Same-Sex Couples & Child Placements?
May 10th, 2012
Christianity Today released an article this month entitled, “Should We Stop Child Placement Programs if We’re Required to Work With Same-Sex Couples?” The article shares the views of a theology...
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Searching for Beauty Among Suffering
As I prepare my heart for yet another journey with God, I am stopped by yet another realization of who God is… I am in Lake Forest, California, about to…
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Nurturing Healthy Brains
It is widely recognized that good nutrition plays a huge role in healthy brain development. It’s absence can often be detected in vulnerable children, adding physical trauma to the emotional…
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Summit VIII & Rick Warren’s Tweet
Once a year, a huge number of adoption, foster care and orphan advocates meet at the Christian Alliance for Orphans annual Summit conference. This year, the numbers indicate a gathering…
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“Until We All Come Home” Pre-order at Barnes and Noble
Wow! Our book hasn’t even come out yet, and already there is a price war going on! Now that our book is available for pre-order on Amazon and Barnes and…
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Return to Russia American Mom
The extremely sad and twisted case of American adoptive mom, Torry Ann Hansen returning her then 7-year-old Russian adopted son, Artem, back to the ministry of education of Russia, continues…
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HIV/AIDS Adoption – Selah Twietmeyer Video
HIV/AIDS Infected teen Selah Twietmeyer from Project Hopeful http://www.projecthopeful.org tells how she was adopted from Ethiopia into her family and talks about disclosure. “I am not ashamed and not afraid…
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From Game Show to Orphanages
I LOVE this story. Not much in the news I can say that about, but I found this story heart-warming, inspiring, encouraging, and my list could go on. The story…
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“Until We All Come Home” by Kim de Blecourt
As I pack to return to the writer’s conference I was “discovered” at last year, I’ve been asked by friends and family alike to re-post information regarding our book. Yes,…
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“Until We All Come Home” – Amazon Pre-Order
“When Kim de Blecourt and her husband decided to adopt a child from Ukraine, they knew that the process might be challenging. Nothing, however, could have prepared de Blecourt for the twisted nightmare she would endure.”
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From An Orphan’s View – Slavic’s Story
I had the opportunity to briefly interview a young man from Moldova. Slavic is 25 years old. Slavic is a grown orphan. He was never officially (by U.S. standards) adopted….
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Life After the Institution
Ukraine orphans who have graduated from school, at the age of 15 or 16, and then leave the institution, without family or basic life skills, such as cooking, financial management or realistic employment options.
