling and casts a God-sized vision for parents who long to see their children used by God in mighty ways...it will challenge you to raise your children as ambassadors for Christ rather than casualties of the culture-war." —Review by Dennis Rainey,...
Building a Bridge of H.O.P.E. Resource Guide This resource guide is an introduction to the world of adoption and orphan care ministry for both pastors and laypersons seeking to help move their church community to care for orphans. The booklet includes simple steps to provide a framework for this process. The enclosed DVD includes videos such as the Building a Bridge video for use at a worship service to raise interest in adoption in a...
Just Courage: God's Great Expedition for the Restless Christian "Gary Haugen explores what it means to really care about those who suffer--and it isn't necessarily the path we might expect. We tend to think of soup kitchens and painting buildings as ways to express our compassion for those in need, but Gary makes a convincing argument that fighting for justice on behalf of the poor is a powerful, effective way to make a long-term difference in their...
This Immoral Trade: Slavery in the 21st Century Based on her compelling and convincing report to the British House of Lords, this high-profile advocate (Baroness Cox) for the world's poorest victims offers an urgent call to action for Christians worldwide.
For more info or to order, click here: http://www.amazon.com/This-Immoral-Trade-Slavery-Century/dp/0825461316/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267559647&sr=8-1
How to Support a Child Who Has Been Abused This pamphlet gives step by step advice for responding to a child when they've told you about abuse in their life:
http://www.ccpas.co.uk/Documents/Help%20-%20help%20abused.pdf
Trafficking Prayer Guide Use this prayer diary over a period of three weeks to focus your prayers on the issue of trafficking, praying for the victims of trafficking and for change around the world. You could use some of the entries in church services or house groups to inform people and encourage them to pray about the issue.
Click here to view this prayer guide: http://www.stopthetraffik.org/downloads/prayer_diary.pdf
Not for Sale: Raising Awareness, Ending Exploitation This is a must read for all those seeking to understand the issues surrounding sexual exploitation and abuse in our society today - the human cost of prostitution and the scourge of trafficking for sexual exploitation exposed to our senses as never before.
Commissioned by CHASTE this book drives home a message for our times. Using a wide range of literary styles and modes of communication from...
Looking at Ourselves to Help our Children Heal Watch as Dr. Karyn Purvis explains the importance of parents being willing to look at their own histories as well as their expectations as they seek to connect with their children.
Looking at Ourselves to Help Our Children Heal from Tapestry on Vimeo.
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Parenting Strategies That Connect Watch as Dr. Purvis provides practical insight to parents about how they can effectively correct their children while still empowering and connecting with them.
Parenting Strategies That Connect from Tapestry on Vimeo.
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Stop the Traffik Human trafficking is a fraught and hotly debated information minefield—sometimes just getting to grips with the basics and the sheer scale of the problem can be over-whelming.
STOP THE TRAFFIK’s new book is designed to help youngsters to students to teachers to professionals—navigate this minefield and engage with this global issue in a practical and useful way. Demonstrated...
Trafficking and Women's Rights "Based on extensive research and collaboration across Europe, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of burning issues in the debate on trafficking in women. Practitioners, academics and policy-makers contribute up-to-date information and policy recommendations. The book is an invaluable contribution providing an innovative multidisciplinary approach to trafficking, including chapters on...
Affirming Persons--Saving Lives Have you been looking for an AIDS curriculum that deals forthrightly with the many complex issues that must be addressed to save lives? Look no further!
Affirming Persons-Saving Lives responds to the real concerns of real people facing the dangers of HIV transmission and AIDS. Designed for multi-cultural Christian education settings, this groundbreaking resource also can be adapted for use by...
Castaway Kid "Before you sit down to read Castaway Kid by Rob Mitchell, I would suggest that you obtain a box of tissues. This compelling story grabs from the first page and helps you to understand what real loneliness and rejection feel like. More importantly it puts into perspective the most important things in life, such as a relationship with God. This is a splendid example of how the hand of God can...
Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew "As both an adoptee and president of Jewel Among Jewels Adoption Network, author Sherrie Eldridge brings an original approach to the topic of adoption. In an attempt to inform adoptive parents of the unique issues adoptees face, she discusses adoptee anger, mourning, and shame and adoption acknowledgment while using case studies to illustrate how parents can better relate to their adopted...
Sharing God's Heart for Orphans with your Kids Are you looking for helpful tools in sharing with your kids about God's heart for orphans? Then look no further! This site has some great resources:
http://www.hopefororphanskids.org/hfokids/index.html
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The Local Church and Foster Care Video This video by Cornerstone Church (where Francis Chan pastors) describes the need for the church to care for the modern day orphans. We, as followers of Jesus Christ, need to be concerned with those marginalized and forgotten by the rest of society.
Mark Richt’s Adoption Story Watch this video where UGA Coach Mark Richt and his wife talk about their story of adoption and how it has changed their lives.
New HIV Adoption Visa Laws This year the Obama administration put into effect a new law which will waive the former law which required HIV positive adoptees to receive a special visa. HIV positive orphans will now be able to be processed under the same procedure as orphans without HIV.
For more info on this new legislation, click here: http://chrisitianallianceblog.org/?p=236
Miracle in Franklin Watch this video which tells the amazing true story of one family's journey to adoption.
Ukraine Makes Progress in Placing Children in Homes This article shares about Ukraine's successful push for national adoption and fostercare. Learn more about the progress being made in this Eastern European country:
http://www.kyivpost.com/news/nation/detail/51172
Wrapping Around Adoptive Families How to Provide Support to Those Called to Adopt:
"There are many different ways to minister to God's orphan children and to the adoptive families that have welcomed these children home. This booklet from Focus on the Family makes it clear that struggling adoptive families need their church families to support them during times of trials. While the suggestions in this booklet may not apply to...
Haiti's Orphan Crisis Follow the link below to read two articles from Together for Adoption about Haiti's Orphan Crisis. Though these articles are geared towards Haiti, they have themes that are applicable to orphancare around the world.
http://www.togetherforadoption.org/?p=5761
Adoption is for a Lifetime Join author Nancy McCullough as she shares her fascinating story of how God orchestrated her adoption from Hong Kong. She relates her struggles related to the unknown reason for abandonment, which resulted in a wounded spirit and the inability to bond with her adoptive mother. God blessed her with wonderful parents, a loving husband, and two adopted girls from China. Take a...
Guide for Parenting Children with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Click the link below to read this helpful tip sheet for parents with adoptive or foster children who have Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder.
http://www.wifostercareandadoption.org/library/966/fasd.pdf
Prayer Guide Based on Psalms Though this prayer guide is specifically geared towards the January earthquake in Haiti, it is also applicable for helping to guide prayer for those in need around the world.
http://ow.ly/13VUH
Handbook on Thriving as an Adoptive Family Real-Life Solutions to Common Challenges
"Adoption is a high calling from God, and the Christian home is primary soil for planting seeds of faith. But how will post-adoption challenges affect this growth? Most agencies do not prepare you for unexpected challenges like an adopted child fighting with his new siblings, not wanting to be touched or showing signs of reactive attachment disorder...
The Connecting Link In The Connecting Link: What Parents Need to Bring Healing to Their Children, delivered at the 2009 Tapestry Adoption & Foster Care Conference, Dr. Purvis provides parents with a better understanding of why children from hard places use distancing strategies, and how they can help their children replace those strategies by giving them voice, empowering them to make choices and helping them...
Focusing on the Whole Child Watch as Dr. Karyn Purvis talks about the need for parents to focus on every aspect of their child’s wellbeing in order to help them heal and overcome their challenges.
Focusing on the Whole Child from Tapestry on Vimeo.
Children from Hard Places Watch as Dr. Karyn Purvis outlines the common characteristics of children from hard places and offers insight into what these children need most to help them heal and become whole:
Children from Hard Places from Tapestry on Vimeo.
The All Inclusive Handbook To Adopting A Child "This all-inclusive guide will take you throughout the entire adoption process, from beginning to the end. This book will give you information significant for helping you decide if adoption is right for you, how to prepare for it, how to speed up the adoption process, what to expect during the adoption process, how to handle drawbacks you might encounter, and how to handle sensitive...
Transformation Station Curriculum Box Set from Metro Ministries Use the one tool that has years of experience and long-term credibility behind it. Transformation Station has been proven effective both domestically and internationally, connecting with children from diverse background and cultures.
As a young man in ministry, Pastor Bill Wilson struggled to find a way to connect to children. This led him to develop his own curriculum. As a pioneer on...
While We Wait: Spiritual & Practical Advice for Those Trying to Adopt "Adoption is a beautiful event, and building a family through adoption is a loving and selfless act. But the decision to adopt and the many stages that follow are often pock-marked with tears, distress, anger, and disappointment. While We Wait, written by a mother while she struggled through the process herself, is a hope-filled collection of reflections on the everyday, practical aspects of...
Engaging the Church for Disabilities Ministry Join Charlie Chastain and Michael Norton as they share about the state of the disabled population in Russia and Eastern Europe. The disabled population of Eastern Europe is one of the most overlooked people groups struggling to find its way within post-Soviet society. Beyond their physical and mental impairments, the disabled of Eastern Europe also struggle to overcome discrimination due to...
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Wisdom and Revelation: Keys to Hope and Healing Join Jenni Means as she shares keys to bringing hope and healing to adopted children. Great session for English speakers to watch, since it is in both English and Russian. This session was filmed at the 2009 Eastern European Summit on Orphans and the Church.
You can watch the video right on this page, but if you would like to use it in your church or ministry, you can also download...
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When Helping Hurts - Book and Webinar Churches and individual Christians typically have faulty assumptions about the causes of poverty, resulting in strategies that do considerable harm to poor people as well as to themselves. When Helping Hurts is a book by Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert of the Chalmers Center for Economic Development that directly addresses these assumptions.
The book provides foundational concepts and clear...
Not Your Everyday Conversation: Talking With Children About the Difficult Realities of Adoption and Foster Care Along with the joys and blessings of adoption and foster care come some difficult and often painful realities – issues such as grief, loss, abandonment, past trauma and the need for forgiveness, just to name a few. It is important for adoptive and foster parents to be prepared to help their children navigate these emotional and complex issues, and to make sense of their own personal...
What Became of Romania's Neglected Orphans? A BBC investigation has uncovered appalling conditions and abuse in adult institutions in Romania, 20 years after the fall of Nicolai Ceausescu exposed conditions in the country's orphanages.
Click here to watch the video news report: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8425001.stm
Orphan Outreach Summer Internship Need an internship? Orphan ministry needs you!
There are millions of orphans around the world. James 1 says pure religion is taking care of the widows and orphans. This summer you can help orphans through an Orphan Outreach internship. Communications Director Tiffany Taylor says, "We have internships for college-age students and also young adults who are really interested in orphan ministry....
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International Adoption: The Human Rights Position Great paper on UNICEF & International Adoption from Dr. Elizabeth Bartholet, Harvard Law Professor. Read her abstract here, or click the link below to read her entire paper.
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International adoption is under siege, with the number of children placed dropping each of the last several years, and many countries imposing severe new restrictions. Key forces mounting the attack...
40 Day Prayer Guide for Orphan Care Check out this GREAT 40 day prayer guide for orphan care. Will you commit to praying with us for the next 40 days?
Click here to download the prayer guide: http://www.pearpod.com/oc/downloads/40DaysofPrayer.pdf
Orphanage in Eastern Europe Needs Volunteers The Bila Tserkva orphanage for children with special needs is looking for volunteers in the Spring and Summer months to play with the children. Five are confirmed HIV positive and several others are awaiting diagnosis. There are 50 children aged 0-5. It is located 90 minutes outside of Kiev.
Ukraine Medical Outreach will be assisting the staff in providing better care for the children. ...
Creating a Healthy Adoption Culture in Your Church Watch this video where Dr. Purvis shares what it takes to create a healthy adoption culture in your local church:
http://vimeo.com/7528139
Basic Orphan Statistics for Russia
According to data from the Health and Social Development Ministry, more than 730,000 children in Russia either have no parents or have been abandoned by their parents. Of this number about 200,000 of them live in orphanages and internats.
In 2007, 123,000 new orphans were registered by the state with 120,000 of them being placed with extended family members, adopted or placed in...
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"The Blind Side" depicts the true story of Michael Oher, a homeless African-American youngster from a broken home, taken in by the Touhys, a well-to-do white family who help him fulfill his potential. At the same time, Oher's presence in the Touhys' lives leads them to some insightful self-discoveries of their own.
Living in his new environment, the teen faces a completely different set...
How to Start an Adoption Fund in Your Church Rate:
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While many families have room in their hearts and homes for a child, they all too often become discouraged and do not answer the call to adopt due to monetary concerns. Though we have assisted hundreds of families with financial grants and will continue to do so, the need for grants far surpasses any one organization’s ability to provide. We cannot do this alone and implore you to begin a...
Ten Ways Every Christian Can Care for Orphans Rate:
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143 million orphans and waiting children. Yes, it's a BIG number. And it can be difficult to know how one person can make a dent in a reality so daunting. However, one Christian -- every Christian -- can make a difference. There are many things believers can do on behalf of the orphan and waiting child. This full color brochure from FamilyLife's Hope for Orphans...
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The East-West Church & Ministry Report is edited and published quarterly by Dr. Mark Elliott. This report seeks to encourage Western Christian ministry in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union that is effective, culturally sensitive, and cooperative. It also serves as a forum for the exploration of a variety of issues relating to...
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"The Gift of Adoption" is a free 10 minute video which encourages and inspires those considering international adoption. To view the video, go to http://ob.org/orphanspromise/ and then click the "Gift of Adoption video" link on the lefthand side of the page.
This video is available in Russian as well. For more information on how to order a copy of this video in...
| Type: Video/DVD | | Related Organization: Mission Emmanuel (CBN Ukraine) |
A Helper to the Fatherless: Orphan Summit Tackles Orphans and Adoption Issue Even on paper the statistics look appalling-- 103,000 orphans in Ukraine, 1,200 babies are abandoned at birth and left in maternity homes and 6,000-6,500 parental rights cases make their way to court each year.
Between the ages of 16-18, orphans in Ukraine graduate from state-run orphanages. Lacking the ability to find employment or to keep a job, these teenagers often live on the...
Resource Development Manager Needed We are wishing to expand the borders of our current ministries in order to improve the quantity and quality of the help offered to the homeless children of Vladivostok. The long term vision of Living Hope is to set up and manage a 24-Hour Shelter and Rehabilitation Youth Centre.
We understand the necessity of raising awareness so as to raise funds for this shelter project. The need is real, the...
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Adopting the Hurt Child "Adopting the Hurt Child" by Gregory Kack and Regina Kupeckyaddresses the frustration, heartache, and hope surrounding the adoption of special-needs children. You will find value in the easy reading style, practical parenting strategies, and refreshing insights to the challenges you face. Revised and updated, this practical resource includes information on foreign adoptions.
To...
Adoption and Foster Care Resources in Russian Rate:
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This is a list of over 15 Russian resources on adoption and foster care, that are very useful for Russian-speaking believers ministering to orphans:
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Comprehensive Information about Adoption, Foster Care, and Gaurdianship
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God's Heart for the Orphan...and Me! Hope for Orphans new childrens' curriculum "God's Heart for the Orphan...and Me!" is an exciting, interactive children's Bible study designed to expose the children at church and home to God's passion for orphans and waiting children. The material engages children to discuss what God calls His followers to do for orphans. It also offers tools to enable kids to take action and...
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Welcome Home: Eight Steps to Adoption Rate:
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When it comes to making a decision about adoption, many people get stuck between thinking and doing. Fears, uncertainties, and doubts keep people from being able to make an informed adoption decision. That is why Hope For Orphans created this guide. They provide easy-to-use adoption information from a Christian perspective in this beautiful full-color 30-page guide that will equip you to navigate...
| Type: Booklet | | Related Organization: Hope for Orphans |
If You Were Mine (DVD Workshop) Hope for Orphans® If You Were Mine DVD workshop has helped thousands of families nationwide, inviting them to investigate adoption from a biblical and practical perspective. Now available as a video workshop, If You Were Mine is perfect for small groups, as a one-day event, or for individual families, encouraging them toward wise, loving decisions and healthy expectations about...
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If You Were Mine (Workbook) Hope for Orphans®, If You Were Mine Workshop has encouraged thousands of families nationwide to investigate adoption from a biblical and practical perspective.
This workbook accompanies the If you were Mine Workshop. It will help you make wise, loving decisions and have healthy expectations about adoption.
This comprehensive resource explores the following topics:
God's heart for...
| Type: Book | | Related Organization: Hope for Orphans |
HomeBuilders: Considering Adoption & Directory of Helpful Resources and Organizations Purchase HomeBuilders: Considering Adoption (Study Guide) and receive free Hope for Orphans Directory of Helpful Resources and Organizations (click here to purchase: http://www.shopfamilylife.com/hmb-considering-adoption-study---h4o-directory-so.html)
HomeBuilders: Considering Adoption (Study Guide)
Have you ever wondered if adoption is what God wants for your family? If so, this five-week...
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The Cry of the Orphan What is the church going to do about the world's 143 million orphans? This broadcast features speakers Kay Warren, Dennis Rainey, Paul Pennington, Benedict and Kathleen Schwartz, and Bob Coy. Hear their passionate pleas for action on the issue of suffering orphans, their call to Christians for justice, and their biblical model of how compassionate activism works—straight from the...
NavPress Adoption Book Kit According to recent research, over one-third of Americans have considered adopting. NavPress has put together a comprehensive resource kit of books that offer heartfelt encouragement, practical advice, and needed resources to those who may adopt.
This kit includes one of each title:
Questions Adoptees Are Asking
Parenting Adopted Adolescents
Parenting the Hurt Child Revised...
House Parents Needed in Vladivostok Hope For Life Home is looking for a Russian-speaking couple to be house parents in a home in Vladivostok for 8 orphan children. The house is set up to hold 8 kids and a set of house parents in the upstairs and 8 kids and a set of house parents in the downstairs. The upstairs has house parents and 7 kids. They are currently remodeling the downstairs and praying for a set of house...
Parenting Adopted Adolescents Adoptive parent, social worker, author, and speaker Dr. Gregory C. Keck offers support, new ideas, and suggestions on managing difficult family situations specific to adolescents, especially adopted adolescents. You will find humor and relief as you realize your role in your child’s journey. Also appropriate for teachers, youth pastors, and mental health professionals.
To purchase this...
The Whole Life Adoption Book Read this book for insights into every aspect of adoption, from vital issues to introductory questions, including updated information on the adoption process, both in the U.S. and internationally; an in-depth look at the developmental stages of adoption for families and children; the impact of adoption on birth children in the family; and practical parenting suggestions to handle the unique needs...
Russia's Growing HIV Epidemic The HIV epidemic in Russia is increasing more rapidly than in any other country in Europe. Read this article to learn the history of HIV in Russia, as well as the explanation for it's rapid growth.
"The terms HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) and AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome), typically first call to mind Africa. But increasingly the public is coming to realize that HIV...
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: Mission Specialties, Inc. (MSi) |
A Dress for Anna: the Story of the Redemption of the Life a Ukrainian Orphan "Every little girl loves a pretty new dress, and my daughter, Anna, was no exception. Trembling with emotion, she ripped open the department store bag that contained her new dress, tights, shoes and undergarments. Then, she pulled out the lavender floral print dress, caressing the silk lining and rubbing her face in the soft fabric.
“Platya,” She...
The Great Gilly Hopkins This book by Katherina Paterson tells the story of Gilly Hopkins, a determined-to-be-unpleasant 11-year-old foster kid who the reader can't help but like by the end. Gilly has been in the foster system all her life, and she dreams of getting back to her (as she imagines) wonderful mother. (The mother makes these longings worse by writing the occasional letter.) Gilly is all the more...
When Love Is Not Enough: A Guide to Parenting Children with Reactive Attachment Disorder Newly updated and expanded, this book is power packed with parenting techniques for guiding challenging children back on track! Part I includes understanding Reactive Attachment Disorder, it's causes and symptoms. Part II has the solutions! Praised by parents throughout the world as saving their sanity and their families. Used by many agencies and professionals to train parents to help emotionally...
When a Stranger Calls You Mom This book offers a child development and relationship perspective on why traumatized children think, feel, and act the way they do. It is a guide for foster/adoptive parents and professionals living and working with traumatized children.
Some reviews on this book:
"This book is a lifesaver!! We adopted a boy from Russia three years ago and have had attachment issues from the beginning. Been...
Building the Bonds of Attachment: Awakening Love in Deeply Troubled Children Katie, an abused, neglected, and poorly attached child, spent the first years of her life with parents who cared little about her. As a result she is an angry, unhappy, and manipulative kid. Is there any hope for her to grow up and become a healthy and happy adult? In BUILDING THE BONDS OF ATTACHMENT Dr. Daniel Hughes follows Katie through her life with abusive birth parents and many foster homes,...
Treating Attachment Disorders: From Theory to Therapy "This book couldn't be more timely. After three decades of developmental research establishing the importance of attachment processes in emotional regulation and stress responsiveness, therapists of many orientations are pondering how to apply these findings in the treatment of psychiatric disorders. Previous books relating attachment theory to clinical concerns have been heavily...
AIDS Experts Say Russia Needs New HIV Strategy By DOUGLAS BIRCH (AP)
MOSCOW — AIDS experts urged Russian officials on Wednesday to scrap their abstinence-based strategy for curbing the spread of HIV, saying the country's fast-growing epidemic could be entering a dangerous new phase.
AIDS specialists meeting here urged Russia to adopt successful strategies such as needle exchange programs and heroin substitutes such as methadone for...
Adoption Grants and Loans Adoption is our ultimate goal in caring for orphan children as it enables them to become a part of God's perfect plan…a family. While many Christian couples have the desire and resources to care for a child, initial costs keep many from following God's call to adopt.
Lifesong Legacy Fund
Interest Free Loans
The Lifesong Legacy Fund offers interest free loans to help couples overcome the...
Aggressive-Defiant Child: a tutorial for Teachers and Foster Parents Do parents, or teachers always like their child’s behaviour? Few kids are the model of perfection ( I haven’t met any yet, but there may be one or two!) and kids do things that disappoint or displease us. Sometimes they can behave in ways that really annoy us; the angry, defiant child is a good example. How do you change an angry, aggressive child into a cooperative child?
Firstly,...
Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today's Parents
Every year increasingly larger proportions of both internationally and domestically adopted children are arriving in their families not as newborns a few hours or days old, but at several weeks or several months or even several years of age. They arrive in loving, idealistic, but often ill-prepared families who may or may not have received all of the background information they need.
The...
Being Adopted: The Lifelong Search for Self In BEING ADOPTED: THE LIFELONG SEARCH FOR SELF, author David Brodzinsky illustrates common developmental pathways of adoptees as they occur throughout the life span. It probes the complex issues that are involved in this ongoing life process. Five themes run throughout this book: the experience of adoptees; developmental perspectives; normality; search for self; and sense of loss.
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Guest Apartments in Moscow The link below provides a list with detailed descriptions of various guest apartments available in Moscow, many of which belong to various Christian ministries.
Christian Counselor Training in Ukraine
Kiev Family and Counselor Training Team is launching a new initiative – a distance education program. With so many great changes in the former Soviet Union in the last 20 years, people suffer from enormous amounts of stress. People suffer from alcoholism, drug addiction, marriage problems, depression and anxiety.
Christian counselors in this part of the world play a very...
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Child Abuse in Russia Thousands of Russian children die each year at the hands of their own parents
April 9, 2009
In January 2009 under a bridge outside of Moscow, the body of three-year-old Daniel Boiko was found. The boy was first starved, and then thrown alive into the river with a car battery tied to his neck. The child was killed by his foster parents. These same parents were accused of the...
Russian Bibles - Free! East European Harvest supplies Russian bibles free of charge to missionaries, pastors, or anyone that needs them. The Bibles can be shipped overseas for about $0.50 to $1 a piece and within the U.S. for a third of that. They are free, but they can only be shipped if there are funds available, so donations are greatly appreciated.
EEH is always looking for avenues to distrubute the New...
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Eastern European Summit for Children at Risk challenges Christians to step out of their comfort zones -- ANS News Story Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Eastern European Summit for Children at Risk challenges Christians to step out of their comfort zones
By Peter Wooding
Special to ASSIST News Service
DONETSK, UKRAINE (ANS) -- With 160 delegates gathered for the Eastern European Summit on Orphans and the Church March 17-19, Mikhail Kozitsky an NGO of Christian Foster Families in St Petersburg, Russia...
List of Books on Adoption and Foster Care This site offers a good list of books on adoption, attachment issues, parenting adopted children, and children development.
Site on At-Risk Youth At-Risk.org has been compiled as a resource for parents and the general public in search of information about at-risk youth. This site will present you with information and articles about helping at-risk youth. The Works Cited page of this site will reference any at-risk youth resources that were used to compile the content for this site.
Whats Being...
Is God Really My Father? Have you ever wondered why you were alive? What is the purpose of life anyway? Here you will learn that God has always loved you. He has real peace, hope, happiness and heaven ready for you if you really want them. A powerful outreach/evangelism tool, illustrated in full color. All of that along with lovely color illustrations with side-by-side text columns.
Available in Russian...
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Older Child Adoption Training Older Child Adoption Training Program
Adopting a child over the age of three is an incredible blessing to the child, living birth relatives and the adoptive family. But it’s often not easy to assimilate a child with life experiences into family life. Both children and adoptive families can feel overwhelmed with all the adjustments that are required.
The Lord has a...
Attach-- Association for Treatment and Training in the Attachment of Children Many children throughout the world do not benefit from adequate parenting during their early years. Their foundation for healthy development is damaged so they have difficulty in forming loving, lasting, intimate relationships. This condition, known as attachment disorder, can be triggered by abuse, neglect, abandonment, separation from birth parents, birth trauma, maternal depression, chronic...
Joint Council on Children's Services The Joint Council works to ensure that orphaned and vulnerable children can live, grow, and flourish in a family. Advocating for high standards, ethical practices, and child-centric policies, Joint Council educates governments, professionals and families all with a goal of finding a safe, permanent, and loving family for every child.
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Adoption Learning Partners Adoption Learning Partners provides the highest quality online adoption education. Our course list includes comprehensive training for parents preparing for an international adoption. The following online courses meet Hague training requirements for international adoption:
The Journey of Attachment
Attachment is an essential component of any healthy, happy family. Adoption, however, may...
Attachment Disorder Website We offer information on adoption / attachment and bonding issues, and Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) to families and professionals. We are also the official home of Families by Design providing educational materials and seminars.
The goal of this site is to provide help for each wounded child with attachment disorder, PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), ODD (Oppositional Defiant Disorder)...
Hope Exists: Exploring Abuse and Its Effects: A Handbook for Young People If you are interested please contact me through the contact information below and I will be able to provide you ahead of time with details as of how we can make this resource available to you.
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Ukrainian NGO Seeks Information A Ukrainian NGO, partnered with a UK-based Christian charity, is seeking advice on expanding their ministry. They would like to set up a shelter for street children where they plan to run a feeding programme, a day centre, a night shelter, rehabilitation programmes for those involved in substance abuse and counselling and reconciliation programmes for the families. Any help...
Mission Emmanuel (CBN Kiev) Mission Emmanuel is the CBN World Reach office located in Kiev Ukraine. A special orphan focuses project of Mission Emmanuel is The Gift of Adoption. Some of the focuses of The Gift of Adoption include adoption promotion, life skills training for orphan grads, summer camps for orphans and producing short films to promote adoption and work with orphans. Please contact us directly...
| Type: Curriculum | | Related Organization: Mission Emmanuel (CBN Ukraine) |
The Middle Mom: How to Grow Your Heart by Giving It Away ...a foster mom's journey Every foster parent knows how hard, yet rewarding, it can be to care for a child with a difficult past and an uncertain future. Christie Erwin has been a mom, in the middle, for countless children over nearly two decades. In this poignant and insightful book, she honestly shares the reality of making yourself vulnerable to the pain and indescribable delight of giving your heart away to...
| Type: Book | | Related Organization: Campus Crusade for Christ |
Juvenile Institution Material We have Bible study discussion sheets available in English and in Russian. These utilize a topical, discussion format that has been effectively used with kids in detention centers, prisons, orphanages and in aftercare situations in several countries. We also have discipleship booklets (English only for now) and a drug and alcohol recovery curriculum in English designed for the...
| Type: Curriculum | | Related Organization: Straight Ahead Ministries, Inc. |
Administrative Assistant for Universal Aid for Children Ukraine Administrative assistant for Universal Aid for Children Ukraine, an international non-profit humanitarian reach out program
· fund raising campaigns
· clerical work
· net working with sponsors
· light accounting
· excellent computer skills are a must
· multiple languages spoken a plus
· part-time 3 days a week open to discussion....
| Type: Ministry Position | | Related Organization: Universal Aid for Children |
"Staying Safe" Curriculum in Russian Staying Safe is a training curriculum designed to help leaders equip small groups of children (ages 6-14) to stay safe from potential sexual abuse and sexual assault, with lessons on Self Esteem, Personal Safety, Saying No!, and Being Safe. It was written to be used in orphanages or shelters for street children, but can be used in other settings for foster families or families in...
| Type: Training | | Related Organization: Arts for Life International Inc. |
Recommended Mission News Subscriptions Want to keep up with what's going on in world missions? Here are ten of the top mission news sources that are recommended by Missions Catalyst:
Missions Catalyst News Briefs - The news digest from Missions Catalyst; focused on missions-related stories. Stories are all previously published material from a variety of sources. Comes out twice a month. Web and email, no RSS...
HIV/AIDS Resources from Samaritan's Purse Resources for Teaching Youth
Youth are the future teachers, medical professionals, and business leaders of the world. And in many developing countries, they are also the most at risk of HIV infection. Samaritan’s Purse focuses on mobilizing, equipping, and training (MET) Christian leaders to fight the epidemic within their communities. The resources described below are used for part one...
| Type: Book | | Related Organization: Samaritan’s Purse |
In a Fairy-Tale Village, Russian Orphans Thrive Kitezh is an experimental orphan community about 190 miles southwest of Moscow that combines features of an orphanage with those of foster care. With its colorful wooden cottages, Kitezh appears as distant from the cruelty of the children’s frequently alcoholic and abusive parents as it is from the stale, often crowded government institutions where many Russian orphans still live.
Read the...
Centre for Children with Disabilities Opens in St Petersburg Families are benefiting from a new service in St Petersburg which is providing care for children with disabilities for up to three hours a day. The Day Care Centre which has just opened its doors in St Petersburg provides a safe and welcoming place for children, and allows parents to take care of daily chores with the knowledge that their child is being well looked after.
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: EveryChild |
Children and Young People Living or Working on the Streets: The Missing Face of the HIV Epidemic in Ukraine In the last five years several small-scale surveys were conducted of the target group [children and young people living or working on the streets] in Kyiv, Kharkiv and other cities of Ukraine, as well as an analysis of the policies relating to this target group, and in 2003 the MoFYS [Ministry of Family, Youth and Sport of Ukraine] published a national report on 'homeless and neglected...
Just Courage: God's Great Expedition for the Restless Christian In Just Courage: God's Great Expedition for the Restless Christian, International Justice Mission President Gary Haugen leads us on a journey to freedom from the triviality and fear that can stifle our lives. Set against the frontlines of today's battle against slavery and injustice, Haugen shows how common people are called to uncommon courage - and how we, too, can be a part of God's...
Restoring Children of the Streets This workbook manual developed by Action International Philippines is for assisting Christians in ministering the gospel and compassionate care for God's glory, especially to the 160 million street children and 143 million orphans of the world and other children at risk.The manual (valued at $10) has been distributed to ministries and used worldwide and is available to you free of charge to use...
| Type: Book | | Related Organization: Action International Ministries |
The Italian "The Italian" is a compelling slice-of-life drama that has a great deal to say not only about the appalling conditions faced by orphans in Russia today, but about the determination of the human spirit and the need for love that exists at the center of every human heart. "The Italian" is a film tuned to the realities of life in a harsh environment, where cruel and violent deeds...
Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children: Youth Involved in Prostitution, Pornography & Sex Trafficking Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children is a booklet by Youth Advocate Program International which gives an overview of the commercial sexual exploitation of children and efforts to prevent it. Around the world hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of children are involved in the sex trade. This third booklet in a series on international youth issues focuses on these children. It...
Church Orphans Ministry Starter Pack Thinking about setting up an adoption or orphans ministry in your church but unsure where to start? This kit contains everything you need to launch a Church Orphans Ministry and furnish your church's resource library with excellent biblical and practical resources on adoption and orphan care.The Starter Pack includes the following:
Adopting the Hurt Child: Hardback Book
Fields of the...
Children in Crisis - Module 2: Street Children Curriculum & Module Developer: Phyllis Kilbourn, Ph.D. This module is a part of the Children in Crisis training series developed by Phyllis Kilburn. The material in this 18-lesson module (202 pages) is designed to train those working, or desiring to work, with street children. A foundational course, it helps participants understand who street children are and why they are on the streets. It...
| Type: Book | | Related Organization: Crisis Care Training International |
Christian Radio in Russian This Christian radio station, put on by New Life Radio, offers music in Russian and English.
The Christian's Response to the Fatherless When you hear of the millions of orphans worldwide, does it seem overwhelming? In this message, Dennis and Barbara Rainey extend God’s invitation to every Christian to care for these precious children in a variety of ways. Find out how you can serve the orphan – from prayer and mission trips to foster care and adoption. No matter how God is calling you to get involved, you can be...
Reaching Children in Need This book is valuable reading for anyone concerned about children at risk worldwide. In Reaching Children in Need, the founder and International Director of Viva Network, Patrick McDonald, tells the story of how Viva Network began. He introduces the issues facing children at risk, the Christian response to these huge challenges, and the vision for networking to enhance and mobilize action for...
| Type: Book | | Related Organization: Viva Network |
Launching an Orphans Ministry in Your Church: Paperback w/ DVD Do you ever wish your church could have a ministry to orphans, but you don’t know how to start? With this easy step-by-step guide, you are given the principles and practical tools needed to launch an effective church orphans ministry. This guide includes a vision-casting DVD hosted by FamilyLife President, Dennis Rainey that will introduce you and your church’s leaders to existing...
Terrify No More In Terrify No More, Gary Haugen, president of the Christian humanitarian organization International Justice Mission, tells the account of IJM's efforts to rescue young girls from forced prostitution in Svay Pak, Cambodia. Written with the aid of communications consultant Hunter, the story tells of girls sold into sex slavery by their families or tricked into it by the promise of legitimate work....
Dateable: Are You? Are They? Passion. It's the fuel for success, for dreams, for life. But too many teens focus their energy and passion on the wrong thing-the wrong person. Dateable pulls no punches in telling teens the truth about dating while also directing their passion toward a greater purpose in life. Teen relationships seldom last, the authors point out, so why should teens invest so much of themselves emotionally,...
Dangerous Surrender Surrender. It is not an inviting concept, is it? Yielding. Relinquishing. Our very nature resists these concepts.Intimacy with God. Now that is far more appealing. Don’t we all long for a deeper personal experience of God’s presence? In her book, Dangerous Surrender, Kay Warren takes us on a startling adventure, across the globe and over the backyard fence, bringing us face to...
The Five Love Languages of Children Loving our children isn't always enough. Learning to speak their love language communicates your love in ways they'll understand right from the start. Unconditional love is something all children can understand. Gary Chapman's book, The Five Love Languages of Children can help you make your child feel secure, loved and more willing and open to interact with you and your family.
This resource can...
Not for Sale Human trafficking generates $31 billion annually and enslaves 27 million people around the globe, half of them children under the age of eighteen. In his book, Not for Sale: The Return of the Global Slave Trade, award-winning journalist David Batstone profiles the new generation of abolitionists who are leading the struggle to end this appalling epidemic. ...Not for Sale is a campaign of...
Ways the Faith Community Can Begin to Address HIV/AIDS The Children's AIDS Fund (CAF) believes there are two main areas of involvement for the faith community in the HIV/AIDS epidemic: education and outreach. Education programs can provide needed information, which will both help prevent the spread of HIV disease and foster an understanding of the epidemic and its effects, which will lay the groundwork for compassionate outreach.
Children Demand a Verdict Children need clear and direct answers to their questions about God, the Bible, sin, death, etc. Directed to children ages 7-11 this question and answer book by Josh McDowell tackles 77 tough issues with clarity and relevance, questions such as: Why did God make people? How do we know Jesus was God? How could God write a book? Is the Bible always right? Are parts of the Bible make believe? Why did...
AIDS and You: A Christian Response to AIDS AIDS and You, by Patrick Dixon, was originally published in 1989, as a shorter version his book, The Truth about AIDS, to encourage a practical compassionate response to AIDS by churches of every denomination, focused on community care and prevention. It has been revised and updated at the request of people from all over the world, who have asked for a short "action" book about...
| Type: Book | | Related Organization: ACET Russia |
The Skeptic's Guide to the Global AIDS Crisis AIDS is the biggest public health problem the world has ever faced. Yet with all the available information, many of us know little about it. There are thousands of books, websites, and professional documents about AIDS, but it takes time to search them to find the simple facts and information that dispel the myths about this pandemic. Motivated by the obvious need for a manageable tool, Dale...
USAID Project Profiles: Children Affected by HIV/AIDS No generation is spared the catastrophic consequences of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. From newborn babies of HIV-positive mothers to elderly caregivers, the disease does not discriminate. One of the most tragic consequences is the toll on children. In 2003, more than 15 million children under age 18 had lost one or both parents to AIDS. Along with grief and abandonment, children in affected...
The Hope Factor: Engaging the Church in the HIV/AIDS Crisis The enormity of the global AIDS pandemic threatens to overwhelm us. More than 3 million people died of AIDS last year—about 8,000 per day—and another 5 million were infected with the pernicious HIV virus. And the numbers are growing.So what role do we, the Church play in this growing crisis? The church must continue to give hope to the hopeless—those languishing alone. We must...
Russia: Mothers With HIV and Their Children Face Stigma and Discrimination As Russia's HIV/AIDS epidemic spreads, thousands of HIV-positive mothers and their children face pervasive discrimination and abuse, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
"Russian law protects all HIV-positive people from discrimination, but the government has turned a blind eye to the very real discrimination these women and their children face. The stigma of HIV/AIDS is with...
Responding More Effectively to HIV and AIDS This guide encourages communities and churches to respond to HIV and AIDS by challenging unhelpful attitudes and practices, providing information regarding infection, HIV tests, medicinal drugs and supporting adults, children and carers affected by HIV and AIDS.This resource can be viewed here or downloaded as a pdf here.
Red Letters: Living a Faith that Bleeds In many Bibles, Christ's words are set apart with a red font. It should be obvious, but this distinction helps remind us that when God becomes Man and that Man speaks it's probably something we cannot afford to miss.So why doesn't the church take these "red letters" to heart? Why aren't we doing more to be Christ's hands and feet to the poor, the disenfranchised, the weary, the ill, the...
| Type: Book | | Related Organization: Children's HopeChest |
Life Doesn’t Wait: Romania’s Failure to Protect and Support Children and Youth Living with HIV "More than 7,200 Romanian children and youth between age fifteen and nineteen are living with HIV—the largest such group in any European country. They are Romania’s miracle children, the survivors among the more than 10,000 children infected with HIV between 1986 and 1991 in hospitals and orphanages as a direct result of government policies that resulted in large numbers of...
HIV/AIDS A Church-Sized Problem HIV/AIDS A Church-Sized Problem Tom Correll Wooddale Church, Eden Prairie, MN Author’s Note: HIV/AIDS is an issue of great complexity. For example, you cannot separate AIDS from poverty. Should emphasis be put on prevention or care? How should scarce resources be allocated? Preventing mother to child transmission seems obvious, but the reality is that the child will become an orphan and the...
Children in Crisis: A New Commitment Children in Crisis spells out the role of the church in a biblical, God directed response to the ills of children This unique book acquaints the reader with the problems of street children, sexually exploited children, children of war, child laborers, the girl child, children with HIV/AIDS and more.
After exposing the problems, Children in Crisis shows the reader how some have responded. It also...
| Type: Book | | Related Organization: Crisis Care Training International |
Children affected by HIV/AIDS Compassionate Care Parents, caregivers and professionals all join together in writing this important book on how to effectively and compassionately care for children with HIV/AIDS and AIDS orphans. Keeping to the practical style of Dr. Kilbourn’s other handbooks, this book gives ideas and examples of effective strategies in caring for children affected in some way by AIDS. The book defines the importance of...
| Type: Book | | Related Organization: Crisis Care Training International |
Celebrating Children Full of cutting-edge, practical information, this is a comprehensive reference book written by over 50 contributors from all around the world. Celebrating Children draws on the experience of both government- funded programs and small, sustainable community- based initiatives to address concerns of readers such as a holistic mission to children and the development, evaluation, and monitoring of...
Christians in the Age of AIDS: How We Can be Good Samaritans Responding to the AIDS Crisis Written early in the HIV epidemic, this book explores numerous issues for those in the faith community wanting to respond with compassion to those impacted by HIV/AIDS. Divided into four sections: AIDS and the World, AIDS and the Church, AIDS and the Family, and AIDS and the Individual Christian, the book's 13 chapters cover such topics as: Medical facts, the ministry challenge, ministry models,...
UNICEF's "Fighting HIV/AIDS: Strategies for Success 2002-2005 " Fighting HIV/AIDS: Strategies for Sucess 2002-2005As HIV/AIDS spreads through nations, it disproportionately affects the world's most vulnerable: women, adolescents and children. Those affected are routinely denied their rights to education, economic opportunity and health care, and to protection from exploitation and harm.
This publication looks at the global development challenge posed by...
Kaiser Report: Multisectoral Impact of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic The Kaiser Family Foundation has prepared a primer on The Multisectoral Impact of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic, which explains this concept and summarizes key research assessing impacts to date in many of the worst affected countries, including effects on population structure and demographics, individuals and households, the public and private sectors, health, education, agriculture and food security,...
Up to 1 Million Russians May Be HIV-Positive UP TO 1 MILLION RUSSIANS MAY BE HIV-POSITIVE Between 600,000 and 1 million residents of the Russian Federation are infected with HIV, according to Vadim Pokrovskii, head of the Federal AIDS Center. Speaking to the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly's subcommittee on health, which held a session in Moscow on 23 September, Pokrovskii said more than 330,000 cases of HIV have been registered,...
Unite for Children Unite Against AIDS This UNICEF program strives to bring the specific needs of the most vulnerable children and adolescents into the HIV debate. The program works to prevent infection among adolescents and young people, to prevent mother to child transmission, to provide pediatric treatment and for the protection of orphans and vulnerable children.The report is available in English and in Russian.
UNAIDS 2006 Global AIDS Report The 2006 Report on the global AIDS epidemic contains the most comprehensive set of data on the country response to the AIDS epidemic ever compiled. Not only did 126 countries submit full reports, but, for the first time, civil society was actively engaged in the collection, review and analysis of these country data. In addition, UNAIDS received more than 30 separate reports from civil society,...
U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief: Russia 2007 Over the past decade, Russia has experienced one of the fastest growing HIV/AIDS epidemics in the world. Russia identifi ed its fi rst case of HIV in1987, and until 1995 the prevalence rate remained low. In 1996, the infection rate exploded with 1,515 new cases. After reaching its highest level to date in 2001, the annual number of newly diagnosed cases of HIV/AIDS in Russia has remained...
The AIDS Crisis: What We Can Do Over forty million people today are living with HIV/AIDS. The reality is dark. But in darkness, even one small flame of light makes a difference. And the church of Jesus Christ is bringing light into the darkness of the AIDS crisis all over the world.
Like these churches, this book is a flame. Deborah Dortzbach and Meredith Long offer personal stories, up-to-date statistics and their years of...
Russia Battles to Protect Children from HIV/AIDS "Government clinics and orphanages do their best, providing treatment and a caring environment but the one thing the toddlers really need - which government institutions can't provide - is a loving family."Please read the entire article here.
Disturbing Voices: The 2005 Saddleback Global HIV/AIDS Summit Here it is! Your one-stop resource for learning and life change. Hear and experience the 2005 Disturbing Voices HIV/AIDS Conference at Saddleback Church in this new collection of CDs. Listen to 7 general sessions and 16 workshops. Your church, your life, will never be the same
The Sessions can be ordered in the following formats:
Disturbing Voices: Complete Set, 25 Downloadable MP3 Files...
Race Against Time: The 2006 Saddleback Global Summit on AIDS and the Church In this 3 DVD set you can discover why and how local churches can care for the sick the way Jesus did with messages from 18 leaders of churches and ministries, health and relief organizations, and government and international agencies.
The sessions are practical, easy to understand, and inspiring. In addition to your faith being strengthened and your hope renewed, you will learn a specific...
President Bush's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief PEPFAR is an HIV/AIDS plan that focuses on 15 countries with the highest HIV/AIDS rates. Please see the link below on more information for PEPFAR's work with orphans and children at risk.
"The Emergency Plan expects to support treatment for 2 million HIV-infected people, prevent seven million new infections, and support care for 10 million individuals, including orphans,...
Limited Knowledge of HIV Risk And Prevention In Armenia A joint study by the National Centre for AIDS Prevention, UNICEF and UNAIDS indicates that adolescents and young people aged 10-24 from vulnerable and higher risk groups in Armenia have insufficient levels of knowledge to protect themselves against the spread of HIV infection, according to a study launched today.
To read this article click here.
HIV/AIDS, Law and Human Rights: A Handbook For Russian Legislators HIV/AIDS, LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS: A HANDBOOK FOR RUSSIAN LEGISLATORS -developed and published collaboratively by TPAA and UNAIDS in the Russian Federation, Moscow 2005This edition of the Handbook, which is based on Handbook for Legislators on HIV/AIDS, Law and Human Rights (1999) published by Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and Inter-Parliamentary Union, has become the...
HIV/AIDS and the Global Orphan Emergency: Its Implications for Russia The Power Point presentation of statistics from the Centers for Disease Control HIV/AIDS as compiled by Dr. Susan Hillis, can only be obtained by contacting Cristi Hillis as government regulations prohibit posting the presentation directly on this site. The Power Point presentation is available in English and in Russian. Please email Cristi Hillis and she will be happy to...
| Type: 2006 Summit | | Related Organization: Mission Specialties, Inc. (MSi) |
Health Training Material for Street Children from the World Health Organization The World Health Organization has put together a training package with activities to help workers understand how to help street children deal with some of the issues they encounter on a daily basis which affect their health.
The training packet is broken down into modules which can all be downloaded as a pdf. file.
To access this training package go here and then scroll...
CrossRoads HIV/AIDS Education Resources CrossRoads is a character-based educational strategy dedicated to helping communities around the world discover the hope, life, and truth of Jesus Christ in the midst of devastating social crises like HIV/AIDS.Better Choices Resource Pak This multimedia package can be used to train the local church and prepare them for outreach in their local communities and overseas. The Better Choices Resource...
AIDS: Christian Action and Compassion How should Christians respond to AIDS?
Dr. Patrick Dixon, founder of ACET, shares in this article how Christians should respond to the AIDS crisis. As he states, "So often as Christians reacting to AIDS we do nothing or find ourselves rushing to open our Bibles, to declare to ourselves and to others that something is wrong. Yet in our sudden response we can loose sight of God's mercy,...
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: ACET Russia |
Abandoned Children Born to HIV-positive Women: Analysis of the Situation in Russia "Abandoned Children Born to HIV-positive Women: Analysis of the Situation in Russia" aims to provide Russian political leaders, as well as all concerned, with information on issues related to HIV transmission from mother to child and abandonment of children born by HIV infected women. The Report discusses reasons for such abandonment and formulates suggestions related to the...
A Survey of Russian Doctors on HIV/AIDS Synopsis: Russian doctors are on the front line of the struggle against HIV/AIDS in their country, where the epidemic has surged in recent years. As those responsible for diagnosing, treating, and counseling patients with HIV and AIDS, they have unique insight into the trajectory of the epidemic, the adequacy of current government policies designed to fight HIV/AIDS, unmet needs, and priorities....
Taking Aim at HIV/AIDS Conference Summary The Taking Aim at HIV/AIDS--Conference challenges Christians to confront the HIV/AIDS crisis. On November 15-17, 2006, Tearfund (UK) and Peter Deyneka Russian Ministries (US) hosted the "HIV & AIDS Forum of Good Practice and Networking." This forum took place at the Second Baptist Church in Moscow, Russia, and attracted 153 participants from 15 countries, representing 92...
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: Peter Deyneka Russian Ministries/Association for Spiritual Renewal |
HIV/AIDS Toolkit: What Your Church Can Do
HIV/AIDS Toolkit: What Your Church Can Do Rick and Kay Warren, Elizabeth Styffe and others. With more than 40 million people infected worldwide, the task of bringing the love and acceptance of Christ to those living with HIV/AIDS is overwhelming. We must reach out together and welcome those infected into our lives, homes and churches....
Buckner Foster Parent Takes National Award in Latvia "Biruta Stepina earned the award by opening her home to deaf-mute Latvian children. She is the only foster parent in the country who knows sign language. According to Buckner, the children under her foster care are Dima, Ivo and Inga. All of them are between 7 and 8 years old, and two are deaf-mute. (Biruta has become Dima's guardian.) "Please read this article in its entirety here.
World Mission Atlas Project This site contains various forms of information including maps, tabular data sets, and written descriptions. The information is helpful in assessing the current status of Missions progress throughout the world. It is a constantly expanding site that seeks to produce a strategically significant World Missions Atlas. The WorldMAP consortium is comprised of Evangelical organizations. Collectively we...
Faith in Action Study Bible: Living God's Word in a Changing World Unlike any other Bible available, Faith in Action Study Bible introduces a new and innovative “commentary style” notes system that’s divided into paired notes: “There and Then” and “Here and Now.” “There and Then” notes provide background information and/or explain or amplify the meaning of the text. “Here and Now” notes explore a...
Running a Hotel in Montenegro : Real Jobs for Young People "...There are five youth care institutions, often dealing with mildly or severely disabled youngsters. Bijela boasts one large children’s home, Dom ‘Mladost’, with a whopping 170 children that we would call “normally abled children” between the ages of 0 and 18 years old. ....The main worry is that virtually all these children will have to remain in the...
Aid at the Beginning and End of Life: Russia's Baptist Medical Personnel Have High Hopes M o s c o w – Abortion was the prominent form of contraception in the former Soviet Union. One therefore finds older women in Russia who have had as many as 20 abortions. Russian Baptists want to do something about this on a number of levels, for the issue involves more than simply convincing a pregnant woman that she should give birth to her child. Their programme combating abortion is...
HIV Seroprevalence in Street Youth, St. Petersburg, Russia Reliable data on HIV infection among Russian street youth are unavailable. This study assessed HIV seroprevalence among street youth in St. Petersburg and described social, sexual and behavioral characteristics associated with HIV infection.
Please see the report in its entirety here.
Children: The Missing Face of AIDS in Russia UNICEF CEE/CIS
Moscow, 14 November 2005 – Every day more than 100 new HIV infections are registered in the Russian Federation, with children and young people affected as never before. “The epidemic in Russia has a young face and is fuelled by stigma and discrimination,” said Maria Calivis, UNICEF Regional Director for Central and Eastern Europe and Commonwealth of Independent...
The Five Love Languages of Teenagers Believe it or not, it's possible to make teenagers feel loved without embarrassing them in front of their friends. Dr. Gary Chapman will help you connect with them emotionally, on their terms. There's never been a more important time to tell them you love them, and no tool will be as effective as their love languages.
This resource can be purchased in English from any major book retailer and can...
Orphanages Stunt Growth, Families are Better The following is an excerpt from an article written by St. Louis (Reuters) By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent."Children raised in orphanages are stunted physically, emotionally and intellectually but good foster care can help orphans start to grow again, researchers said on Friday. An experiment in which foster homes were set up in Romania showed that children taken out of the...
Narnia Center Seeking Curriculum Development Consultant Narnia Center in Moscow is searching for a person to work in the area of developing curriculum for the Christian Education of children. This person must have a good theological education, a solid understanding of developmental psychology, practical teaching experience with children ages 4-12 both in churches and other settings, must have good skills writing in Russian and must be at...
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Russia: Drug Addiction Treatment Requires Reform (Moscow, November 8, 2007) – Russian health policies are failing to adequately treat drug addiction, compounding the country’s serious illicit drug use and drug dependence problem and further putting drug users at increased risk for other serious diseases, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. ...Please read this entire article in English or Russian.
More Children than Ever Affected by HIV/AIDS A three-day conference on HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia was held in Moscow in May 2006. Among the topics discussed were the rising numbers of children orphaned or abandoned because of the diseases. This article by Claire Bigg with RFE/RL reports from Russia's only clinic for abandoned children living with HIV, near the city of St Petersburg.Please read the article here.
The Cold War Is Over, but the War Against HIV Has Yet to Begin "In 2005, Russia unveiled a plan that would provide prevention services to at least 80 percent of those populations deemed high risk by 2010.Yet, as of 2007, prevention services are falling short of what was promised. International health consultant Cesar Chelala has assessed the prevention services in Russia and has concluded that they are "non-existent". He did note that a program...
Russia's Abandoned HIV Children This article by Emma Simpson of BBC News Moscow addresses the high rate of child abandonment by HIV positive mothers and the discrimination endured by these children.Please read this article here.
Caring for Children Affected by HIV and AIDS The report looks at how the epidemic undermines children's health and schooling, and reinforces marginalisation and deprivation. It explores the options for the care of children in communities affected by the AIDS epidemic. Beginning with the premise that the parent-child bond is the basic building block of child development and the family the basic unit of society, the report looks at ways to...
Ministry Manager Ministry Manager is designed for an individual on support. It helps you stay organized and stay connected with your partners and supporters. People have a tendency to pray and give to those they hear from frequently. Ministry Manager takes a lot of the time and pain out of communicating with your supporters so you can do it more often and more easily. Ministry Manager can help free up your...
Russia Losing Battle Against HIV/AIDS
Russia has recorded 402,000 HIV/AIDS cases, but more accurate estimates place the number between 1.2 million and 1.3 million.
Approximately 17,000 people out of the 402,000 recorded cases have died from AIDS-related causes.
The number of new cases reported in the first quarter of 2007 increased by 8% to 10% compared with the same period last year....
ECPAT Anti-Trafficking Country Reports This ECPAT (End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes) study covers the reasons and ways in which children are trafficked, and potential prevention strategies. How states deal with cross-border prostitution and separated minor asylum seekers is also considered in this new research, as well as the legislative environment and the application of rules...
I Want to Enjoy My Children If you didn’t plan for them -- or even if you did, having kids may threaten to spoil the fun of marriage. This book shows how to make parenting a fascinating, pleasant journey, wherever it may leadTo purchase this resource, please go to GLINT's online bookstore, search the title and scroll down to select the language of your choice.
| Type: Book | | Related Organization: Gospel Literature International (GLINT) |
The Messiah Story Sine Ministries has developed "The Messiah Story" in audio and print formats. This story weaves the Bible's Gospels into a single, unique history of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. The storyteller Maxus, his young friend Andrew, and the other characters will captivate you. The story will permit you to understand and appreciate the person of Jesus Christ in a deeper way.This could be...
Orphanage Graduates Mentor Younger Orphans The Friends of Russian Orphans, a non-profit organization in Yaroslavl, Russia, has encouraged orphan graduates who have successfully participated in their Post-Orphanage Support Program to form the Graduates' Council. The members of the Graduates' Council serve as role models and invest in the lives of those still in the orphanage through various activities.
To view this...
Heaven Help Me Raise These Children! Janey DeMeo's parenting book, Heaven Help Me Raise These Children, is available from CarePoint Ministries.Heaven Help Me provides biblical direction for practical parenting issues, and especially works as a 12-week small group study, although it can also be read individually.Please tell your church about it and see if they'd be interested in ordering some for a group study.Contact Janey for more...
| Type: Book | | Related Organization: Orphans First |
JESUS Film flannelgraph set Each set contains over 200 colorful flannelgraph figures which can be used to illustrate 48 stories from the life of Jesus. THe figures are based on "The Story of JESUS for Children" which is produced by Campous Crusade for Christ. The are printed on durable felt for long-lasting use.Purchase information can be found here.
| Type: Curriculum | | Related Organization: Kids Around the World |
Abandonment Prevention Programs During the past five years, successful programs to prevent the abandonment of newborns in birthing centers have sprung up in several regions of Russia, including Sverdlovsk region (“Aistenok”), St. Petersburg (“From Despair to Hope”), Khabarovsk (programs in City Hospital #11 and Children’s Hospital #9), and Gatchina (organized by “Warm Home” and other...
Modernizing Child Welfare in Russia with Early Intervention With funding from the United States Agency for International Development, Firefly developed a three-year intensive training that combines research, coursework and supervision to instill modern practices within the Russian professional community. At the same time, government officials receive briefings so they will align government funding and regulations to support newly trained providers.To read...
Abandoned to the State 1998 - It is seven years since the declining Soviet Union released the last of its most renowned political dissidents, and closed a chapter of notorious human rights abuse in psychiatric hospitals and GULAG prisons. Yet today, in another archipelago of grim state institutions, the authorities of the Russian Federation are violating the fundamental rights of tens of thousands of innocent citizens:...
Foster Care in the U.S. and Russia, the Same but Different A brief, general explanation of foster care as it is in the U.S. and in Russia.Read the article here.
President Putin's Annual Address to the Federatin Assembly 2006 President shares understanding of the problems and goals for the fourth national project, which includes policies concerning families and orphans.Read President Putin's address here.
Changing Russia's Approach to Orphans This RIA Novosti article makes the point that the state's efforts alone are not enough to help orphans transition successfully into life after the orphanage and that the public needs to help. Unfortunately, the article also points out that there is a sense of apathy among most Russians towards orphans.See the entire article here.
Needed: Program Manager VacancyProgram ManagerResponsibilities• Participation in the development of strategic plans of the company• Program managing in Moscow and regions• Work with the contract employees for program realization• Participation in the development of program budget• Controlling program budget together with the Head of the office and the Accountant • Controlling the preparation...
| Type: Ministry Position | | Related Organization: KidSave International |
Needed: Fundraising Manager VacancyFundraiser ManagerResponsibilities · Participation in development of fundraising strategy of the company· Searching funds for the organization· Organizing charitable events· Participating in development and writing the requests for Sponsors· Participating in report preparations for SponsorsRequirements· Higher education· Fluent oral and...
| Type: Ministry Position | | Related Organization: KidSave International |
The Sacred Bath: An American Teen's Story of Modern Day Slavery Author Theresa Flores shares her story of trafficking and slavery while living in an upper-middle class suburb of Detroit Michigan. At fifteen years of age, she was drugged, raped and tortured for two long years. Kept in bondage, forced to pay back an impossible debt. All the while living at home, attempting to keep family safe and attending school during the day along side of her abusers. Only to...
Inside the Adoption Agency: Understanding Intercountry Adoption in the Era of the Hague Convention This exciting new book that targets the adoption community of professionals and prospective adoptive parents is titled Inside the Adoption Agency: Understanding Intercountry Adoption in the Era of the Hague Convention. The National Council for Adoption recommends this book and states, "The Erichsens are leading pioneers of Intercountry adoption. Part history lesson and part how-to guide,...
Moldovan Children Struggle to Cope with their Parents' Economic Migration As parents leave their children in the care of relatives or neighbors, the children struggle to adapt to life without their parents. "The ones who suffer most, with or without money, are the children,” says UNICEF Project Officer for Child Rights Radu Danii. “Though many of them have better toys and clothes because their parents are working abroad, consumer goods cannot...
Human Trafficking Survey: Belarus, Bulgaria, Moldova, Romania, and Ukraine The objectives of the survey were to analyze general public attitudes towards employment abroad and human trafficking as well as to estimate the prevalence of human trafficking in these five countries.
Statistics for Children in Crisis Worldwide- Exploitation Up to 27 million people are enslaved through sexual exploitation and forcedlabor, and nearly half of these are children . This is more than double thenumber deported during the 400 years of slave trade to the Caribbean, North and South America, but often the problem is hidden from view.
| Type: Statistic | | Related Organization: Viva Network |
Statistics for Children in Crisis Worldwide- Abandonment Other children have run away from abusive families, or have been abandonedby parents who cannot cope with bringing them up. In Romania, at least 9,000babies are abandoned at hospitals every year .
| Type: Statistic | | Related Organization: Viva Network |
Statistics for Children in Crisis Worldwide- Trafficking So many are vulnerable and far from home, unable to come and go freelybecause they have been trafficked from one country to another. Forced ortricked into leaving their homes, children find themselves in a foreigncountry, with no-one to help them escape the exploitation waiting for themthere. An estimated 1.2 million children are trafficked each year - it isthe fastest-growing form of...
| Type: Statistic | | Related Organization: Viva Network |
Statistics for Children in Crisis Worldwide- Basic Needs Children's health and wellbeing are threatened when their basic needs arenot met. 27,000 children die every day because of hunger or preventabledisease . 100 million children live or work on the streets . Some estimatesare 160 million
| Type: Statistic | | Related Organization: Viva Network |
Sexually Exploited Children: Working to Protect and Heal Dr. Phyllis Kilbourn and Marjorie McDermid provide us with hands-on, practical resource for people who are ready to respond to the need of exploited children. The authors of this volume outline helpful strategies and specific actions to combat this crisis. They also present effective healing and prevention programs. Sexually Exploited Children is...
| Type: Book | | Related Organization: Crisis Care Training International |
Get Well or Else- Forced Drug Treatment "The bill would allow Russia's schools to send pupils under the age of 16 to treatment centers without their consent through a special judicial procedure involving a trial. Parents’ consent would be required, but the fate of orphans and children whose parents are absent for long periods or seriously ill would be left to school administrators."Read the full article by Galina...
Sport, Recreation and Play This UNICEF report states, "Through sport, recreation and play, children and adolescents learn to exercise judgement and think critically while finding solutions to problems. They promote the spirit of friendship, solidarity and fair play, teaching teamwork, self-discipline, trust, respect for others, leadership and coping skills. Essential to ensuring that children develop into responsible...
Violence Against Disabled Children "Children who live with a physical, sensory, intellectual or mental health disability are among the most stigmatized and marginalized of all the world’s children. While all children are at risk of being victims of violence, disabled children find themselves at significantly increased risk because of stigma, negative traditional beliefs and ignorance. Lack of social support, limited...
Children and Disability in Transition in CEE/CIS and the Baltic States The goal of this report, in keeping with the global mandate of UNICEF, is to provide information and analysis that can be used to protect children with disabilities and promote the fulfillment of their rights.This report is available in English and Russian.
The Moldovan Orthodox Church Gets Actively Involved in UNICEF Social Campaigns “We want these resources to help the Church accomplish the important mission it has in each community: the one of supporting families in need, helping and protecting children at risk, and promoting the family as the best environment to bring up and educate children,” - UNICEF Representative Ray Virgilio Torres
Innocenti Social Monitor 2006 The Innocenti Social Monitor 2006 provides practical examples of ways in which children can be given distinct attention and visibility in the analysis of poverty and in policy priorities, while also stressing that data collection has to be improved and made more accessible in order to allow the impact of policies on children to be effectively assessed and addressed.Scroll down the page at this...
Romani Children in South East Europe This UNICEF report details the challenges facing Romani children in South East Europe and poses recommendations to help end discrimination and secure the rights of all children.
Mentally Disabled Children and Youth in Romania This UNICEF report strives to identify real solutions so that young people and children with mental disabilities may benefit from the best of care and living standards. Hopefully, the recommendations and conclusions in this report will help to the achieve this objective.
Uzbekistan: Childhood Under Threat This UNICEF article highlights several issues that threaten the well-being of children in Uzbekistan and makes suggestions on ways to protect them.
Challenge to Civil Society: Russia's Amended Law on Noncommercial Organizations The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom issued a report on Russia's controversial law on nongovernmental organizations. The authors state that the law places "disturbing" restrictions on NGOs.To read the report in its entirety, click here.
The Ministry of Justice has Proposed Restricting Missionary Outreach Four proposed amendments may pose the most serious threat to missionary outreach since the creation of the 1997 Religion Law.This article by A. Verkhovsky for Sova details the four amendments and the possible implications if they are passed.
Russia: A Change to Religion Law? "In what seems the most serious proposal in recent years to tighten up Russia's 1997 religion law, parliament's religion committee has begun to consider four draft amendments, Forum 18 News Service has learnt. These would make it impossible for unregistered religious organisations to hold large-scale religious meetings and allow only centralised religious organisations to invite foreigners...
Russia: Sharing Faith in Public - a Fundamental Right "Recently, local officials have given Forum 18 News Service contrasting reactions to public preaching. This appears to indicate growing disagreement over whether or not the "free dissemination of religious convictions" - as upheld by the 1993 Russian Constitution - is a right subject to state permission."See here to read this Forum 18 News article in its entirety.
EBF Anti-Trafficking Resource Book 2006 The European Baptist Federation workgroup to fight human trafficking has put together a useful resource to help churches become active in battling human trafficking. The resource include Biblical basis for church involvement, suggestions for action and several Bible studies.
Romania's Segregation and Abuse of Infants and Children with Disabilities This report is the result of an 18 month investigation by Mental Disability Rights International (MDRI) into the human rights abuses of children with disabilities in Romania. This report documents a broad range of atrocious conditions for children with disabilities inside Romania’s institutions. While Romania has reduced its orphanage population and created foster care placements for many...
Romania's Blighted Street Children This BBC article discusses the growing problem of street children in Romania and the increasing dangers they face.
Creative Activities for Children in Drop-in or Residential Centers This ECPAT resource offers activities for children of various ages. Most of the activities are low-budget and do not require a large amount of space. Each activity is designed to promote a positive skill or trait such as sympathy for others, patience, problem solving, and communication.
Project Hope: Aiding Disabled Children in Russia This article describes in part the situation for physically disabled orphans and illustrates how one group made a difference. Project Hope is an initiative of International Guardian Angels Outreach.
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: International Guardian Angels Outreach |
Foster Care Roundtable Round Table Discussion on Foster Care family support programsAn important aspect of these programs is the formation by foster parents of support groups. Such groups have been meeting for almost two years in the Volgograd region and play a central role in their overall efforts to prevent orphanhood. Features of the Volgograd model· Parents and children work together with other civic...
Family Centers and Foster Care Programs Family Centers and Foster Care ProgramsBy Ekaterina Vadimovna Celenina, Nadezhda Fund
Families for Teenagers at RiskOlder Orphans and Orphanage Graduates in Various Forms of Foster Care.Post-Institutional Adaptation
Extension of the child’s stay in the orphanage.
Social Adaptation Programs in technical schools and colleges.
Crisis centers for temporary housing and care....
| Type: 2006 Summit | | Related Organization: Children's HopeChest |
Juvenile Justice in the Republic of Moldova This 72 page UNICEF report gives an in-depth explanation and evaluation of the juvenile justice system in Moldova.
Ending Child Abandonment in Romania This article highlights the joint effort of UNICEF and local child protection agencies in Romania to break strong cultural and rooted patterns that encourage child abandonment.
Breaking the Cycle of Child Abandonment in Tbilisi, Georgia This UNICEF article highlights the success of Mother and Infant Shelters in helping mothers in need keep their children. The shelters are funded by UNICEF in partnership with World Vision and help keep families intact.
300,000 Children in Serbia Live in Poverty and Exclusion This UNICEF article highlights the findings of The State of Children in Serbia 2006. The report finds that over 155,000 children in Serbia are poor and that an additional 155,000 are at risk of falling below the poverty line. It additionally points out the extreme exclusion of Roma children, children deprived of parental care in residential institutions, children living with...
Ministry Centers for the Support of Orphanage Graduates Children’s HopeChest Ministry Centers for the Support of Orphanage GraduatesPrincipal preconditions for establishment of Ministry...
| Type: 2006 Summit | | Related Organization: Children's HopeChest |
Combating the Trafficking in Children for Sexual Purposes What is trafficking in children for sexual purposes? How to recognize children at risk and child victims of trafficking? This book is available for download as a pdf file and answers these questions and more.
ECPAT International has extensive information available on their web-site dealing with the issue of commercial exploitation of children.
European Baptist Federation Forms Workgroup to Fight Human Trafficking The European Baptist Federation has formed a workgroup to combat human trafficking. The EBF believes no other group is better prepared to assist the victims of human trafficking than the Church. Find out why here.
Human Trafficking Epidemic in Bulgaria and Romania This article from The Sofia Echo highlights the problems of human and drug trafficking in Bulgaria and Romania.
2006 US State Department Report of Trafficking In 2006, the US State Department published a report on human trafficking around the world. The report designates each country as a country of orgin, transit or destination. Each country also recieves a rating based on the level of trafficking in the country and what the government is doing to combat human trafficking.
Russia was rated one of the worst countries in terms of...
Crisis of Children Trafficked in Moscow This Angel Coalition resource highlights the crisis of children trafficked into Moscow for prostitution. The city currently has no shelters to address the needs of minors who have been trafficked into Moscow and responds by either detaining or deporting them. This resource also highlights several shelters for victims of human trafficking in other areas of...
Combating Trafficking in Women and Children for Sexual Exploitation This protocal serves as in introduction to the problem of human trafficking in Russia and presents a plan of ways to combat it. The Angel Coalition is focused on combatting human trafficking and has several other resources available here.
Raptim Travel Raptim Travel specializes in offering discount airfare for those traveling for missionary, humanitarian or NGO purposes, providing assistance with both individual and group travel.
Hope and a Future Viva Network has produced a 'handbooks' series, which are based on case studies of various child development programmes. They will be particularly useful for those considering setting up a project, but also for those already working with children. Hope and a Future is focused on ministering to street children.Free downloads are available here.
| Type: Book | | Related Organization: Viva Network |
Friends in Need Viva Network has produced a 'handbooks' series, which are based on case studies of various child development programmes. They will be particularly useful for those considering setting up a project, but also for those already working with children. Friends in Need is focused on ministering to orphans in the community.Free downloads are available here.
| Type: Book | | Related Organization: Viva Network |
Jobs for Life Looking for resources on work with children at risk? Viva Network has an excellent directory of materials available for organizations like yours.
Check out this practical manual, along with a number of others, available online for free. If you don't already have it, you will need to download a free version of Acrobat Reader to view these files. Hardcopies are also available for $10 +...
| Type: Book | | Related Organization: Viva Network |
Body, Mind and Soul Looking for resources on work with children at risk? Viva Network has an excellent directory of materials available for organizations like yours.
Check out this practical manual, along with a number of others, available online for free. If you don't already have it, you will need to download a free version of Acrobat Reader to view these files. Hardcopies are also available for $10 +...
| Type: Book | | Related Organization: Viva Network |
Voice in the Streets Looking for resources on work with children at risk? Viva Network has an excellent directory of materials available for organizations like yours.
Check out this practical manual, along with a number of others, available online for free. If you don't already have it, you will need to download a free version of Acrobat Reader to view these files. Hardcopies are also available for $10 +...
| Type: Book | | Related Organization: Viva Network |
UNICEF Program In Chechnya Helps Children Heal Psychologically A UNICEF psychosocial recovery program is helping children heal from the physical and psychological trauma experienced during the war in Chechnya.
To read this article click here.
Chernobyl Disaster Continues To Affect The Health Of Children Twenty Later UNICEF hopes to remind the world that children in areas affected by Chernobyl continue to suffer even though they were born years after the event. High rates of childhood thyroid cancer and iodine deficiency disorders continue to plague children born and growing up in these areas.
To read this article click here.
MTS Travel MTS Travel specializes in offering discount airfare for those traveling for church, mission, relief and development purposes. They provide assistance with individual and group travel.
Fellowship Travel International Fellowship Travel specializes in offering discount airfare for those traveling for non-profit purposes. They provide assistance with individual and group travel.
Ministry Travel Ministry Travel specializes in offering discount airfare for those traveling for ministry or non-profit purposes. They provide assistance with individual and group travel.
Financing Adoptions This website offers a list of adoption grants, loans, etc. to help families who would like to adopt but do not have the funds.
Healing the Children of War Healing the Children of War is designed to give practical guidance to those who desire to be of service to little ones whose lives have been shattered by conflict. Joining Dr. Phyllis Kilbourn as authors are qualified professionals, many of whom, like her, have lived through civil wars alongside the children who suffered unspeakable horrors. Used in over 70 countries this book is an excellent tool...
| Type: Book | | Related Organization: Crisis Care Training International |
Children on the Brink 2004 Children on the Brink 2004: A joint report of new orphan estimates and a framework for action
Author: UNAIDS, UNICEF and USAID Price: Free No. of pages: 42 Publication date: July 2004 Publisher: USAID Languages: English - available as a PDF only. Also available in French and Spanish.
Please go here for your free copy of Children on the Brink.
Millions of children are growing up without...
Launching an Orphans Ministry in Your Church Do you ever wish your church could have a ministry to orphans, but you don’t know how to start? With this easy step-by-step guide, you are given the principles and practical tools needed to launch an effective church orphans ministry. This guide includes a vision-casting DVD hosted by FamilyLife President, Dennis Rainey that will introduce you and your church’s leaders to existing...
Russian Govt Adoption Website This official government website provides a host of good information about orphans in Russia. It has everything from official orphan statistics to rules for international adoption. Unfortunately, the majority of the site is solely in Russian. The top right of the home page does have an English option, which will lead you to a few pages in English.
Street Children: A Guide to Effective Ministry This handbook is uniquely designed to train workers among street children. Examples are given from every continent and many cities that reveal the nature and extent of this global crisis. Several authors explain who street children are, where they can be found, why they are on the streets and the nature of their trauma. Street Children also gives a profile of the street worker, examines bonding...
| Type: Book | | Related Organization: Crisis Care Training International |
Offering Healing and Hope to Children in Crisis Training Seminar Training Seminar: Offering Healing and Hope to Children in Crisis May 17th to 20th, 2006 Charlotte, North Carolina
Please download file for further info: Training Seminar (pdf 559 kb)
Or contact Crisis Care Training International through the contact information above.
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Countries And Peoples Of The World CD ILS International, in cooperation with Adopt-A-People Clearing House, has just released the "Countries and Peoples of the World" CD. This huge reference work, which took six years to complete, contains information on every nation and each of the 16,000+ ethno-linguistic people groups of the world. There are over 34,000 pages of...
Jesus My Very Best Friend Here is the plan of Salvation in a simple story with supporting Bible verses on each page. Colorful illustrations beautifully represent our multicultural world. This is an evangelistic tool with the ability to reach the hearts of children all around the world with the love of Jesus.
http://www.gospelpublishingmission.org/books/jmvbf_russian.php
| Type: Book | | Related Organization: Hope International Missions |
VISAS for Missionaries or Religious Groups Missionary Aviation Fellowship (MAF) offers Russian Visa Letters of Invitation:
For missionaries and religious groups
For single, double and multi-entry visas
Summer Camp for Orphans Volunteers who wish to participate in summer camp for orphans in 2007, please contact Andriy Nazarenko for more information.
| Type: Ministry Position | | Related Organization: Orphans' Future |
Street Children Literature To view more information about this curriculum or to order it, please click here.Offering Healing and Hope for Children in Crisis "Today millions of children live aimlessly on danger-filled city streets—both at home and around the world. These street children are vulnerable, powerless and without a voice. The situations the children confront daily lead not only to physical...
| Type: Book | | Related Organization: Crisis Care Training International |
Papers on Russian Youth Visit Mark Harris' site to read any of his informative papers on Russian youth. The papers available on the site are:
1. Ignorance and Apathy: Background Beliefs, Attitudes and Practices of Evangelical Youth (an ethnographic approach) 2. Filling the Vacuum: Factors in Coming to an Understanding and Appreciation of the Gospel 3. The Experience of Conversion as Reported by Young...
World Christian Resource Directory Have you ever wondered where to look for good Christian resources for use in your ministry? There are many great publishers and distributors with materials in every language, but where do you find them?
This site provides information on resources in many different languages for missionaries and Christians worldwide. You may be especially interested in the Russian Christian Video Directory, and...
| Type: Websource | | Related Organization: World Christian Resource Directory |
Let Your Heart Be Broken
To read more about the Bates' work in Bucharest, Romania, please go to:http://comission.org/organizations/?id=345
STREET KIDS: One young man who had his leg amputated because of gangrene died this week in a Bucharest hospital. We were so saddened because he died so young--had no one. His only possessions were a New Testament and Bible Course that we had given him. The hospital had burned...
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: Inasmuch Romanian Children's Home |
Sampling of Internet Resources on Children at Risk Editor's Note: For valuable lists of links to organizations and reports dealing with post-Soviet orphans and street children, visit the following Web sites: Beeson Divinity School Global Center:http://www.samford.edu/groups/global/links/childrenatrisk-ee
Rainbows of Hope:http://www.wec-int.org/rainbows/resources/links/index.phpEastern European Adoption...
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: East-West Church and Ministry Report |
Street Children In The Former Soviet Union A very informative article by Kelsey Hoppe.
http://www.comissionforchildren.com/articles/files/Street_Children_Paper.pdf
Russian National Network The National Network of Christian Organizations For Children at Risk desires to mobilize and unite many organizations whose passion is to help the most disadvantaged group of people in Russia;orphans and homeless children. The main goal of the network is not to create a new structure, but to improve resources that the network partners already have and to share valuable information with each other....
| Type: Partnership Opportunity | | Related Organization: The Russian National Network |
Russian Ministries' Summer Camps Bringing a lifetime of change to the hurting children of the former Soviet Union
Summertime for children in the Soviet Union meant an escape into nature combined with atheistic propaganda at one of the 40,000 campsites which the Communists built for this purpose. Most Russian evangelical pastors and their children didn't participate in those state-supported atheistic youth-training programs. But...
| Type: Service | | Related Organization: Peter Deyneka Russian Ministries/Association for Spiritual Renewal |
Hotels Russia Online reservations for hotels across Russia. www.hotelsrussia.com/
Long Distance Phone Cards and Plans All of the following sites provide long-distance plans for calling internationally from the U.S. Some offer rates from other countries as well. Most of these plans can be purchased online. This listing is not an endorsement, but we hope that the information provided will save you money.
Things to look for: Some phone cards have surcharges, connection fees and/or monthly fees that should be...
Hotels Guide of St. Petersburg This is a practical guide to information about hotels in St. Petersburg with on-line hotel reservations at competitive rates. In most cases these rates are lower than those that you get directly from hotels. They also provide visa support for their clients.
Explore the website. The Hotels Chart allows you to compare brief statistics of various hotels and make your...
From Trajectories of Despair to Trajectories of Hope I would like to say a few words of introduction about myself and the organization with which I work, Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW). All I ever say about myself is that I am a nurse and a social scientist by intention and a baroness by astonishment. It is God's sense of humor, because I have to confess I do not like politics. When I received a summons to Number Ten Downing Street by the then...
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: Christian Solidarity Worldwide |
A Theme Issue on Children at Risk The theme of this issue of the East-West Church & Ministry Report, children at risk in post-Soviet societies, draws heavily upon presentations given at the National Summit of the CoMission for Children at Risk, held in Atlanta, GA, 9-11 November 2000. At that meeting more than 200 participants representing over 120 church and parachurch agencies gave concentrated focus to practical questions...
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: East-West Church and Ministry Report |
Bless the Children The Biblical Mandate
Children at risk in Russia and the former Soviet Union are coming over the hill. Do we see them? They cry to us. They are running to us with hope in their hearts that we will hear their cries, that our arms will be open for them, that we are eager to touch their lives in blessing. Children in crisis draw from us a new commitment to see to it that they receive the blessing...
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: Salvation Army |
Networking to Address the Need No doubt we all want to make a difference. What can we learn from the experience of Nehemiah in rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem in terms of making a difference? And how is Nehemiah's experience in Jerusalem like our experience with children in Russia and Eastern Europe? Let me suggest several parallels. First, Israel's Babylonian captivity parallels the plight of families in the former Soviet...
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: Mission Specialties, Inc. (MSi) |
An Epidemic of Hopelessness Among Children at Risk in Eastern Europe Russian children fill my life. They are my family, my ministry, and my professional work. I work for the Centers for Disease Control and I want to share about an emerging epidemic of hopelessness in Eastern Europe. I want to share with you first how the Lord gave me a concern in this area; second, evidence of an emerging epidemic; and third, what we as believers can do to put an end to...
Child Helpline In Russia? The Railway Children is a UK NGO supported in the main by the railway industry. It focuses on early intervention offering help to street children and runaways, funding partners to have a presence on railway and other transport stations worldwide. The aim is to reintegrate children with their families or into a caring organisation before they are exploited, abused or corrupted. It...
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Children and the Development of the Church Viva Network has launched an online discussion forum to encourage church-planting agencies and organizations working with children at risk to find ways to partner. The forum examines where and how such partnerships have already taken place, as well as the underlying holistic principles apparent in case studies and reports. It is easy to use and free to...
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Forgiven and Set Free: A Post-Abortion Bible Study for Women Christian Camping International/Russia has recently published the book "Forgiven and Set Free" by Linda Cochrane. It is available in Russian from their St. Petersburg office.
| Type: Book | | Related Organization: Christian Camping International |
Our Family - Foster Care Program In Moscow, "Our Family" is a foster care program run by Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW). Up to 14 children live in a family-style home, where they receive professional support, as well as loving care, to prepare them for foster family placements. Based at the same site, the foster-care program services, recruits, assesses, and trains prospective foster parents. Both...
| Type: Training | | Related Organization: Christian Solidarity Worldwide |
Portable Dental Equipment If you are involved in providing dental health care in the former Soviet Union, you may be interested in the lightweight, portable dental equipment that Trailside Dental has developed. They have all the equipment needed to administer standard dental care anywhere and any time. Products include complete and partial dental units, portable chairs, and electricity-generating units...
| Type: Service | | Related Organization: TrailSide Dentistry |
Partner with International Orphan Foundation International Orphans' Foundation (IOF) promotes adoption by recruiting prospective adoptive families and creating a comfortable environment in which they can consider adoption through:
Child Sponsorship
Short-Term Missions Trips
Summer Hosting Program
IOF seeks mutually beneficial partnerships with Christian organizations that:
Offer year-round Christian...
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U.S. Ambassador to Russia Remarks on International Adoption #17 - JRL 9106 - JRL HomeRemarks - International Adoption Round TableAlexander Vershbow, U.S. Ambassador to RussiaMoscow, March 28, 2005
I would first like to thank Ambassador Lukin and the organizers of this round table for providing me the opportunity to express my views on the very important topic of the rights of a child to a family. For most of us, there is nothing more important in life...
Restoring Children of the Streets Restoring Children of the Streets
Now also available as a download... (Adobe Acrobat Reader required. File size: 3.7 MB)
Restoring Children of the Streets: A Guide for Mobilizing and Equipping God's People Around the World is a 154-page manual/workbook authored by Jeff Anderson of ACTION International. It is designed to assist Christians in ministering the Gospel to the 160 million...
| Type: Book | | Related Organization: Action International Ministries |
How to Adopt Internationally Mesa House PublishingPress Release
New Book Aimed at Growing Number of Hopeful Parents Looking to Adopt Internationally
Numbers for 2002 show continued growth despite travel concerns and economic uncertainty
Fort Worth, TX - Despite a sagging economy and lingering nervousness over foreign travel, the popularity of international adoption seems to be holding tight.
Tight enough that authors...
Russian Adoption Handbook: How to Adopt a Child from Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan The Russian Adoption HandbookHow to Adopt a Child from Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstanby John H. Maclean
Now Available at Barnes & Noble stores nationwide!Adopting a child can be one of the most rewarding experiences of your life, yet complex policies, legal risks, and fewer available children make adopting domestically a difficult choice. International adoption offers a...
Adopting In Russia: Your Rights and the Law Adopting In Russia: Your Rights and the Lawby Irina M O'Rear
This is a book that contains clear and comprehensive information about adopting in Russia and the Laws that apply. These important Laws have been translated from Russian into English and provide the readers with true and accurate content in order to understand their legal rights as they apply to adoption in Russia. It is...
The Story of Jesus for Children The Story of Jesus for Children, adapted from the original "JESUS" movie classic, will give every child, both churched and unchurched, a chance to see and hear the gospel in a way he/she can understand, in every possible language worldwide.
This 62-minute video entertains, educates, and introduces children to the life of Jesus of Nazareth, giving them a chance to see and hear the...
MAP International (Medicine and Medical Supplies)
International Medical resources
International / U.S. Programs
MAP's International Medical resources (IMR) team procures and distributes both donated and purchased medicines and medical supplies to hundreds of mission...
Funds Available for Campers in Tatarstan Pioneers has a new project to help get non-Christian Russian kids who live in Tatarstan and other regions bordering Tatarstan to attend Christian camps.They will pay half the cost, up to $35 per child, for non-Christian kids to attend a Christian summer camp. Pioneers works with local churches who must come up with the other half of the support for the kids and who must make at...
| Type: Service | | Related Organization: Pioneers |
Online Bible In Multiple Languages
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Commentary on Russian Law Esther Legal Information Service is planning to publish a book of comments on Russian law in Russian and English. This book will be invaluable for anyone living or working in Russia, with information on visas, marriage, adoption, and starting a business or non-profit organization in Russia. If you are interested in obtaining a copy please contact Ekaterina Smyslova for more...
Brigada Today Each weekend, Brigada Today comes to your inbox filled with resources, ideas, and mobilization news about missions and unreached peoples. This newsletter contains lots of helps for people involved in making missions happen. To start receiving it, enter your email address below. Please be assured that your email address will be kept private, and that Brigada...
Siberian Shivers Stuff your stockings with Siberian Shivers!
"My teeth were chattering, lungs bursting, body roasting alive..."
The story of a Californian's first exposure to a Siberian steam bath is something to laugh about-later. Siberian Shivers shares Bill Harris' adventures in Siberia, humorously recounting cross-cultural predicaments and offering spiritual insights...
The Great Siberian Rail Adventure Stuff your stockings with The Great Siberian Rail Adventure!
"We fought our way yard by yard back toward the train...."
Frantically boarding was just the beginning. The story of the Harrises' journey by car, ship, and rail across Russia is a hilariously heart-stopping tale. Come along and you'll find a dragon, an axe-wielding conductor, a supersonic clothes washer, and a van...
A Model for Western - National Partnerships In his new book, Hank Paulson, founder and president of New Hope International, shares a practical model of partnership for western and national believers working together for the cause of Christ. Global Partnerships: Networking and Nationals explains why this new model of missions is needed to replace less effective traditional methods. Through examples from the experience of New Hope...
| Type: Book | | Related Organization: New Hope International |
The Struggles and Successes of Trans-Racial, Cross-Cultural Adoptions JUST RELEASED OCTOBER 2004
The Struggles and Successes of Trans-racial, Cross-Cultural Adoptions
Nineteen years in the making, Butterflies in the Wind: The Truth About Latin American Adoptions, by Jean Nelson-Erichsen, LSW-MA, spans the lives of three children adopted at infancy and elementary school age. With sensitivity and humor, this personal record tells of their development, along...
TntMPD Free Support Raising Software TntMPD is a free program, developed by Campus Crusade for Christ, that is designed to help missionaries strengthen relationships with their ministry partners. Although others might also find it useful, it is especially beneficial for those who raise their own support.
Find out more and download it from here for free:http://www.tntmpd.com
Software Donations For Non-Profits The right technology products can greatly benefit your organization, but it is often a challenge to obtain them easily and affordably.
TechSoup Stock helps nonprofits acquire donated technology products for administrative fees as low as 4% of retail value. You'll find essential products, from office software and operating systems to volunteer and donor management databases. TechSoup...
Unrestricted Global Healthcare After more than eight years of searching for ways to provide truly global medical coverage, Talent Trust Consultants (TTc) has now launched the Omega Program. This program provides both missionaries (or church workers) serving in their home countries, as well as those ministering abroad, with full worldwide healthcare coverage at wonderfully cost-effective rates. If you...
Courses In Christian Economic Development Do you minister to the poor in the U.S. or in the 2/3 World? If so, training that you need is available now via email-based distance courses and live events. Learn innovative, holistic economic development strategies and methodologies to help the poor and build the local church. For information on live events or their email-based distance learning, visit their website or email them today!
The...
Narnia Project (The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe) In December 2005 a new version of the beloved story, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe will be coming to theaters all across America. Millions of kids and their parents will be exposed to C.S. Lewis's timeless story of children who enter a different realm through a wardrobe and find another reality, where good and evil collide and a Lion triumphs and brings redemption.
Within weeks of its...
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Meeting the Needs of Russia's Children in Crisis I am simply one who has been called by God to do something I enjoy a lot: serve people I love. In late 1994 I left the International Bible Society and made the decision that I would start Children's HopeChest with the help of Katya Celinina and Jenya Polonskaya [Haps]. My heart was deeply moved by the needs of kids coming out of orphanages in transition to independent living. There was no...
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: Children's HopeChest |
Orphanage Assistance I was not a Christian when a U.S. CoMission team of the Mission Society for United Methodists came to Khabarovsk, Siberia, and asked me to teach Russian. God just showed me Christ through all the people in this group. I made a commitment to Christ and I asked Rev. Jack Stevenson from the CoMission team to baptize me. Since then I have worked with this team in Khabarovsk.
Mutual...
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: The Mission Society |
Foster Care for Russian Orphans Buckner International Adoption and Maternity Services was founded in Dallas, Texas, in 1879 to provide help to post-Civil War orphans. It now has some 1,000 employees working across Texas in childcare programs, residential and foster care, counseling, and both domestic and international adoption. Buckner Orphan Care International provides services to children in Romania, Russia, China, and...
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: Buckner International |
Microenterprise Development for Children at Risk Mission Specialties has a small project in St. Petersburg that we started in 1998. It is a byproduct of another project that allowed the Easter story to be shared in hundreds of Russian orphanages. Children competed in a crafts and essay contest on the theme of Easter. We received many hundreds of entries from orphans all over Russia. A committee in Moscow selected ten winners whose grand prize...
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: Mission Specialties, Inc. (MSi) |
Transition Centers for Orphanage Graduates In 1994 Children's HopeChest was founded to provide practical help and God's hope to Russian orphans. We started in the Vladimir Region and expanded to the Kostroma Region in 1999. Currently in the two regions we are ministering to 2,500 children from ages four to eighteen. We have developed a holistic approach to address the physical, medical, emotional, educational, and spiritual needs of the...
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: Children's HopeChest |
Reaching Out to Street Children Rainbows of Hope has the privilege of working in 16 countries across Asia, Latin America, Africa, and Eastern Europe. We work with abused and battered children with deep psychological traumas. This, of course, includes children who are living on the streets. We praise the Lord that we are able to reach out and touch these children. I think this is one of the most exciting developments in missions...
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: Crisis Care Training International |
How Well Do Children Adopted from Eastern Europe Fare? Prospective adoptive families frequently ask how well adopted children adjust. The myriad of adoption stories families hear by word of mouth, on the Internet, or in other media run the range from wonderful to nightmarish. Anyone who is considering adoption wants to know that they are doing the right thing and that adopted children are doing well in their new families.
Rainbow House...
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: Holt International |
Appropriate Giving Editor's Note: The National Summit on Children at Risk held in Atlanta, GA, 9-11 November 2000, included many valuable discussion periods. Below are excerpts of insightful comments from participants on "appropriate giving."
Vic Jackopson, Hope Now, Southampton, England
Hope Now works with ten orphanages and two rescue shelters as well as seven of our own cottage homes. These homes are...
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: East-West Church and Ministry Report |
Paying Taxes in Ukraine - A Testimony to God's Blessing Dear fellow workers,
When Hope Now registered as a Ukrainian charity we were, for the first time, faced with the issue of paying local taxes. Believing the Scriptures, as we do, this presented no moral dilemma. We did have some difficulty explaining to our own donors that although we were looking after orphans and homeless children who would otherwise be wards of the state, we were charged...
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: Hope Now |
