CHRISTIAN ALLIANCE FOR ORPHANS
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Building Local Capacity through Short Term Missions
It’s mid-summer in the US, and that means hundreds, if not thousands, of Christians are departing and returning from short-term missions around the world. Many of these teams visit orphans...
Happy Independence Day! Or is it?
Throughout their young lives, we prepare our children for independence. From a young age, we teach them to be careful around strangers, look both ways before crossing the street, and...
Finding Your Something in Foster Care
My brother-in-law and I live in the same town. Attend the same church. Eat at the same restaurants. Play on the same softball team, hang out at the same family...
Why Sabbatical? Plunging into Two Fallow Months
My heart is full of gratitude as I plunge today into a two-month Sabbatical. This time comes as an immense gift. I pray it will be rich – perhaps in...
Seven Vital Gift Habits: What Can We Do To Grow Down?
A central theme of CAFO2016 was growing down before upward. (See the talk, “Growing Down.”) It's fair to ask, why would this matter for people already so committed to justice...
Is Your First Desire to Grow Upward…Or Down?
The CAFO2016 talk “Growing Down” explores why it is that, if we hope to persevere in long journeys of justice and mercy, we must grow down before we grow upward....