Domestic Adoption
Change One Life- Domestic Adoption
At Lifeline we believe all people are made in the image of God. When an expectant mother chooses domestic adoption for her child, Lifeline helps her choose a family who will care for the child spiritually, emotionally, mentally, and physically, and who will also honor the birth family. …
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…
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…
National Adoption Month — A Biological Sibling’s Perspective on Adoption
By Jenny Riddle On the November 11, 2020 episode of The Defender Podcast, Herbie Newell talked with Boyd Christenberry, son of Kim and Bill Christenberry. Boyd gave his perspective on adoption as a biological child whose family was completed through adoption. Completion,…