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 …
Orphan Ministry
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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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 …
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 …
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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Gaps in Christian Orphan Ministry
Survey Reveals Adoptive Families Need More Support from their Churches What are churches doing about orphan ministry? What needs and opportunities do the women leaders in gospel-driven churches see in the growing adoption and foster care movement? Last summer, Hope for Orphans had the opportunity to participate in the Gospel …
What Does Adoption Have to Do with Spiritual Warfare?
This content is adapted from Pastor Halim Suh’s message in the ninth session of ROOTED, our new parenting curriculum for adoptive and foster families. To learn more about ROOTED or to purchase the curriculum for your family, church, or agency, go to hopefororphans.org/rooted. In our recent post about the top five needs …
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