Our family have just come back from an excellent time at Spring Harvest. Here are the 5 highlights for me of the event. 1. Confidence in the Gospel The theme…
Some friends of mine at OH TV made this powerful video to try and encourage more people to consider adoption. There is a real challenge in trying to find…
Had a look for some children’s songs about adoption and sadly there are not many of them are in our current hymnody in the UK. I asked on twitter for…
The very kind people at Saddleback church let me use pastor Rick Warren’s private studio to make a quick video to spread the word about the national consultation on fostering…
This was my liveblogging from the evening plenary session. We heard a very moving story from a couple from Irvine California who were part of the Safe Families initiative which…
There is a real culture of adoption in the USA. In one seminar I sat in at the Summit at Saddleback church I was really moved to hear stories of…
Here are 10 questions from seminar leader Michael Monroe. 1. Are you willing to acknowledge and fully embrace your child’s history, including that which you know and that which you…
I am delighted to tell you about a nationwide initiative that I am working on with Care for the Family and Evangelical Alliance. There is a pressing need in the…
When the boys in my comprehensive school met me they labelled me “Paki”. They never asked me where I was from and never discovered that I am half Sri…
1. Wounded Children, Healing Homes: How traumatised children impact foster and adoptive homes by Jayne E Schooler et al (Very good book written by Christians that helps explain attachment theory…
Today I was invited by the British Association of Adoption and Fostering to be at a consultation with Prime Minister David Cameron to talk about how we see adoption become…
Dear friends, if you live near Oxford please come along to this exciting evening dreaming, talking and thinking about encouraging and supporting Christians to foster and adopt. If you know…
It’s national adoption week and today the Prime Minister came up with a league table to name and shame local authorities who have been particularly slow at placing children. I…
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