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CAFO2023 Full Conference Download
CAFO2023 Full Conference Download
UNHURRIED: LIVING WITH THE LONG VIEWThe fruit of our labor often feels so small and incomplete, even as fresh needs rise before us every day. A deep sense of urgency can dominate us daily. Jesus faced all that we face and more, yet he never ever seemed hurried. He lived always with the long view … Read more
See all resource detailsMission Wise: Scripture, Science, and Serving the World’s Most Vulnerable
Mission Wise: Scripture, Science, and Serving the World’s Most Vulnerable
You want to engage with the work God is doing in the world. We want to help you do so with excellence when it comes to caring for vulnerable children and families. Mission Wise curates today’s best practices and principles to give you clarity and confidence to take the next step forward in your mission … Read more
See all resource detailsEveryone Can Do Something
Everyone Can Do Something
Whether you are launching a new foster care, adoption or orphan care ministry or leading an existing one, Everyone Can Do Something is designed to rally your church around the care of the orphaned and vulnerable in strategic, effective and sustainable ways. You’ll discover the principles you need to take the next best steps for … Read more
See all resource details2023 Pure Religion Project Field Guide
2023 Pure Religion Project Field Guide
Each year since 2004, the Church has celebrated God’s heart for orphaned and vulnerable children on the second Sunday in November. Your field guide to planning and preparing for your Orphan Sunday, Stand Sunday and Pure Religion Sunday events. You’ll find resources, stories, practical ideas and a sample rollout plan to help equip for the … Read more
See all resource detailsChurch Ministry Essentials
Church Ministry Essentials
Church Ministry Essentials is an immersive learning experience that will introduce you to the principles, practices and people you need to take your next best steps forward in foster care, adoption and family support ministry. If you’re a church leader leading a ministry or an organizational leader working to equip churches, you’re in the right place. … Read more
See all resource detailsKnow: Seven Things to Know When Considering Foster Care, Adoption and Global Orphan Care
Know: Seven Things to Know When Considering Foster Care, Adoption and Global Orphan Care
Something has sparked in your heart. you wonder what it might look like to open your life to a child that needs the love and protection of family…or at least to help in some small way. Questions like that are rarely simple. But here are seven key truths for what could become the most remarkable … Read more
Effectively Engaging Churches
Effectively Engaging Churches
The impact of your ministry is largely dependent upon your capacity to form strategic partnerships with churches. You believe the Church is the answer to the problem your organization is trying to solve, but you’re struggling to get the ear of a busy pastor, navigate through the complicated structures of various church ministry departments or … Read more
See all resource detailsThe Foster Care Prayer Guide
The Foster Care Prayer Guide
Jonathan Edwards wrote, “There is no way that Christians, in a private capacity, can do so much to promote the works of God and advance the kingdom of God as by prayer.” The Foster Care Prayer Guide equips you with prayer requests to do just that on behalf of kids and families in your community. … Read more
Launch: Principles to Consider and Common Pitfalls to Avoid when Launching and Leading Ministry
Launch: Principles to Consider and Common Pitfalls to Avoid when Launching and Leading Ministry
Many churches around the country are taking bold, noble and exciting steps towards repsonding to God’s call to care for orphans and vulnerable children in unprecedented ways. While it is an exciting time, it is also a time filled with many questions from church leaders regarding how to launch and lead effective and sustainable orphan … Read more
Why: Articulating a Gospel-Centered, Identity Driven Message for Your Church
Why: Articulating a Gospel-Centered, Identity Driven Message for Your Church
In the flurry of all the things that come with leading and implementing ministries, one of the most critically important yet often overlooked component of ministry leadership is establishing clear and consistent messaging. What are we going to say? How are we going to say it? Why are we going to say it that way? … Read more
Build: Building a Foundational Culture of Care in Your Church
Build: Building a Foundational Culture of Care in Your Church
At the core of our motivation to care for the orphaned and vulnerable is the heart of God demonstrated through the gospel on our behalf. It’s the gospel – the story of Christ interjecting Himself into our brokenness and redeeming us out of it by bringing us into His forever family – which acts ars … Read more
Disciple: Essential Elements of Building a Discipleship Pipeline
Disciple: Essential Elements of Building a Discipleship Pipeline
It’s not an event, it’s a process. It’s the long, sometimes slow and sometimes tumultuous journey of movement – from where we are to where we need or want or hope to be. Discipleship toward a goal or vision doesn’t just happen – it requires intentionality, purpose and planning. Often times when we think of … Read more
Shrink: Three Simple Principles to Help Your Church Shrink the Problem and Embrace the Complex
Shrink: Three Simple Principles to Help Your Church Shrink the Problem and Embrace the Complex
Sometimes the problem feels really big, and our people feel really small. They don’t know where to start, what to do or if they can really make a difference at all in the lives of orphaned and vulnerable children. And if we’re honest, sometimes as leaders we don’t know what to do or where to … Read more
Go: A Wiser Approach to Short-Term Mission Trips
Go: A Wiser Approach to Short-Term Mission Trips
Service-focused travel during short-term missions trips can have the potential for great harm if not wisely led or prepared. These risks can be especially high when visitors seek to serve children, particularly those lacking the protection and connectedness of family. The potential for good that short-term trips have calls for continued refining, correction, and improvement. … Read more
Fostering Trust in Collaboration
Fostering Trust in Collaboration
A sample agreement of commitments for healthy collaboration between ministry partners
See all resource detailsAll In
All In
It was never God’s intent for children to be without a family. This is why Scripture says He assumes the role of father to the fatherless and He sets the lonely in families. This is the heart of God – a good, loving and gracious Father. This is also the basis of His mandate towards … Read more
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