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Your Church Can Help Foster and Adoptive Families. Here’s How.
In your church, families who are fostering and adopting need your help. Here at Lifesong, we take seriously our responsibility—and privilege—to encourage churches and church leadership like yours to get involved, and to equip church members to reach children and families in need. Jason Johnson, Director of Church…
What Happens When Kids Age Out?
One of the most vulnerable times in a person's life—whether here in the U.S. or around the world—happens right after graduation. Specifically, graduating from foster care or an orphanage into adult living can be scary and unpredictable. People like you make it possible for kids like Sam to…
What Happened to Nollay?
If you've ever wondered what sponsorship can really do for a child in need, this is your answer. Here's an update from one of our Ethiopia teammates, Shonda Dietz. . Ethiopia—so much poverty, so much devastation, so many hard things. How much of a difference can one school…
Why Keep Saying “Yes” to these Children?
Thank you for supporting orphaned children inGuatemala and believing with us that God has a heart for the least of these. Here's some recent news from our teammate, Addisyn Block– Waiting for hope *Mariana was just hours old when she was abandoned and left alone at a hospital…
Look What’s Being Built in Liberia!
Your support for orphaned and vulnerable children is changing lives. There's excitement in the air at the Marshall Home of Champions. Why? A new girls' dormitory is being built on campus. Located beyond the garden area and across from the original home and the school, this building will…
Look What’s Happening in Zambia!
Thank you for supporting orphaned and vulnerable children. Through you, God is raising up leaders in Zambia who will impact generations to come. Here's some exciting news from our team. Celebrating Women In early March, we celebrated International Women's Day. This event brought together women from our…
My Turn | Kolia’s Story
Your decision to care for one child in need has the incredible potential to multiply and impact manylives for eternity.How? By reaching one child in need who grows up to reach other children in need. People like you cared for a boy named Kolia, and here's the incredible…
A Mother’s Painful Choice … and Her Faithful God
We believe God intends all children to grow up in safe, loving homes. And whenever possible, we support family preservation. We also believe the Church is the solution for children and families in need. Because of your prayer and support for the ministry in Cambodia/Thailand, we recently received…
Win a Trip to CAFO2019 Summit!
Join us for CAFO2019 Summit! Next month, thousands of orphan care, foster care, and adoption advocates will meet in Louisville, KY, on May 8-10, for the 2019 Christian Alliance for Orphans Summit. We want YOU to be able to attend, so we're giving you the chance. Keep…
Adopting? Don’t Give Up Hope.
Adoption and childbirth have something in common: labor pain. Adopting families must learn the delicate art of trusting God wholeheartedly even while laboring intensely for months or even years while God's plan for their family unfolds. Nobody knows this better than one of our families who received a matching…