Adoption Resources

Successful Adoption: A Guide for Christian Families (by Natalie Nichols Gilllespie) provides a comprehensive Christian guide for adoptive families.
Handbook on Thriving as an Adoptive Family: Real-Life Solutions to Common Challenges (by David and Renee Sanford) provides comprehensive, topical, Bible-based solutions for the inevitable challenges after adoption.
Fields of the Fatherless (by C. Thomas Davis) inspires readers to share God’s heart for orphans and offers a broad range of helpful resources and organizations.
Loved by Choice (by Susan Horner) True stories that celebrate adoption and reflect the joys and the difficulties of those touched by adoption from virtually every perspective
My Adopted Child: There’s No One Like You (by Kevin Leman) A read-to-me children’s picture book, My Adopted Child, There’s No One Like You conveys love, acceptance, and a sense of individuality to adopted children.
Adopted for Life: The Priority of Adoption for Christian Families & Churches (by Russell Moore) A stirring call to Christian families and churches to be a people who care for orphans, not just in word, but in deed.
HowtoAdopt.org is a service of Shaohannah’s Hope, the organization founded by Christian musician Steven Curtis Chapman. It provides background information, responses to myths about adoption and practical steps for pursuing adoption.

Life Group – Adults are invited to connect with others at 8:00, 9:20, and 11:00a.m. Visit Bellevue.org/connect for a current list of classes where you will experience biblical teaching, encouraging relationships and fellowship opportunities.
Call Family Ministry to be referred to a family that has been blessed by adoption. (901) 347-5751