Schedule
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Tuesday, April 30
8:30am - 4:00pm
Global Leaders Forum
Wednesday, May 1
9:00am - 4:00pm
Pre-Summit Intensives
- Moving Forward: Transitioning, Transforming and Creating New Models of Orphan Care
- Together for Adoption Boot Camp
- Taking it to the Next Level: Adoption & Orphan Church Ministry Intensive
- Global Leaders Forum (day 2)
1:00pm - 5:00pm
Pre-Summit Intensives
- Attachment: Why It Matters
- Alliance Member Forum: Adoption Agency Policies & Practices
4:00pm - 7:30pm
Registration Check-In
Thursday, May 2
7:00am - 9:00am
Registration Check-In
8:45am - 10:30am
General Session
11:00am - 12:00pm
Breakout Sessions I
- Adopting a Photojournalistic Strategy to Share Your Message and Build Your Community
- Building Church Orphan Ministry 101: Launching Your Ministry
- Creating a Healthy Culture of Adoption in Churches
- Encouragement for Weary Orphan Ministry Leaders
- Getting Business Involved in the Cause of the Fatherless
- Helping Without Hurting Part 1: The First Step in Poverty Alleviation
- Local Families and Churches Caring for Children in international Settings
- Multi-Racial Family
- Nurturing the Whole Child
- Older Child Adoption: Do You Have What It Takes?
- Practical Ways to Love and Serve Birthmothers
- So You Want to Change the World?
- Successful Private/Public Relationships
- The Forgotten Part of James 1:27
- Three Step Strategy to Ministering to Street Children
12:00pm - 2:00pm
Lunch
Join lunch-time special features including "oneBIGidea", Exhibit Hall features, and Church Ministry Wellness Center (See Special Features page for more info)
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Breakout Sessions II
- Adopting and Advocating for the Child with HIV
- Biblical Counseling and a Successful Orphan Care Ministry
- Brush to Berries: Creating a Business that Sustains Orphans
- Harnessing Social Media for Good
- Keeping Marriage and Family Strong on the Journey of Adoption
- Launch a Sustainable Mentoring Community For Fatherless Youth in Your Neighborhood
- Ministry is a Family Thing
- Straight Talk from Adult Adoptees
- US Government Action Plan on Children in Adversity
- Vibrant Faith: Winning the Spiritual Battles that Accompany Caring for Orphans
- The Waiting Game: Developing Peer Support for Families Waiting for Foster and Adoption
2:00pm - 3:30pm
Block Breakout Sessions
- Attachment: Parenting With Your Brain in Mind (Part I)
- Helping Without Hurting Part 2: Key Principles for Effective Poverty Alleviation
- How to Design an Effective & Accountable Orphan-Care Program in a Developing Nation
- Regional Orphan Care Alliances – Growth Beyond the Startup
- So You’re Considering Adoption? Five Questions You Need to Ask and Why
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Breakout Sessions III
- Attachment: Parenting With Your Brain in Mind - Part II
- The Biggest Challenges Facing the Orphan Care Movement
- Building Church Orphan Ministry 101: Launching Your Ministry - repeated
- Child Welfare Pilots as a Model for System Change
- Creating Foster to Adoption Ministry in Anti-Adoption Cultures
- Creative Compassion: Using Artistic Gifts to Make a Difference
- The Future of Inter-Country Adoption
- Helping Without Hurting Part 3: Exploring Common Strategies for Poverty Alleviation
- Innovative Adoption Funding Solutions & How the Church Can Respond
- Marketing Transformation
- Movie Screening: STUCK
- Special Needs Adoption: Myths vs. Truth
- Straight Talk from Social Workers
- Teaching, then Engaging, Children in International Orphancare
- The Light of Life: The Church and Orphan Care from the First Century to the Present
5:30pm - 7:00pm
Dinner Break
Add onsite buffet to your online registration or plan on local options
7:00pm - 9:00pm
General Session
Friday, May 3
8:45am - 10:30am
General Session
11:00am - 12:00pm
Breakout Sessions IV
- Becoming a Trauma-Competent Healing Parent
- Building Church Orphan Ministry 201: Adoption
- Building Church Orphan Ministry 201: Foster Care
- Building Church Orphan Ministry 201: Global Orphan Care
- Creative Fundraising for Your Adoption or Ministry
- Effective Faith-Based Partnerships: Models that Work for Children and Families
- Home Educating our Children from the Inside Out…and Sometimes Upside Down
- How Does It Work: Successful Models of Church Orphan Ministry
- Navigating Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
- Navigating the Path of Foster to Adopt: Understanding the Process, Risks, and Blessings that Come via Foster Care
- Orphan Care Adoption and Abortion - Developing a Whole Life Culture
- The Power of Orphan Sunday
- Understanding the Basics of the Global Push Toward Deinstitutionalization
- We Thought It Couldn’t be Done…What Every Church can Do Watching Rwanda
- When Forever Doesn't Mean Forever: Responding to Adoption Disruption
12:00pm - 2:00pm
Lunch
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Breakout Sessions V
- A Place I Didn't Belong: Hope for Adoptive Moms
- ABCs of Orphan Advocacy
- The Benefits and Challenges of Home-Based Orphan Care
- Finding Me
- God is Love: The Nature of the Father and our Identify as His Children
- Growing a church that Mirror's God's Heart for the Orphan
- How Do We Work Together? Key Principles and Practices for Faith Partnerships
- Meltdown
- Q&A Discussion with Randy Alcorn: Orphan Care and Adoption From an Eternal Perspective
- Voices from Foster Care
2:00pm - 3:30pm
Block Breakouts
- Building Trauma Competent Healing Caregivers I
- Growing National Movements
- Human Trafficking Targets – How You can Help Protect Orphans and Children in Foster Care
- Say Yes to Special Needs
- Time to Man Up for the Fatherless
- Working Group: Building a Strategic Plan
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Breakout Sessions VI
- Aging Out: Best Practices in Successful Life Transitions for Older Orphans
- Becoming a Multi-Racial Family (75 minutes)
- Building Trauma Competent Healing Caregivers II
- Changes, Challenges, and Choices - Dealing with the Impacts on the Home
- The Church as an Alternative to Foster Care: How Churches Can Change Lives and Systems Across America
- Discipling and Orphan Care in the Local Church
- Equipping Families to Connect While Correcting
- Faith and Art in Music City (75 minutes)
- Integrating a Vision for Orphan Care with the Life of a Family
- International Orphan Sunday
- Movie Screening: KING’S FAITH
- Navigating School for Special Needs: Homeschooling and in the Public School System
- Orphan Justice in Local Church - Practical Ideas for Any Orphan Ministry
- Restoring the Reputation of the Short Term Mission Trip
- What Happens at 18? Faith-Based Strategies for Serving Youth Aging Out of Foster Care
5:30pm - 7:00pm
Dinner Break
Add onsite buffet to your online registration or plan on local options
7:00pm - 9:00pm
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