The words of an adoptive dad in the video below, “These babies are our challenge…” is the heart of an upcoming adoption seminar NewLife is hosting in Shashemene, Ethiopia. Our orphanage director has met with leaders of evangelical churches asking for their support to...
The transactional component of adoption is stunning when you stop and give it some thought. An orphaned child has no one in the world intimately invested in his life. Without the charity of others, an abandoned baby wouldn’t even survive. And then, with the crack...
The doors to our Joyful Place orphanage have been swinging in and out lately. They swing in when an abandoned baby is brought to our door by the police or other government official, and they swing out when a child is legally adopted and goes home with his or her new...
by Joy Casey I hope everyone working in another country has co-workers as superb as those NewLife Ethiopia has. Abebe has worked alongside me since I ventured to Ethiopia sixteen years ago. He has been a colleague and mentor patiently broadening my understanding of...
Over the summer, classrooms were repaired and painted. The lunchroom was enlarged and now all 60 kindergarten children can eat at the same time. New uniforms were purchased. School supplies provided. Sounds pretty typical for the beginning of an academic school year,...
by Becky Burns Every story begins somewhere but for the abandoned babies at our Joyful Place orphanage, we simply don’t know the details of how their stories began. The orphanage staff have to estimate how old each one is based on developmental and physical signs. ...
