// Together for Adoption

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, and more time to network with other churches, organizations, and adoptive families. We’re intentionally structuring the conference around the gospel and community.

Mark your calendars and plan on joining us as we consider how the church can best address the global orphan crisis. Conference 2010 will provide in-depth teaching and training on the many ways that churches and families can “defend the orphan.” Details about the conference are forthcoming.

For those of you who missed Conference 2009 in Franklin, TN:

God brought over 650 people together on October 2-3, 2009 so that Jesus could be made much of for the sake of orphans all over the world. There is no way to estimate the number of orphans that will be served in the name of Jesus because of what took place that weekend at Christ Community Church. Each speaker preached the Gospel and its implications for orphan care and earthly adoption with great wisdom, care, and passion. God graciously met with us for our joy and the joy of orphans.

We were especially encouraged by the number of churches that sent people to the conference. One of the churches represented at the conference sent six pastors! God is certainly working to mobilize His people to care for orphans!

Conference audio of the general sessions is now available for free download:

• Dan Cruver, Adoption: Making Outsiders Insiders
• Scotty Smith, The Freedom of Adoption
• Scott Roley, Adoption and the Pursuit of Racial Reconciliation
• Ed Stetzer, The Gospel, Social Justice and the Missional Church
• Michael Easley, Orphan Care and Jesus, the Great Servant of the Poor
• Russell Moore, Adoption and the Renewal of Creation

Here are general session summaries as well some brief video interviews of the speakers:

Session One – Adoption: Outsiders Made Insiders, Dan Cruver
Session Two – The Freedoms of Adoption, Scotty Smith
Session Three – Adoption and the Pursuit of Racial Reconciliation, Scott Roley
Session Four – The Gospel, Social Justice, and the Missional Church, Ed Stetzer
Session Five – Orphan Care and Jesus, the Great Servant of the Poor, Michael Easley
Session Six – Adoption and the Renewal of Creation, Russell Moore

Click on the image below to check out our conference booklet. It will provide you with the opportunity to learn a little about our exhibitors.

Click on the image below to see what breakout sessions we offered: