Resources
Post-Holiday Transitions
Children, especially those from trauma backgrounds, tend to find stability and safety in structured, predictable environments. Those two words are not typically used to describe holidays or winter breaks. Additionally, holiday breaks are short in nature, so the transitions are swift and bring abrupt changes and challenges in a short amount of time. Add cold
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Fostering Hope
With over 400,000 children in the U.S. in state care, we are in the midst of a crisis. For the church, the most difficult aspect of foster care is knowing how to get involved. Lifeline Children’s Services wants to take the guesswork out of getting your church engaged in bringing the gospel to bear to
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Equipped to Love
Equipped to Love is a resource to help family and friends support the adoptive and foster families in their church.
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Connect Guide
Connecting with other adoptive and foster parents allow space to build relationships, offer advice, and share the adoption and foster care journey. We've learned that newer connection groups benefit from structure and short outlines.
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Invite a Speaker
Need a speaker for your next event? Our staff at Lifeline is comprised of passionate and experienced ministry leaders and professionals who desire to share their knowledge and expertise with you.
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KnowOrphans
KnowOrphans addresses three distinct areas associated with global orphan care.
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Orphanology
Orphanology unveils the grassroots movement that’s engaged in a comprehensive response to serve hundreds of millions of orphans and “functionally fatherless” children. In this book, you will see a breadth of ways to care with biblical perspective and reasons why we must.
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Backyard Orphans
Backyard Orphans provides an online orphan care assessment for churches and leadership training and consultation.
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Patch Our Planet
Patch Our Planet provides online curriculum resources to equip your orphan care team in both global and local orphan care.
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All In Orphan Care
All In Orphan Care is a 6-session small group curriculum designed to introduce the theology of orphan care in very accessible ways and to expose the church to take steps to respond.
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Adopted For Life
In this groundbreaking book, Russell Moore presents God’s decision to adopt sinful men and women into His family as a central theme of Christianity. He commends Christian families efforts to adopt as an illustration of the gospel and call upon the entire church to help Christian families in their pursuit of adoption.
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