The volume of applications to our grant program this year has been very high and we are rapidly reaching the end of our budgeted funds for the year. Because of this we will cease accepting new adoption grant applications on October 1. We will continue to process and award grants for applications we have received until our budgeted funds are completely exhausted. If we run out of funs for any approved applications, those grants will be awarded as soon as we have funds for 2019. We hope to be refunded for 2019 by the first of the year and will post updates here as soon as news is available.
2018 Grant Program Update
New grants for a new year
New grants for a new year
We are pleased to announce that after having to suspend grant operations due to budget constraints in August 2017, we have been funded for 2018. All applications received last year have been held and grants are being awarded in the order we received them. New grant checks will begin to be mailed out next week and will continue until we exhaust our 2018 funds.
Ministry Opportunities
Ministry Opportunities
We are very happy to announce some opportunities to do ministry in areas where we are supporting orphan care. Our friends at World Orphans are offering Journey Trips in 2015 to Guatemala, Ethiopia, and South Africa. If these deadlines are approaching too quickly, Journey Trips are offered multiple times throughout the year. Here are the links to the upcoming trips:
You can also find more information about Journey Trips and their mission on their website.
Out of Egypt, I Called My Son
The following is a guest blog written by one of our grant families this year, Josh and Kristi Ausbrooks. Caring for the fatherless, loving the unloved, becoming a family, is picture of what God does for each us. Please read the Ausbrooks’ story. Rejoice with them and pray for the other families who are currently in the process of grafting a new branch onto their family tree. We are humbled and blessed to have been a small part of their story and the story that God is doing in countless families around the world. read more
A Good Reminder (Guest Blog)
A Good Reminder (Guest Blog)
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The following is a post that my wife Cassie recently wrote on our family blog, about our son Henry’s fourth birthday. It’s hard to remember life before our trip to Ethiopia to bring him home. It was a nice personal reminder for me of how adoption has changed our lives for the better. Hope you […]
FOREVER FAITHFULL
Hello Everyone! I would like to introduce myself. My name is Martha Edmondson and I am the Director of Mobilization here at Families Outreach. God blessed me with the opportunity to come on staff with Families Outreach back in May and I am so thankful! I am married to a man who loves the LORD and have a beautiful 10-month-old daughter. God continues to prove his faithfulness to me over and over. read more
Grant Program Announcement
Grant Program Announcement
2013 has been a tremendous year for the Families Outreach grant program. We prayed that we would be able to help more couples this year in bringing home their children and this prayer has been answered many times over. We are anticipating at least a sixty percent increase of grants awarded over our 2012 total. We are overwhelmed by how great this growth is and how this program continues to grow.
Unfortunately we are approaching the limit of our grant budget for this year and will cease processing new grants for this year on September 6, 2013. read more
I like adoption movie
I like adoption movie
Occasionally you find something awesome in your Twitter feed in the morning and today was the day for me. Enjoy.
New Film Premiere – I Like Adoption. from ILikeGiving.com on Vimeo.
Why We’re Here
Why We’re Here
Not that you have any reason to listen to my suggestions, but if you’d like to understand why Families Outreach exists, why I (or any other adoptive parent) is so passionate about advocating for adoption and families, read this post, then go and read or watch this. read more
Recent Adoption Discussion
Recent Adoption Discussion
A recent post by Meagan Hill on the Her.meneutics blog at Christianity Today has prompted a new round of adoption debates in the Christian adoption blogosphere.
Hill’s post – Adopting a Kid, Not a Cause, cautions Christians and the church from engaging in adoption as a cause or movement and that it should be more rightly motivated by a desire for children. read more