Redeeming Orphans

Anthony Bradley has written an article addressing the fact that African-American children are far less likely to be adopted than non-African-American kids.  He writes:
  “Increasing the number of black adoptive parents will require more education, cooperation, and partnerships among the roughly 46,000 black congregations in America. Evangelicals are growing in their awareness of the implications [...]

The Haiti Orphan Relief Team (HORT) is an amazing collaboration of disaster response experts and U.S. based orphan care and advocacy organizations. The goal of HORT is to identify, train and resource Haitian churches to be the direct rescue and care mechanism for Haiti’s hundreds of thousands of orphans. This is truly the most effective [...]

Today was a great day at Ninth & O Baptist Church, our church home.  It was the official launch of our orphan care ministry, Rosalynn’s Hope.  Go to its website if you would like to read about the ministry, and follow it on twitter.  Suzanne and I are involved in the resourcing area of the [...]

Written by Steve Burchett, taken from bulletininserts.org:
James would be surprised that we now have what some have called an “adoption movement” in our country. When he wrote, “Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress” (James 1:27), he was writing about [...]

Tom Davis:
The Bliss Institute recently commissioned a study on what “Conservative Religious Activists” deem important and what “Progressive Activists” deem important. You can download the study here.  but for definition’s sake:

“Conservative and progressive religious activists have distinct profiles in terms of affiliation, practice, and belief”
“Conservative religious activists are almost exclusively Christian.”
“Progressive activists are markedly more diverse in [...]

Jonathan Everette wrote a great article that’s worth reading, “Everyone Is Called to Consider Adoption“, for the Spartanburg Herald-Journal.  He writes,
“There are 143 million orphans in the world. That number bothers me. It should bother you, too. The significance of that number is that tonight, after you read this, 143 million kids will go to [...]

Kay Warren (wife of Rick Warren) is on the Focus on the Family podcast challenging Christians and churches on how they might get involved in caring for orphans.
Listen here

This article on how to fund an adoption is taken from the Abba Fund blog:
Federal Adoption Tax Credit
Currently the federal adoption tax credit provides a credit of up to $12,150 per child (2009) for “qualified adoption expenses.” This credit has helped many couples plan and finance their adoption. Additional details about the Federal Adoption Tax [...]

Southeast Christian Church in Louisville, KY has a generous adoption fund known as Naomi’s Fund.  Russell Moore briefly interviews (about 3 and a half minutes) the couple that started Naomi’s Fund about starting a church adoption fund.
Listen here

My wife and I did not form our family like most people.  After about 2 years of marriage, we felt an increasing desire to become parents. So, we began working toward pregnancy. We had also talked about adopting at some point.  My wife really wanted to adopt, and I also thought it might be a [...]

On the Together for Adoption blog, Dan Cruver summarizes a helpful article by Paul Golden on how churches can become adoption friendly:
Pray that you and your church would become an adoption-friendly church.
Preach key passages on caring for orphans and spiritual adoption.
Make adoption resources available to the church family.
Frequently list pro-adoption ministries and organizations.
Encourage couples facing infertility [...]

There is a sermon by Francis Chan called “Living to Display the Gospel” which I have probably listened to 10 times. It is easily one of the most challenging and convicting messages I’ve heard. It’s a call for Christians to radically simplify our lives so that we can give more of ourselves (and our money) [...]