We are excited to share this post from Cheryl Bentsen, a wife and an adoptive mother to two beautiful children. She and her husband Jason started gathering adoptive and foster families in their home just over a year ago. Since then, God has used them to encourage dozens of families to find fellowship and encouragement along the …
Welcoming Families in the Messiness
By Robin Pennington. Too many of us know what it is to pick up our child from their Sunday School class and be met by the lead teacher. You know it’s bad when the lead teacher comes to greet you! And you might know that sinking feeling when you hear what your child was up to while you were away for an hour. If we had a …
How the Church Can Serve Families Affected by Disabilities (Video)
The church should be a place of refuge for adoptive and foster families in crisis. But practically equipping a church to welcome and care for families in crisis takes intentional planning and sacrificial love. Over the next several weeks, Hope for Orphans is zooming in on specifically what this can look like for your …
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Paul Tripp & Kevin Peck on Adoption, the Gospel, and Parenting (Free Video)
HFO is delighted to share this free video of our interview with ROOTED speakers Paul David Tripp (pastor, author, and speaker) & Kevin Peck (senior pastor at Austin Stone Community Church). We hope you're encouraged by this discussion of adoption and gospel-centered parenting. When you click on the video, you will be …
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What I Learned from the Church in Cuba
Sometimes it feels easier just to focus on the people in front of us. The world’s a big place, and there are a lot of hurting and vulnerable children in every part of it. But let’s reject the lie that we cannot make a difference with such an immense problem. God is also in every part of the work, at work in churches, …
Caring for Orphans at Home and Abroad: Matching Grant Opportunity
God designed the family as the place for children to be protected, nurtured, and to learn about him. Yet there are 200 million children worldwide, with no mother or father able to care for them. In the United States alone, almost 500,000 children are in foster care. Here is the big lie that many Christians believe: “There …
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Hope for Orphans on FamilyLife Today This Wednesday and Thursday
Tune in to your local station of Family Life Today Wednesday and Thursday to hear the ROOTED interviews with Dennis Rainey and Bob Lepine! Wednesday (April 19), Paul and Robin Pennington will be joining Dennis and Bob to talk about the joys and unexpected challenges of adoption. This interview will specifically speak to …
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Paul David Tripp on God’s Present Grace for Parents
Today, we have the privilege of posting an excerpt from Paul David Tripp’s recent book Parenting: 14 Gospel Principles That Can Radically Change Your Family, which you can purchase here. Over the years, we have enjoyed working with Paul David Tripp on ROOTED and other projects, and we deeply appreciate how he …
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