Further Learning

**Please Note: Most of these resources are ones that adoptive/foster families have found helpful in their journey to care for the fatherless. Please view them with discernment.

BOOKS:

Adoption

*Family Life, Welcome Home: 8 Steps to Adoption

Beazely, Jan, The Strength of Mercy: Making a Difference in the World One Child At a Time (Colorado Springs, Co: Waterbrook Press, 1999)

Bentley, Lisa Misraje, Saving Levi: Left to Die…Destined to Live (Colorado Springs, CO: Focus on the Family)

C. Thomas Davis, Fields of the Fatherless (Global Publishing Services, 2002)

Natalie Nichols Gillespie, Successful Adoption: A Guide for Christian Families

Lois Ruskai Melina, The Open Adoption Experience

Gregory C. Keck and Regina M. Kupecky, Adopting the Hurt Child: Hope for Families with Special-needs Kids (Colorado Springs, CO: Piñon Press, 1995).

Gregory C. Keck and Regina M. Kupecky, Parenting the Hurt Child: Helping Adoptive Families Heal and Grow

Michelle Gardner, Adoption as a Ministry, Adoption as a Blessing (Enumclaw, Washington: Pleasant Word, a division of Winepress Publishing, 2003)

Michelle Gardner, After the Dream Comes True (Post-Adoption Support for Christian Families) (Enumclaw, Washington: Pleasant Word, 2004)

Russell Moore, Adopted for Life: The Priority of Adoption for Christian Families and Churches.

Karyn B. Purvis, PhD., David R. Cross, PhD. The Connected Child: For Parents who Have Welcomed Home Children. *There is now a Bible Study to do along with this book.

David and Renee Sanford. Thriving as an Adoptive Family: Real-Life Solutions to Common Challenges.

Jayne E. Schooler, The Whole Life Adoption Book (Colorado Springs, CO: Piñon Press, 1993)

Thomas, Nancy L. When Love Is Not Enough: A Guide to Parenting Children with RAD-Reactive Attachment Disorder, 1997

Welch, Martha, Holding Time: The Breakthrough Program for Happy Mothers and Loving, Self confident Children without Tantrums, Tugs-Of-War, or Sibling Rivalry, 1989.

Fostering/Orphan Care

R.B. Mitchell, Castaway Kid :one man’s search for hope and home Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers, 2007).

Doug Sauder, The One Factor: How One Changes Everything South Florida, 2008

(4kidsofSFL.org).

Parenting

Paul David Tripp, Age of Opportunity: A Biblical Guide to Parenting Teens (New Jersey: P&R Publishing, 1997)

Tedd Tripp, Shepherding a Child’s Heart (Wapwallopen, PA: Shepherd Press, 1995)

Various

Dennis Rainey, God’s Heart for the Orphan DVD

Barbara Rainey, Understanding and Parenting your Adopted Child, Family Life Today Program CD

WEBSITES:

Family Life website, www.familylife.com, “Hope for Orphans”.

Shaohannah’s Hope, www.shaohannahshope.org

updated 05/10