Orphan Care Ministries


A Helping Hand Adoption Agency

A Helping Hand Adoption Agency is a Christian interdenominational ministry dedicated to serving orphans around the world through adoptions and orphan relief. Since 1995 we have placed over 1700 children from China, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Russia, Guatemala and from our domestic birthparents. We are a non-profit child placing agency licensed in Kentucky and Hague accredited by COA. We are members of the National Council for Adoption and the National Christian Adoption Fellowship.

A Helping Hand provides a full range of services to both adoptive families and birthparents:

- International adoptions
- Domestic infant adoptions
- International home studies and post placement / post adoption supervision
- Domestic home studies and post placement / post adoption supervision
- Birthmother outreach and counseling
- Heritage Tours for families and children adopted from China
- Orphan and street children outreach

Lifesong for Orphans

LSO logo 2“Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless…rescue the weak and needy…” Psalm 82:3-4

Adoption is our ultimate goal in caring for orphan children as it enables them to become a part of God’s perfect plan…a family.

While many Christian couples have the desire and resources to care for a child, initial costs keep many from following God’s call to adopt.

Lifesong financially supports adoptions by offering these innovative adoption funding tools:

Interest Free Loans

The Lifesong Legacy Fund offers interest free loans to help couples overcome the high cost of adoption. As the loans are repaid, new family needs are met…creating a self-perpetuating fund.

• Couples enter into a covenant agreement to repay the loan through manageable monthly or annual payments.

• Couples may utilize the Federal Adoption Tax Credit (of up to $12,150 per child) to support their loan payments.

• Key Strategy — Funds become ’self-perpetuating’, where loan repayments each month are recirculated to help meet current needs of new adopting families.

Matching Grants

Lifesong offers matching grants (range from $2,000-$4,000), which encourage the adopting couple’s church family to financially and prayerfully support the adoption.

• Dollar-for dollar matching grants act as catalysts in raising funds.

• Involving the local church creates a lifelong bond between the church family and the adopted child.

• Key Strategy — Catalytic tool that mobilizes & engages the Body of Christ, leveraging funds to help bridge the financial gap.

Church Adoption Funds

Lifesong helps churches create and launch Church Adoption Funds for their congregation or community. Lifesong helps churches overcome common hurdles, by providing the administration and facilitation of the Church Fund on behalf of the church (at no cost to the church).

Orphan Care

The other strategic initiative is our Orphan Care programs in Ethiopia, Honduras, India, Liberia, Ukraine, and Zambia, where we have come alongside of orphans to love on them, teach job skill training, provide foster parents, mentors, schools and transition homes…helping them to break the cycle of hopelessness….by becoming Christian leaders in their own country.

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Orphan Outreach

The mission of Orphan Outreach is to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ by ministering to orphans around the world by meeting spiritual, physical, emotional and educational needs.

Orphan Outreach serves orphans and children at risk of being orphaned by providing a quality Christian education that prepares them for a fulfilling independent life in their community. Our school model focuses on spiritual development, early intervention, and quality education.

Orphan Outreach connects churches and individuals with ministry opportunities to orphans around the world

Orphan Outreach’s Mission Backpack collection drives provide orphans and children in desperate need with a new backpack and the message that they do not walk alone.

Current programs are in Guatemala, Honduras, India, and Russia with developing programs in several other countries.

We offer churches and individuals opportunities to partner with orphanages and Christian schools on short and long term projects and mission trips.

Every Orphan’s Hope

Every Orphan's HopeEvery Orphan’s Hope works with the indigenous church to defend, comfort, encourage, care fore and pray for orphans. The local church can get involved through orphan sponsorships, which provide life-saving help through food, shelter, education, and healthcare to a child left behind by HIV/AIDS. We build homes to provide orphans with a Christian home with all the provisions needed to live. We offer short-term mission trips to the front lines of God’s orphan rescue mission.