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April 24, 2019 By Hope for Orphans

How Orphan Ministry Became Part of One Church’s DNA

A quiet Wednesday about two months ago, we received an email from a pastor at Osborne Baptist Church in Eden, NC, sharing how they had been using If You Were Mine, a HFO online workshop introducing families to adoption and orphan ministry.The pastor explained that their church’s orphan ministry had become “really more …

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April 20, 2018 By Hope for Orphans

What Easter Means for Orphan Care

By Elizabeth Pennington. When Jesus walked on earth, God’s chosen people had been suffering affliction and oppression for centuries. Under the trauma of first Assyrian and Babylonian, then Greek, and finally Roman rule,  the Jews lived in uncertainty and instability, waiting for the promised Rescuer to enter their world and …

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February 21, 2018 By Hope for Orphans

What Does HFO Do?

What does Hope for Orphans do? It’s a question we’ve heard several times over the years. And we get where it comes from. Hope for Orphans is driven by a single mission—to serve churches in reaching every orphan with the love of Jesus—but that mission looks like a lot of different things. It looks like developing …

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January 18, 2018 By Hope for Orphans

Giving Your Loaves and Fish

By Elizabeth Pennington. As a mother of many (both biologically and through adoption), I know what it’s like to be stretched. Over the years, I have sat through conferences, hearing the long list of things that I need to add to my motherhood to-do list: Spend time alone with each child each day. Be consistent with family …

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October 31, 2017 By Hope for Orphans

3 Ways to Center Our Hope for Orphan Care on Christ

By Tony Richmond, associate pastor for family ministry at First Baptist Church of Keller, Texas “To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.” Colossians 1:27 In orphan ministry, as in any ministry, we can sometimes …

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October 24, 2017 By Hope for Orphans

Beyond “Let Me Know”

“Please let me know if there’s anything I can do”. This is a statement that I’m frequently guilty of using in my daily language, as a pastor’s wife and as a social worker at an adoption agency. It so quickly rolls off my tongue when talking to a grieving member of our congregation, and it’s a simple closing of an email to a …

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October 10, 2017 By Hope for Orphans

Practical Ways Our Community Has Loved Us and Our Foster Kids

We are excited to share this post from Belinda Hogstrom, a foster mother who blogs at Psalm113:9Mama. Over the past 22 years, Belinda and her husband Matt have fostered more than 70 children ranging from infants to teenagers, including many medically fragile children. My friend’s kitchen. Over the years it has been used to …

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September 25, 2017 By Hope for Orphans

How This Church Started An Adoption Ministry

We are grateful for the opportunity to share this post from Taralyn Amen. Taralyn and Darrel Amen have been married 20 years and have five precious children, two of whom God brought to their family through adoption. They are covenant members of The Village Church in Flower Mound, Texas, where Darrel serves as an Elder. They have …

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