This Sunday, Nov. 13, is a special day around the world as churches, communities and organizations celebrate Orphan Sunday. Christ Church is committed to changing lives of children around the world and in our city, especially the children who need it most in our foster care system. While there are several Christ Church families that […]

By Laura Greenwell Orphan ministry, adoption, and foster care are all a huge part of who and I am in Christ and who my family is. We have three adopted children and were foster parents to six children. Our lives have been so touched by this in so many ways. I know not all people are […]

Over 100,000 children are available for adoption in the United States. There are over 330,000 churches in the United States. If not even a third of U.S. churches (not families) responded to our God-given responsibility as the body of Christ to care for the orphan in supporting the adoption of only one child, there would be no children […]

After having breakfast recently with some Christ Church members to talk with Bethany Christian Services of West TN, I began to share the excitement that these members already had about Safe Families for Children, a network of families in many different churches throughout the country who temporarily open their homes to children whose parents are struggling. By establishing a relationship–or […]