Signposts: How Should You Build an Adoption Culture In Your Church?

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Christianity Today, Russell Moore

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 22 April 2016

⏱️ 14 minutes

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One question I get asked frequently is, “How can our local church promote adoption and orphan care?” The reality is that the answer to this question will look different from congregation to congregation. But regardless, there are a handful of principles that every church can build their adoption and orphan care ministry around. In this episode of Signposts I talk about the main things that every church should keep in mind in promoting an adoption culture, and the importance of involving everyone–from 17 to 90–in the church’s ministry. Listen below, and use the links to subscribe to Signposts and receive new episodes automatically when they publish. The post Signposts: How Should You Build an Adoption Culture In Your Church? appeared first on Russell Moore. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:05.8	asked me specifically about orphan care and adoption ministries within their local congregations
1:13.2	and how to do it.
1:14.4	One of the things that I've noticed
1:16.1	is that a lot of people would like to have a program.
1:21.6	Let's just take this, let's put it in a box with some video resources and some
1:28.8	step-by-step guides to building an adoption culture or an orphan care ministry within a local
1:34.4	congregation. I just don't think that works well when it comes to orphan care
1:38.8	ministry and here's why. I think it doesn't work well because orphan care ministry is going to look different
1:46.4	from church to church based upon the particular needs within that church and
1:52.2	within that community and within that community.
1:53.9	And there's not a lot of overlap between the skill sets that you need if what you're
2:01.0	dealing with is mobilizing a church for foster care as opposed to
2:05.9	mobilizing a church that's received a lot of families who are adopting
2:11.0	internationally as opposed to a church that's doing that has a lot of
2:15.4	ministry toward women who are in crisis pregnancy situations.
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