We look forward to a powerful time of encouragement through learning together and networking, plus a special Friday night worship concert with Brian Doerksen.

Speakers include: Dr. Russell Moore, Bryan Lorrits, Elizabeth Styffe, Phil Calloway, & Jason Kovacs.

Register here.

Cost: $99 for the next 100 registrations.

Sponsored by ABBA Canada, Above and Beyond Ministries, A Home for Every Child and Focus on the Family Canada

Congressman Braley’s bill is an important first step in making this financial help available to families into the future and therefore help many more children into Christian homes. For most families the financial cost of adoption is the number one hurdle to moving forward. We have seen the Tax Credit serve as a catalyst to many families taking the step of faith in adoption and hope to see it continue.

Will you join us in advocating on behalf of orphaned and vulnerable children by contacting your member of Congress to urge them to vote “YES” on the Making Adoption Affordable Act?

You can find the contact information for your Representative by clicking HERE.

ABBA Fund assisted Phillip and Charrissa with an interest free loan from one of our funds in late October 2010.  They had been diligent in their monthly repayments, and have just sent in their final pay-off check!  What’s so amazing is that money will be going right back out to another family in need! We are so thankful for this family’s diligent stewardship, and look forward to seeing how the Lord works with this money to once again bring another child home to his or her loving family!

This loan helped the couple bring home their beautiful daughter and handsome son from Ukraine. From the note they included with their lovely pictures:

Thank you so very much for helping us bring Max and Ivanna home! It has been such a blessing.  Ivanna weighed 20 lbs at 5 years old, and now is 38 lbs and has grown 7″.  Max was just months from being transferred to an insane asylum – he is now a beloved son, brother, cousin, etc.

Ivanna

Max

Phillip, Charrissa & their BEAUTIFUL family!

Thank you for sharing Phillip and Charrissa!  If you’d like to find out more about ABBA Fund’s interest free loan program, check out our website for more information.   If you feel led to make a donation to help bring more children like Max and Ivanna home to their forever families, please visit here for more information.

October Baby is an inspiring story about crisis pregnancy, choosing life, the adoption option, and the reality of life for children from hard places…don’t miss it!

They have done a masterful job handling the tough topics of abortion and all those it affects. Miscarriage, adoption, and even purity are each handled with gracefulness and with the core gospel message of forgiveness. It is very powerful! Be sure to watch Shari Rigby’s personal testimony and the other resources on the movies website.

Let’s fill every seat this opening weekend and send a message that every life is beautiful and that we each have a God-given purpose.

Check here to see if it is playing in a theater near you.

ABBA Fund will be represented along with many other Christian orphan care organizations. Participation is open to anyone interested in God’s calling for us to care for the orphan.

In addition to more than eighty breakout sessions, speakers include Francis Chan, Dennis Rainey, Rick Warren, Russell Moore, Dr. Karyn Purvis, and Jedd Medefind, the President of the Alliance. Steven Curtis Chapman, Geoff Moore and other musicians will also minister through stories and music.

If you can’t attend, continue to follow ABBA Fund on this blog, Facebook and Twitter to following the Summit happenings. More information about conference registration, venue and schedule can be found on the Summit VII website.

This conference will provide valuable information and encouragement as you and your church care for orphans. There will be two breakout sessions and lunch is included with your registration.

ABBA Fund will be represented by Dwain Gullion and representatives from other organizations will be there to encourage and serve. Click here for more information and to register and we hope to see you there!

Is ABBA Fund a ministry that  has captured your heart? Here are some quick and easy steps you can take help us:

VOTE…and then VOTE AGAIN!

If you have not voted yet, please visit the ABBA Fund’s Giving of Life webpage.  There you will find the VOTE button and that’s all it takes – just one click of a mouse!

Why stop there? Did you know you could get TWO extra votes? All you have to do is register an account here.

SPREAD THE WORD!

 The best form of communication is through word of mouth, so share with your friends, family, neighbors, and co-workers where to go and what to do.   You can also share the link http://givingoflife.com/browse/abba_fund/on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and your Blog!  Let’s make this viral!

A big thank you to all those supporters who have voted for ABBA Fund and encouraged friends and family to vote also! We are so grateful to you for helping us partner with Christian couples on their adoption journey!

On Saturday, November 12th, at Park Community Church,  Together for Adoption Chicago is offering a one-day event on regional adoption, fostercare, and global orphan care.  Our hope is that you’ll leave with a unique sense of God’s adopting love for you and a heart and desire to love and care for the orphan.

Speakers include Dr. Russell Moore, Jason Kovacs, and numerous breakout presenters on orphancare, adoption, and fostercare.

That is why we created a free study guide. Each section walks through the chapters of the book with questions for discussion and concludes with quotations for meditation. The aim is to grow deeper in understanding and awe of our adoption in Christ while moving towards the outward implications on our lives.

We also encourage you to check out our orphan care and adoption resource page for suggestions on practical ways your church or small group can care for the orphan.