One Ukranian Adoptee's Story

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Webinar: Inside the Adoption Circle

Inside the Adoption Circle Perspecitves. Conversations. Insights   Quick Links Joint Council Website Donate Now Sponsors     New Webinar! January 22nd, 2014  7:00 PM Central Q&A: 8:00 PM      Webinar panel - an adopted person, a birth mom and an adoptive mom - reflects back on their own experiences with adoption and pose questions to each other giving adoptive parents insight into the thoughts and feelings of members of the adoption circle.   Sharing their personal stories, and asking challenging questions of each other, offers an understanding of different experiences to parents who may not be able to ask such questions in their own adoption relationships. Our panel will also answer YOUR questions. Pose your question here.

Matching Grant for CAFO

CAFO does little fundraising.  But we’d love your help with this amazing opportunity through December 31.   A $35,000 matching grant will double every dollar you give for CAFO’s global work!   The vision is simple: the local church in every nation rising as the answer for the orphans in their midst.    It’s happening.  And the entire CAFO community is united to help grow and guide it.   Join us...

Adoption Informational Meetings

 

Are you considering adoption? Not sure where to start? Learn more about adoption and the current opportunities to adopt through Sunny Ridge Family Center. These are free Adoption Information Meetings where you can learn more about adoption and services offered.

There is a great deal to learn about adoption. Come and learn about the many types of children in need of a family, both in Illinois and internationally. You will also learn more about the requirements for adopting, the adoption process, paperwork, length of time, costs, and more.

Register for Meeting

Great Video Story

Check out this wonderful video that shows how a church can take up the cause of the orphan!

Buy a Cookie - Bring Hope for Orphans

We are so excited to let you know that our Cookies For Orphans event with Chick-fil-A© is coming up THIS Friday (December 13)! If you live in Austin, San Antonio, New Braunfels, San Marcos, Lufkin or Bryan Texas, make sure to visit your local Chick-fil-A© When you do, add some cookies to your order! Chick-fil-A© will then donate 100% of their cookie sales to Hope for Orphans! Buy a half-dozen for your family, or buy a tray for your office, small group, or school, and bring more hope to more kids! Contact your local Chick-fil-A© to order your tray early, so they will be warm and ready for you on Friday! These funds go directly to helping us serve every church to reach every orphan! If you do not live in one of these Texas cities but know someone who does, make sure to let them know! After you buy your cookies, make sure to thank our dear friends at Chick-fil-A©—their generosity and yours, (with a little help from some delicious cookies), will help us to serve churches, worldwide, to love and care for orphans! Make sure you post cookie pics with #CookiesForOrphans! Blessings, Hope For Orphans

Book Discussion: The Global

 

The Vulnerable Children’s Ministry

 

Invites you to

 

A Book Discussion

January 22, 2014, 7:30 - 8:30 p.m.

Willow Creek Community Church

67 E. Algonquin Road, South Barrington, IL 60010

 

God calls His people to care for the orphaned and vulnerable children of the world. Many hearts around the world are stirred by this calling, and yet it is hard to know what to do without understanding the issues surrounding the global orphan crisis and without knowing exactly how to get involved.

In Diane Lynn Elliot’s book, The Global Orphan Crisis, she takes her readers on a journey of understanding and a call to action. The book discusses the factors that are contributing to the orphan crisis, the dangers that orphaned children face, and what this crisis looks like in different parts of the world.

Diane then talks about what it looks like to redeem orphaned and vulnerable children. She calls her readers to transformation so that they can then transform the lives of orphaned children around the world. The book contains many practical and real ways to get involved and how to invite others along that journey.

To enhance discussion, please come prepared by writing down your answers in advance to the questions at the end of each chapter.

 

Diane Lynn Elliot

 

Diane is an author, professional photographer, and business administrator.  She has a heart for people and a passion for ministry, specifically with women and children.  She has co-written two youth management books, and has spent many years in the not-for-profit and corporate settings.  Diane and her husband are fellow members of Willow Creek Community Church.

Webinar: Orphan Care Movement Update

 

 

 

		YOU'RE INVITED... The 2014 Orphan Care Movement Update & Investor Report   Wednesday, December 11, 2013  |  2:00 PM (Eastern)        Whether you've invested prayer, funds or passion in the Christian Alliance for Orphans, here’s a special chance for an insider’s view of:   The growth of the adoption & orphan care movement across America The biggest challenges facing the movement The expansion of indigenous movements around the world The impact of your investment & key 2014 priorities of CAFO     . . . The Christian Alliance for Orphans Webinar Series is designed to help individuals like you create and grow effective adoption, foster care and global orphan ministry in local churches.  Each 60-minute webinar is free and will give local advocates access to the knowledge and experience of top Alliance