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Handbook on Thriving as an Adoptive Family
Real-Life Solutions to Common Challenges
David & Renee Sanford
Adoption is a high calling from God, and the Christian home is primary soil for planting seeds of faith. But how will post-adoption challenges affect this growth? Most agencies do not prepare you for unexpected challenges like an adopted child fighting with his new siblings, not wanting to be touched or showing signs of reactive attachment disorder (RAD). Packed with practical advice, ideas and resources, this distinctively Christian book is the only parenting resource that provides comprehensive, topical, Bible-based solutions for the inevitable challenges after adoption.
 NEW! Wrapping Around Adoptive Families
How to Provide Support to Those Called to Adopt
There are many different ways to minister to God's orphan children and to the adoptive families that have welcomed these children home. This booklet from Focus on the Family makes it clear that struggling adoptive families need their church families to support them during times of trials. While the suggestions in this booklet may not apply to all situations, they represent a general "cry of the heart" of adoptive families who welcomed home an emotionally wounded or struggling child. The goal is to provide practical guidance for churches seeking effective ways to support adoptive families.  
 The Connected Child
For Parents Who Have Welcomed Children
Karyn B. Purvis, Ph.D., David R. Cross, Ph.D., Wendy Lyons Sunshine
The adoption of a child is always a joyous moment in the life of a family. Some adoptions, though, present unique challenges. Welcoming these children into your family—and addressing their special needs—requires care, consideration, and compassion. Written by two research psychologists specializing in adoption and attachment, The Connected Child will help you:
- Build bonds of affection and trust with your adopted child
- Effectively deal with any learning or behavioral disorders
- Discipline your child with love without making him or her feel threatened
Karyn B. Purvis, Ph.D., is director of Texas Christian University’s Institute of Child Development, which hosts the Adoption Project and its Hope Connection camp.
David R. Cross, Ph.D., is associate director of TCU’s Institute of Child Development and a professor in TCU’s psychology department.
 Your Guide to Adoption
Breaks Down the Process of Adoption into Manageable Steps
This handy brochure created by the Focus on the Family Orphan Care Initiative is designed to help those who are interested in foster care adoption navigate the process with step-by-step goals.
 Fields of the Fatherless
C. Thomas Davis
Tom Davis shows you how to reach out to a special group of people who are most in need—and who the Bible reveals are most on God's heart . . . the orphan, the widow and the alien. You can know the purpose and joy that comes when you work side by side with God.
 Successful Adoption
A Guide For Christian Families
Natalie Nichols Gillespie
Have you felt there's an empty place in your family, but the process of adoption seemed too daunting? Find answers to demystify adoption and discover if it's right for your family, how to pay for it, where to find the right agency and how to make sense of the paperwork. It's just a few of the issues covered at length in this essential guidebook for bringing a little one to your doorstep.
 Small Town, Big Miracle
How Love Came to the Least of These
Bishop W. C. Martin with John Fornof
This gut-wrenching, heart-affirming book tells the tale of the families of Bennett Chapel who adopted 72 of the toughest kids in the foster care system and changed their lives forever. One church, 72 children. This is their story—a story of the power of redemption and love that will move and inspire you.
 Finding Home
An Imperfect Path to Faith and Family
Jim Daly & Bob DeMoss
Be inspired by the incredible life story of Jim Daly, President and CEO of Focus on the Family. See how God took a young man from a shattered family and transformed him into the leader of one of today's most recognized and effective family ministries.
 Castaway Kid
One Man's Search for Hope and Home
R.B. Mitchell
What happens when God gets hold of a hopeless past? Castaway Kid is the true story of Rob Mitchell, an orphan whose life took a dramatic turn toward a future more promising than he ever imagined. Abandoned by his family when he was just a boy, Rob spent many years feeling angry, rejected and alone. But God had a different plan. See how God can transform life's most discouraging circumstances into the adventure of a lifetime.
 Launching an Orphans Ministry in Your Church
Jason Weber
Do you ever wish your church could have a ministry to orphans, but you don't know how to start? With this easy step-by-step guide, you are given the principles and practical tools needed to launch an effective church orphans ministry. This guide includes a vision-casting DVD hosted by FamilyLife President, Dennis Rainey that will introduce you and your church's leaders to existing church orphans ministries around the country.
To Find more adoption and orphan care related resources, visit the Full Resources Page.
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