**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
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