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    Becoming Home: Lead the Way in Solving the Orphan Crisis
    Becoming Home: Lead the Way in Solving the Orphan Crisis
    Becoming Home: Lead the Way in Solving the Orphan Crisis
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    Becoming Home: Lead the Way in Solving the Orphan Crisis

    By Barna Group and Jedd Medefind

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    Caring for orphans makes grace touchable. When Christians choose to adopt, foster, mentor or support care for orphans around the world, it reveals God's true character to the world like nothing else we can do. This softcover book unpacks specific steps that you can take to care for orphans in distress.
    Some of these steps are “big” choices like fostering or adopting; some are smaller choices like supporting work abroad or mentoring a foster youth. But all have the impact of revealing God’s love to someone who wants to be home for good.
    Join Jedd Medefind, president of the Christian Alliance for Orphans (CAFO), as he reveals the profound sense that deep, sustaining love for orphans springs not from duty, guilt or even idealism, but foremost as a response to the way we've first been loved by God.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherZondervan
    Release dateJan 7, 2014
    ISBN9780310433507
    Becoming Home: Lead the Way in Solving the Orphan Crisis

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      Becoming Home - Barna Group

      WHY YOU NEED FRAMES

      These days, you probably find yourself with less time than ever.

      Everything seems like it’s moving at a faster pace — ​except your ability to keep up.

      Somehow, you are weighed down with more obligations than you have ever had before.

      Life feels more complicated. More complex.

      If you’re like most people, you probably have lots of questions about how to live a life that matters. You feel as though you have more to learn than can possibly be learned. But with smaller chunks of time and more sources of information than ever before, where can you turn for real insight and livable wisdom?

      Barna Group has produced this series to examine the complicated issues of life and to help you live more meaningfully. We call it FRAMES — ​like a good set of eyeglasses that help you see the world more clearly . . . or a work of art perfectly hung that invites you to look more closely . . . or a building’s skeleton, the part that is most essential to its structure.

      The FRAMES Season 1 collection provides thoughtful and concise, data-driven and visually appealing insights for anyone who wants a more faith-driven and fulfilling life. In each FRAME we couple new cultural analysis from our team at Barna with an essay from leading voices in the field, providing information and ideas for you to digest in a more easily consumed number of words.

      After all, it’s a fast-paced world, full of words and images vying for your attention. Most of us have a number of half-read or read someday books on our shelves. But each FRAME aims to give you the essential information and real-life application behind one of today’s most crucial trends in less than one-quarter the length of most books. These are big ideas in small books — ​designed so you truly can read less but know more. And the infographics and ideas in this FRAME are intended for share-ability. So read it, then find someone to frame with these ideas, and keep the conversation going (see Share This Frame on page 88).

      Furthermore, each FRAME brings a distinctly Christian point of view to today’s trends. In times of uncertainty, people look for guides. And we believe the Christian community is trying to make sense of the dramatic social changes happening around us.

      Over the past thirty years, Barna Group has built a reputation as a trusted analyst of religion and culture. We offer cultural discernment for the Christian community by thoughtful analysts who care enough to tell the truth about what’s really happening in today’s society.

      So sit back, but not for long. With FRAMES we invite you to read less and know more.

      DAVID KINNAMAN

      FRAMES, executive producer

      president / Barna Group

      ROXANNE STONE

      FRAMES, general editor

      vice president / Barna Group

      Learn more at www.barnaframes.com.

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      BEFORE YOU READ

      • When you hear loving orphans, what comes to mind?

      • Have you ever considered adoption or foster care? What were some of the factors that went into your decision whether or not to follow through with it?

      • Why do you think Scripture places a particular emphasis on God’s love for the orphan?

      • Even if your family didn’t adopt or foster a child, what are other ways you imagine you could care for orphans?

      • When have you seen adoption or orphan care go wrong? What are some fears or negative perceptions you have about it?

      • How does your church support orphan care — ​through services, support for adoptive or fostering families, or in other ways?

      • What has caused you to be interested in this topic and this book? What has God placed in your heart that draws you to adoption, fostering, or orphan care?

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      Adoption, foster care and other ways of aiding vulnerable children represent vital engagement with a critical social justice need. But they also offer a rich theological expression of our relationship with God. So it only makes sense that Christians would be the first to champion the cause of orphans around the globe.

      Our FRAMES research shows Christians, in fact, are deeply engaged in this issue. If you’re reading this book, you are probably one of those people who are making a difference. Maybe you’re an

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