// Together for Adoption

Churches all across the country are embracing the ministry of orphan care and the miracle of adoption. God continues to raise up churches that are committed to James 1:27 ministry from a gospel-driven perspective. When it’s the gospel that’s driving a church-centered movement like this, that’s a recipe for long-term, life-changing engagement for the good [...]

Together for Adoption Conference 2010 will be October 1-2, 2010, in Austin, Texas, hosted by The Austin Stone Community Church. Our conference theme is “The Gospel, the Church, and the Global Orphan Crisis.” Lord willing, the 2010 conference will be our largest and most helpful conference yet, with gospel-saturated general sessions, longer breakout sessions, [...]

Adopting For Life Conference- Friday & Saturday, February 26-27th 2010 from Southern Seminary on Vimeo.

On February 26-27, 2010, Southern Seminary is hosting a conference on adoption entitled, “Adopting for Life.” They have put together a great list of general session and breakout session speakers.
Here are seven reasons why you should seriously consider attending:
Vertical adoption was invented before there was an earth for man to walk on. According to [...]

I have the privilege of doing a breakout session at the Adopting for Life conference this February 26-27 at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Russell Moore, David Platt, and Jedd Medefind are the general session speakers.
One of my main passions is to address the global orphan crisis by looking at Scripture’s teaching on adoption through [...]

[This post was originally written for Desiring God's blog]
When James call us “to visit orphans and widows in their affliction,” he’s calling us to make much of Jesus. For the Christian, making much of Jesus and visiting orphans are not two separate calls.
The relationship between making much of Jesus and visiting orphans in their affliction [...]

We are just a month away from the conference and would love help getting the word out! Below is a bulletin blurb that you can use for your church. Feel free to send this to your favorite church secretary/administrator. Maybe include a thank you note for all they do! : ) Or if you are [...]

We are close to finalizing our list of breakout sessions for Conference 2009 in Franklin, TN (Oct. 2-3). The list below contains most of the breakouts that we will be offering. Once we announce that our list is complete, you will register for breakouts via e-mail.
There will be four breakout session blocks (see [...]

Summit V: Final Session with Dr. Tony Evans

General Session with Elizabeth Styffee, Peru Orphanage Director Mariela Clark

General Session with Dr. Russell Moore & Musical Guest Meredith Andrews

General Session with Dennis Rainey & Rob Mitchel

Together for Adoption was given the privilege of live-blogging Christian Alliance for Orphans Summit V on April 30-May 1.
Visit the links below to read each session’s notes:

General Session with Dennis Rainey and Rob Mitchell
General Session with Russell Moore
General Session with Elizabeth Styffe and Mariela Clark
General Session with Dr. Tony Evans

Check out “The Forgotten Part of [...]

You can register for the Conference 2009 here.

Jason Kovacs will be representing both ABBA Fund and Together for Adoption next week at The Gospel Coalition 2009 National Conference. If you are going to be there, make sure you introduce yourself to Jason. You’ll find him standing next to the green Together for Adoption banner (right).
Also, click on the banner to the right [...]

We are pleased to announce that registration for Together for Adoption Conference 2009 is now open. Click here to register.

General Session Speakers and Topics:
Michael Easley, Topic: Orphan Care and Jesus, the Great Servant of the Poor
Michael Easley recently joined the pastoral staff of Fellowship Bible Church (Nashville, TN) as a teaching pastor (read his church bio). Dr. [...]

In addition to six general sessions, Together for Adoption Conference 2009 will have fourteen workshops. Here are several of the workshops we will be offering:
Moving from Success to Significance…becoming Orphan Advocates, Andy Lehman, LifeSong for Orphans – Many Christians today have great experience, expertise, and energy to serve the orphans and fatherless. This [...]

Greg Fields presented a session entitled “Welcomed In: A Trinitarian Approach to Adoption” at the 2008 Tapestry Adoption & Foster Care Conference. Let me encourage you to  listen to the audio recording of this excellent session.  You can also download and print the outline.
Greg will be presenting a version of this talk as a breakout [...]

We are pleased to announce that the next Together for Adoption (T4A) conference will be held at Christ Community Church (Franklin, TN) on October 2-3, 2009.
The uniqueness of T4A’s conferences is that they focus primarily on vertical adoption (i.e., God adoptingus in Christ), with a secondary and necessary focus on its profound implications for orphan [...]