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Short Term Missions and Vulnerable Children: New Guidance from the Christian Alliance for Orphans
Like many things today, opinions on the topic of short-term missions can be fierce. Advocates for short-term missions view the blend of travel-and-service as transformative, both for those who go...
4 Take-Aways from an Ugly Story
The Times of London recently released an article I’d consider essential reading for any person desiring to engage deep needs in our world’s most broken places. “How the Global Aid...
What Matters Most? A CAFO2018 Manifesto
The great blessing of our era is also its great curse: boundless choices. Manifesto? Sounds grandiose, and we're not much for that here. But the depth of the problem calls...
Research Finds Significant Adoption & Foster Care Engagement in US Churches
Lifeway Research last week released findings of new research on American churches with the headline, “Adoption, Foster Care Commonplace in Churches.” The research found that about 4 in 10 Protestant...
Building an “Everyone Can Do Something” Culture at Your Church
The goal of your church is not simply to start a peripheral ministry a few are involved in; it’s to establish a foundation culture of caring for orphaned and vulnerable...
Eight Major Trends in the Christian Orphan Care Movement 2017
When it comes to issues affecting vulnerable children, 2017 was anything but static. Strong currents left a mark on adoption, foster care and global orphan care – both within the...
