Articles
Discipling Children from Trauma Backgrounds
Compiled by Jenny Riddle, with contributions from Traci Newell and Mark Sly When children enter homes from traumatic backgrounds, their lives have already been shaped by circumstances that make brokenness a part of their story. Difficulties children may have faced include medical…
Six Ways to Kick Off Your Stand for Orphans
We also thought the stand was a great way to teach children about orphans and how they can make an impact in the lives of orphans/vulnerable children firsthand.
Meet Lifeline Children’s Services
Lifeline Children’s Services exists to equip the body of Christ to manifest the Gospel to vulnerable children. As a growing ministry, we are currently in 16 states and 25 countries and are looking forward to another 40 years of ministry through crisis…
Words of Encouragement for Dads
Mark Sly serves as the (un)adopted Regional Coordinator for Africa and Eurasia. He is the father of three children and on youth ministry staff for nine years before coming to Lifeline. Parenting. Fatherhood. For Mark Sly, those two words initially wrought fear…
National Foster Care Month: Opening the Doors of Conversation about Birth Families
Compiled by Jenny Riddle with Traci Newell, LBSW, TBRI® Practitioner, Education Specialist & National Program Director for Families Count For foster parents, talking with children in their care about their families may be uncomfortable, particularly when circumstances are challenging. As shepherds of…
Building Bridges
“Education is a matter of building bridges.” Ralph Ellison Recently, one of our Bridge tutors spent some time with a fifteen-year-old girl with Down Syndrome who with tears streaming down her face, asked why she had to been born different? We have…
‘Essence of Adolescents’
“Ugh, teenagers!” “Teens just go brain dead for a little while and then come back.” “It’s all the raging hormones — they act crazy!” “If we can just get through these years, we will be ok.” In the book Brainstorm, Daniel L….
Christ is Sufficient to Carry us on our Mission
In the Old Testament, we see how God provided a way for people to deal with their sin. Once a year, the high priest entered the Holy of Holies, taking the blood spilled from sacrificial animals. The blood meant the death of…
Hell is Real: The Urgency of the Mission on Good Friday
As human beings, we don’t want to believe in Hell. We tend to want to see Heaven as a reality for anyone who is “good” and follows the rules. The world constantly tells us that anyone who isn’t truly “bad” will go…
Mission Kid for Parents
Welcome Parents! Don’t Forget to follow along this week, and ask your kids about the lesson he or she learned today! To watch videos full screen, simply click the square icon in the lower righthand corner.To be able to watch…