Childhood lemonade stand spurs nationwide funding program for orphans
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (BP) – At 10 years old, Caleb Newell considered why the hundreds of babies he and his family visited in a Chinese orphanage weren’t crying. Perhaps they were all cried out.
Send Relief consultant advocates orphan care reform
NAIVASHA, Kenya (BP) – Kristen Lowry discovered her calling to minister to orphans and vulnerable children as a Journeyman to Kenya for the International Mission Board, but she quickly noticed a need for strategy reform.
More churchgoers hear encouragement to adopt, provide foster care
BRENTWOOD, Tenn. (BP) – More pastors are encouraging members to adopt and provide foster care at a time when adoptions have declined in the U.S.
Foster care needs families supporting families
LOGANVILLE, Ga. (BP) – There are around 12,000 foster children in Georgia alone, said Wayne Naugle, and fewer than 4,600 available homes to take them in. Those are children where neither the math nor the odds are in their favor.
Orphans forgotten, untracked, likely abused in Russia’s war on Ukraine
ODESSA, Ukraine (BP) – Russia’s ongoing war on Ukraine has added more children to an initial count of 100,000 Ukrainian orphans at greater risk of abduction, sex trafficking, criminal adoption and long-term trauma, a leader in Ukrainian orphan care told Baptist Press.
Maryland pastor reflects on adopting special needs daughter amid Ukraine war
BRUNSWICK, Md. (BP) – When looking back on his family’s journey to adopt their 6-year-old daughter Bridget (“Brizzy”) from Ukraine in the midst of war last spring, Maryland pastor Phil Graves described the journey as “improbable.”
FIRST-PERSON: 5 misconceptions surrounding adoption
WASHINGTON, D.C. (BP) – November is National Adoption Month – a time where we raise awareness for children who are waiting for forever families, and celebrate families who have welcomed children home through adoption.
Healing from trauma can take ‘years of showing up’
ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP) – About five years ago, Lynnette Ezell and a friend walked into a north Georgia Department of Family Services office bearing diapers.
Churches vital in helping vulnerable children, Send Relief advocate says
NASHVILLE (BP) – The task can seem daunting. Most estimates put the number of children and teens in foster care at 400,000 at any given time.
Adoption leads families through process of brokenness to healing
NASHVILLE (BP) – Loving others is often a way to learn about God’s love for us. God has used adoption in the lives of two influential families in the SBC to teach about His love for them and how to love others. The parents of both families shared parts of their stories in an email interview with Baptist Press.
