China’s New Adoption Policy Leaves Children in the Balance

Posted on Sep 10, 2024 in Adoption, children, China, Family, Ideas, International, Orphans

On September 4, the US state department informed adoption service providers and waiting families that the People’s Republic of China (PRC), would “no longer carry out foreign adoption work,” except in a few narrow cases. Several hundred American families have been matched with children in China. Many families were scheduled to bring their children home Read more…

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I Had a Horrific Childhood. I’m Glad I Exist.

Posted on Sep 10, 2024 in Abortion, children, Culture, Family, Personhood, Pro-Life Movement

It is midnight, and my phone is ringing. Blinking the sleep out of my eyes, I roll over to see my older sister’s name flashing across the screen. “Hello?” My sister says nothing at first. She is crying. The sound jolts me awake. “Are you okay?” I ask. Finally, she speaks: “I killed my baby.” Read more…

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China Ends International Adoptions, Leaving Hundreds of Cases in Limbo

Posted on Sep 6, 2024 in Adoption, children, China, Family, International, Orphans

The Chinese government has officially ended its international adoption program, foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning announced Thursday, ending hopes for hundreds of US families who were matched with children before the COVID-19 pandemic but had adoptions put on hold in 2020. Karla Thrasher, senior director of international adoptions at Lifeline Children’s Services based in Birmingham, Read more…

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Public School Can Be a Training Ground for Faith

Posted on Sep 6, 2024 in children, Discipleship, Education, Education, K-12, Homeschooling, Ideas, Parenting, Private Education, Public Education

Depending on your circles, mentioning “public school” may elicit strong reactions. Many Christians in America avidly allege its degeneracy, while many others fiercely defend its merits. And although this debate isn’t new, it has come back to the foreground of our public life in recent years. Last month, for example, a video went around in Read more…

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Christian Formation for the ‘Toolbelt Generation’


Posted on Sep 2, 2024 in children, Church Life, Discipleship, Education, Formation, Higher Education, Parenting, Vocation, Work, Work and Workplace, Youth Ministry

I always assumed my sons would go to college. My husband and I were indelibly formed by our own college years of deep reading, endless discussion, and applying what we’d learned in the classroom to our faith and the world. University life helped us grow toward being “as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as Read more…

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Spanish Book Drive

Posted on Jun 8, 2022 in Bible, Books, children, children's evangelism, disaster relief, donate, donation, Education, Escrito Está, Evangelism, give, help, hispanic ministry, hurricane, It Is Written, it is written missions, kids, library, mission, mission trip, Mission Trips, missions, read, serve, service, spanish, spanish ministry, Updates

 📚 We are collecting Spanish children’s books for our mission trip to Puerto Rico. The school library in Vieques was wiped out by a hurricane, and we would love to give them as many books as we can!  Books must be: 📕 in Spanish 📘 spiritual or educational 📗 for children in grades K-6 📙…