US Orphan Care

Breaking the Slumber: Offering Rest

There are a number of non-profit organizations dedicated to the welfare of children. Sleepyhead Beds is one of them. This organization exists to serve the children of the Kansas City metropolitan area and has delivered over 5,000 gently used, […]

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I Pray for the Light

Stories are beginning to emerge. Stories of needs being met, thankfulness growing in the heart of man, and the Lord being glorified.
It started with a decision. A commitment, really, to understand and to choose to assume the burdens of […]

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What’s in a bar chart? More families being helped by the church.

All organizations like to show positive-performance trends.  These upward-sloping charts sometimes indicate increasing sales or rising profits to reassure current investors and impress potential new ones.  This Care Portal bar chart, however, represents something a little different: more local […]

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Bringing me home

The Care Portal is empowering local churches and agencies to establish a culture of Church Centered Child Welfare. It combines technology with grassroots leadership to engage, connect, and equip local churches to meet a full range of child welfare […]

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Better than a Basket

Around the world, babies sleep in all kinds of places. Moms in Africa use wraps to strap little ones to their backs for hours. Closer to home, little droolers sometimes catch a nap while hanging like a cluster of […]

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If only we had known vs. Once we knew

Last month, a single mom was struggling to pay the bills.  With five children in the home, this was nothing new.  Working hard to make sure there is a little money at the end of month is her normal.  […]

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Moving Buildings, Moving Mountains

In the video below, Jason Weber, a good friend and Christian Alliance for Orphans’ National Director for Foster Care Initiatives tells an amazing true story about a group of people in rural Nebraska who accomplished something together they could […]

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Jesus leading in the Sending Academy

Sending Academy Update:
We are wrapping up week four of our first Sending Academy class. God is moving! We’ve seen walls start to crumble, emotional highs and lows, and Jesus leading in all of it. Local faith leaders and business […]

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New year, new opportunities at the Sending Academy

It’s a new year. For a lot of people, 2015 will mean new gym memberships, welcoming new family members–through births and adoptions or weddings–family vacations, graduations, and a bunch of new memories. But for some young adults in Kansas […]

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100 Reasons not to Foster or Adopt

“There are 100 reasons not to foster or adopt,”John Moore said Saturday, raising the Bible in his hand. “The only problem is that none of them can be found in this book.”
He was right, and 570 people from 170 […]

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