Book Giveaway: Launching an Orphans Ministry in Your Church

30 September 2009 | by Josh

As part of the lead-up to the October 17 “Your Church and the Orphan” conference in Simpsonville, SC, our friends at Hope for Orphans have graciously given us 25 copies of Launching an Orphans Ministry in Your Church to give away!

Launching an Orphans Ministry Cover The contest runs today through 9:00pm ET Thursday, October 8th, 2009. We will announce the winners on Friday, October 9th. The winners will be chosen randomly using Random.org.

How to enter:

Leave a comment on this post sharing your thoughts on adoption, either in a theological sense (God’s adoption of us) or the practical sense (our adoption of orphans). This can be a brief or you can pour out your heart!
Blog about this giveaway and Hope for Orphans’ October 17th “Your Church and the Orphan” conference to be held in Simpsonville, SC (please link back to this post).
That’s it. Easy. Now, go comment, blog your post, and you could be a winner!

(Read more about the “Your Church and the Orphan” conference at this blog post.)

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Comment by Lisa Johnson | 2009/10/01 at 00:21:45

This is easy. My husband and I are currently foster parents and about to finalize our first adoption. God has laid on my heart the passion to start an Adoption support group/Bible study. This was recently approved by the Women’s Ministry at our church and has the potential to get very big! God does big things!! I would love to use this as a resource!!
Comment by Melissa | 2009/10/01 at 17:27:02

Thanks so much for this website. I work at an orphanage in Mexico and enjoy reading some of the articles on here when I have free time. Thanks,
Comment by Elisabeth | 2009/10/02 at 12:31:58

I have learned a great deal about God’s commitment and faithfulness to me by being an adoptive Mom. As I do the work required of me as an adoptive Mom, I think about the things God has done to adopt me, that I may be called a child of his. Yesterday I was praying with my three year old adopted daughter. I prayed that she would be adopted, not only by us into our family, but also by God into his family. After the prayer she informed me, she didn’t want to be adopted into God’s family because she already loves our family. I guess I have some explaining to do about the kingdom of God!
Comment by Rosaly | 2009/10/02 at 13:06:11

It is great to read all these comments, We have been fostering for a while but not much luck with adoption but we are waiting for God’s timing on this. It is very encouraging to see you are not alone and it is not crazy to desire to adopt and nurture a child born from your heart. Thanks!
Comment by Lindsey Wheeler | 2009/10/02 at 13:39:36

Chris and I feel like we have been given the greatest gift in the world with our adoption of sweet Eliana! We always knew that we wanted to adopt, but the Lord started our road to adoption through a trip to Guatemala. Now, our passion for adoption grows every single day. We are all about spreading the word and challenging people to get involved!! We are working with a group of people right now on a documentary of Guatemala (www.authentikos.com)….and are also promoting our friends Gwen and Suzanne at 147millionorphans.com. We can’t wait to start another adoption soon!!
Comment by Lindsey S. | 2009/10/06 at 18:40:24

My husband and I have two boys and we believe that we are supposed to adopt. We have been on the State waiting list for almost a year now. We started fostering back in June but it hasn’t gotten us anywhere so far. I even called once to make sure they still had us on the list because I just didn’t understand why our phone wasn’t ringing. I don’t know if God is trying to teach me patience with our adoption but I feel so strongly that I am supposed to be doing SOMETHING. Maybe I am supposed to start an adoption ministry in our area. I pray that God will show me where to go and what to do.