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One Fundraising Miracle After Another
After our home study was approved, we were unsure how we were going to come up with the next phase of costs. But when we received word that we were offered a matching grant through Lifesong and that they'd also help us in our fundraising efforts, our attitude…
From Sister to Mom: A Life Marked by Adoption
A single adoption journey impacts so many lives. Our minds often go to a child who was adopted or parents who brought a child home. But the following letter that was sent to our office recently proves that one life touches many... including a sister. Brigitta's parents' willingness…
Counting Up the Cost of Adoption
Meet Jay and Sarah. Faithful followers of Jesus, fierce adoption advocates, and loving parents. They brought home their oldest home in 2015 with help from a Lifesong matching grant. And they couldn't wait to give him a sibling. But what they expected to be a quick process turned…
Visit Lifesong Haiti Today!
We aren’t all able to hop on a plane and fly across the ocean to visit our team in Haiti, so we brought the Lifesong Haiti team to you. Keep scrolling to take the Haiti Virtual Vision Trip... Welcome to Lifesong Haiti! While you're here, you'll learn some of the…
5 Families Show What Happens When You Support Adoption
Money should never be the reason a child doesn't have a family. But unfortunately, lack of funds is the top reason that only 5% of Christian families have actually adopted, though 38% have considered it. That’s where people like you come in. Because God calls each one of us to…
In the Battle to Adopt…
Guest post from the Stoll family, Lifesong fundraising support recipients. We first entered the adoption process in the midst of deep grief and loss. We'd just returned to the U.S. from serving as missionaries in Ethiopia due to the country's unrest. And we'd just buried my mother-in-law…
Your Longing & The Gospel
Happy New Year! If you rang in 2021 with a heavy heart or a keen sense of the world's brokenness, be encouraged— Our longing points us to the beauty of the Gospel story. As the following Lifesong Family shares, "Just as we waited with purposeful anticipation of the…
The 2020 Year in Review!
What a year. 2020 could have been absolutely devastating for the thousands of children we serve around the world... But God is faithful! He's used gifts from people like you to help hundreds of Christian families adopt, to bring Gospel-centered care to over 16,000 vulnerable kids in 13…
Adoption Changed My Life: Thoughts from a Board Member
Bob Hoerr is a husband, father, grandfather, and has served as Board Chairman & CEO of his family's commercial construction businesses for the past 25 years. He also serves on the Lifesong board of directors. He writes— Nearly 16 years ago, I entered into what has become…
How Reaching Orphans Begins with You
Friend, reaching orphans begins with you. To be sure, caring for orphans, meeting the needs of the vulnerable, and finding families for the fatherless is first and foremost God's work. He initiates and He sustains. But God often accomplishes this work through people like you. Whether you adopt, care,…