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‘Every home must become a missional family’: Church urged to confront family crises through discipleship
On the sidelines of the All India Congress on Church in Mission (AICOCIM), Dr. P.C. Mathew, founder of Urban India Ministries and global family challenge director for the World Evangelical Alliance, warned that the health of the Indian Church hinges

‘We must not lose the generations’: Gwen De Rozario outlines family discipleship strategy at Asia evangelical forum
Gwen De Rozario, Executive Director of the Family & Children Commission of the Asia Evangelical Alliance (AEA), presented a detailed strategy report at the Asia Evangelical Leadership Forum in Seoul on Friday (June 13), calling on church leaders across the

‘Africa’s future lies in its youth’: Compassion Kenya director calls for urgent action on child welfare at Africa General Assembly
At the 13th AEA General Assembly gathering on May 21, Joel Macharia, Director of Compassion International Kenya, delivered an in-depth speech on the status of children in Africa. In his address, Macharia highlighted the pressing challenges facing children across the

Christ-like families are God’s plan to impact generations
Speaking at a teen conference many years ago in the city of Abu Dhabi, a young girl walked up to me after my sermon and said, “Uncle, what you shared did not make any sense to me.” After a good

Families not facilities: Kenya at crossroads as MPs, churches raise concerns about feasibility of government’s plan to close orphanages
The Kenyan Senate has questioned the government’s ambitious plan to phase out nearly 1,000 children’s homes nationwide urging caution and demanding clarity on the strategy for vulnerable populations. The Senate’s push-back comes amidst divided opinion on the best course of

Christian Alliance for Orphans launches groundbreaking studies on spirituality and child welfare
The Christian Alliance for Orphans (CAFO) Research Cente announced two groundbreaking studies on child welfare research that will examine the impact of spirituality on child welfare leaders and the perspectives of adult biological children from foster, adoptive, and kinship homes. CAFO, headquartered in

Jimmy Moore joins CAFO to strengthen church-oriented orphan care initiatives, explore use technology for training
Jimmy Moore has been appointed director of church strengthening and support at the Christian Alliance for Orphans (CAFO), a McLean, Virginia-based nonprofit uniting 290 organizations and a global network of churches to care for vulnerable children and families. Moore specifically

All of society benefits from healthy marriages.
The Forum Ehe+Familie (FEF) welcomes and supports the proposal by National Councillor Marc Jost [1] to strengthen marriages, partnerships, and couples. Stable relationships significantly enhance quality of life and substantially reduce economic costs. The network partners of Forum Ehe+Familie encounter

Add to the growth of Orphan Sunday: November 10 2024
For the Christian community, every day is a good day to pray for orphaned and vulnerable children. Yet one day on the calendar uniquely reminds us of that invitation—Orphan Sunday, which is being observed on November 10 this year. The

Single-parent and childless families already outnumber ‘traditional families’ in Spain
According to the latest census data in Spain, for the first time the proportion of so-called ‘traditional families’, consisting of two parents and one or more children, is no longer the majority. The sum of childless couples or single-parent families with one or

Orphan ministry leader hopes Chinese believers will step up to care for most vulnerable as China stops international adoptions
China has announced that it will no longer allow children to be sent overseas for adoption, ending a practice that has been in place for over three decades. The policy change stems from the country’s former strict one-child policy, which

Webinar on Missional Families: An Urgent Need to Save Generations
The Lausanne Children and Family Network in collaboration with the World Evangelical Alliance’s Family Challenge and Children’s Network, invites you to a seven-week webinar series on the topic of ‘Missional Family’. The webinars will focus on answering the question of