Download this Session (PDF) Session 6: Identifying Your Next Steps Participants will review previous sessions and reflect on the implications of their content as it relates to short-term missions impact, purpose, and principles. This session covers guiding principles of short-term missions and explores the importance of helping without hurting in the context of working with vulnerable children. Download this Session (PDF) Session 5: Short-Term Missions Download this Session (PDF) Session 4: Key Strategies for Strengthening Families and Community-Based Care, Part 2Īs a continuation of deepening understanding of F2A key strategies, this session reviews key strategies and allows participants to identify and discuss how strategies are upheld and implemented in three additional stories of partnership from Journeys of Faith. Participants will identify and discuss how strategies are upheld and implemented in two stories of partnership from Journeys of Faith. Using F2A’s Guiding Principles, this session explains F2A’s 12 strategies for strengthening families and community-based care. Download this Session (PDF) Session 3: Key Strategies for Strengthening Families and Community-Based Care, Part I F2A’s Guiding Principles are introduced and discussed. Impact on child development, social relationships and increased risk for later in life are covered as well. This session explores how and why children are separated from family care, with an extensive look at the complexities and the role of poverty. Download this Session (PDF) Session 2: Understanding Separation from Family Care and the Impact of Poverty This session also explores what Scripture says about orphans, and sets the stage for both personal connection and collective support around understanding and responding to orphans. Participants will discuss the image of orphans as well as an overview on the reality of the orphan plight globally. This session serves as an introduction to orphans and vulnerable children, and why Christians are called to engage and respond. Here’s an overview of each session: Session 1: Who are Orphans and Vulnerable Children?

The Journeys of Faith Study Series provides the tools, links to online resources, and information needed to engage participants through discussion, readings, videos, group activities, and prayer. Understanding and Promoting Better Care.Engaging the Church, Principles of Partnership, and Short Term Missions.

Best Practice Strategies in Family and Community Care.

Alternative Care for Children without Parental Care.

The Importance of Family Care and Limitations of Orphanages.

Annotated Bibliography: Key Research on Orphanages and Family Care.

Children, Orphanages, and Families: A Summary of Research.

Transitioning to Family Care for Children.

A Summary of Research to Guide Faith-Based Action.

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