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Read about the children we serve and receive important updates from our team, partners, and supporters.
Earlier this year we refreshed our logo. Today, we are excited to show you our all-new website, designed with YOU in mind. Our goal, quite simply, is that this website refresh will better connect you with the people we serve, as well as give you the tools you…
Because of you, over 6,500 orphaned and vulnerable children have become sons and daughters through adoption. Thank you for continuing to give so that families--like the Tubergen family--can bring children into their home. Here is their story. MEETDAVID & MELISSA Like many young couples, David and Melissa…
In February 2017, we were matched with a precious little 3-year-old boy in Harbin, China. We were full of nerves and excitement until the moment we could finally meet him. As he walked into the conference room where we waited, all of our fears and nerves were replaced…
Start a conversation about adoption and it will (likely) take no time at all for the discussion to turn to money and "cost." It is no secret that adoption is expensive, but is it worth it? Here are 3 thoughts— 1. Adopting will cost you something. There is…
Your support helps change the lives of orphans around the world. Whether through adoption funding or orphan care, lives are being transformed by the Gospel. Here is one family's story. https://vimeo.com/267447756?share=copy Meet Pastor Maron and his wife, Precious. Pastor Maron is the campus pastor and the Discipleship Director…
My children have two mothers. Both of us are real mothers. Both have flesh and blood and love and pain. Both have pieces of our hearts that have been broken by goodbyes. Both of us have spent too many days apart from our children. In our home we…
It is often said that adoption takes a village, and it does! But specifically--Biblically--it takes the Church. If you are looking to expand your Church family's knowledge of or involvement with adoption, here are 7 ways to do so— 1. Welcome the questions. Anyone who has or was adopted knows adoption…
Andy and Abby Huette know first-hand the powerful impact of being loved and supported by their church family during and after an adoption. In 2008 the couple joined a short-term mission team to Lifesong School in Zambia where God broke their hearts for the orphan. Leaving the children of Zambia to return home…
Adoptive families crave authentic, supportive community, and there should be no better place to find it than in the local church. Plain and simple, when families step into foster care and adoption, they enter the pain and suffering of another human being. In doing so, they often become brokenhearted.…
My name is Christy. Growing up, my family went to the annual fundraiser for a local children's home, which made me aware of the great need of children without families. Adoption was something God placed on my heart from an early age and continued to remind me of…