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Open to post-adoptive couples. As always, please feel free to invite friends or family members, and bring a snack to share if you feel hungry! We would love to have Dads join us, too!  Child care is not available.

Contact: Kimber Graves/Tera Melber [phone: 812-246-2261; gravesfam5@insightbb.com; tmelber@highview.org ] for more information.

Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2010-03-09

This informative seminar will help get you started by addressing the many questions regarding adoption and how to navigate through the adoption process.  Adoption professionals and adoptive parents will hold sixteen workshops that will include International, Foster, Domestic, and Embryo Adoptions.  Additional workshops to help prepare the process are special needs, financial considerations, adoption myths and realities and more.

Guest speakers include Randy Stinson of Southern Baptist Seminary, John Schechter of 4Kids South Florida, Dr. Mike Howard of U of L International Adoption Program.

A light breakfast and lunch will be served.  Walk-ups are welcome but to assure we will have enough meals it would be best to register by contacting Kim Dunn at (502) 253-8075 or at kdunn@secc.org. Click HERE for additional information.

This is an initiative/partnership with LOCI and the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services, where LOCI is coordinating with 12-15 churches in Louisville and Southern Indiana.

Our goal is to connect Christian women with foster teens who are pregnant.  The desire is to see Christian women coming alongside and mentoring these young pregnant teens.

Let them know you are coming by filling out this reservation. See their website for more details.

Right in our own backyard, Southern Seminary is hosting a conference promoting education about the needs of, as well as the practice of caring for, orphans.

“You may be wondering whether this will be a conference about the doctrine of adoption or “real” adoption. Well, one of the things that we’ll be discussing is the fact that you can’t talk about the one without talking about the other. Also, it is not as though we master one aspect and then move to the other—from the vertical to the horizontal or the other way around. That’s not the picture God has embedded in his creation work.

“The Bible tells us that human families are reflective of an eternal fatherhood (Eph. 3:14-15). We know, then, what human fatherhood ought to look like on the basis of how Father God behaves toward us. But the reverse is also true. We see something of the way our God is fatherly toward us through our relationships with our own human fathers. And so Jesus tells us that in our human father’s provision and discipline we get a glimpse of God’s active love for us (Matt. 7:9-11; cf. Heb. 12:5-7). The same is at work in adoption.

“So we’ve invited a number of great speakers to “Adopting for Life” who will seek to equip us to create a culture of adoption in our families and churches. We’ll be answering questions such as, “What does adoption have to do with the Great Commission?”, “How can I pay for adoption?”, and “How can we start an adoption ministry in my church?”—along with so many others.

Go to this LINK to register.

COST: $10/person
DINNER: Open snack bar at cost

RSVP: 502.235.8682, smareligne@gmail.com

Unikids is a not-for-profit organization that collaborates with area schools and parents to provide school supplies to students in developing countries. Louisville area students and parents donate new and gently used school supplies at the end of the school year where Unikids sorts, packs, transport, and distribute to students in developing countries. The proceeds from this event will go towards the cost of transporting school supplies to Ethiopia. We thank you for your patronage.  – Senait Mareligne, Founder, UniKids
Start Time: 6:00 pm
Date: 2010-02-24
End Time: 8:00 pm

The class will cover God’s heart for adoption, as well as the basics of:

• home studies
• immigration
• domestic adoptions
• international adoptions
• foster to adopt adoptions
• embryo adoptions

Class is free. Certificate given to those attending that may count for Hague accreditation. Contact your agency.

Location: Highview Baptist Church, 7711 Fegenbush Lane – Room 212, Louisville, KY

Dates: Sundays: Feb. 28, Mar. 7, Mar. 14, Mar. 21, Mar. 28, 2010

Time: 5:30-7:00 p.m.

Contact: Tera Melber (tmelber@highview.org) for more information.

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Maridel is also the director of The MICAH Fund. A ministry of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, The Minority Infant Child Adoption Help Fund strives to make adoption financially possible for Christian families. Maridel uses her personal life experiences as a platform to not only advocate for adoption, but also to communicate the message of God’s redeeming love. Some of her past speaking topics include “Orphan Care Ministry in the Church” and “Transracial Adoption.”

Maridel will share her amazing testimony and will be available for a Q/A session. You won’t want to miss it!

Start Time: 7:00 pm
Date: 2010-02-25
End Time: 9:00 pm