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The Powerful Story Behind Orphan Sunday
In Lusaka, Zambia—a city of over 1 million people—is a tiny compound called Kalingalinga. Here, the roads are dusty as the sun beats an eternal inferno on the heads of street vendors selling vegetables to make ends meet.Children laughas they maneuver a tire around the deep puddles from…
How to Use Your Holiday Budget to Make the Biggest Impact
The average American will spend approximately $650 on gifts this year. Which, according to the National Retail Federation, will total more than $465 billion during this holiday season. That's a lot of money, and it's a lot of opportunities to impact lives. Regardless of whether we spend $700…
How to Pray about Adoption
Prayer is easily one of our best and most underutilized tools. It's not because we don'twantto pray. Nor is it because we don't believe prayer is powerful. Sometimes we simply don't knowwhatto pray. Life—and specifically adoption—can get really complicated, so sometimes we end up making vague requests or…
Something Needs to Change | David Platt
"Something needs to change!" David Platt's vulnerable new book, Something Needs to Change: A Call to Make Your Life Count in a World of Urgent Need takes you along on a journey through the Himalayan mountains where Platt witnesses urgent physical and spiritual need. He then wrestles with hard questions…
How to Tell Your Child’s Story: 3 Thoughts
You are raising an incredible, resilient child. And, by design, you are your child's greatest cheerleader. You get to champion the story. As a fellow adoptive parent, I have the desire to shout from the rooftops what God is doing in my child's life. Even further, I want…
Where Pain and Purpose Meet
Caring for children in need is not a natural decision. If it were instinctive, far more people would do it. And God wouldn't need to remind us throughout the Bible to make it a priority. Caring for children in need—whether working in Southeast Asia to rescue children from trafficking,…
Redefining Retirement: God’s Surprise Plan
How do you want to spend your retirement? Ever think that God might call you to add another child to your family? Would you be willing to open your heart and your home to a foster child or a newly adopted child? Here at Lifesong, we were overjoyed…
Raising Kids Who Care: 5 Ways to Inspire Compassion
One thing is increasingly clear: We live in a world of hurt. Right now, as we prepare our kids for an exciting new school year, there are many children—some who will sit right next our kids in the classroom—who have spent this summer experiencing abuse, hunger, or isolation.…
Take a Trip to Camp in 10 Pictures!
Attending a Christian camp can be a wonderful, life-changing experience. Each summer—with the prayer and support of people like you—our team in Ukraine hosts multiple camp programs for our students to learn about God and grow in their walk with him. Through fun, age-appropriate activities, the children build…
How to Choose: Open, Semi-open, Closed Adoption
One of the first things you must decide is ... whether you want to choose to pursue open, semi-open, or closed adoption. Your choice depends on the relationship you want to have (and you ultimately want your child to have) with your child's birth family over time. So how…