TGFA 2012
2012 national conference includes 60 plus breakout session topics taught by respected leaders from orphan prevention, adoption, global orphan and foster care organizations and ministries. THIS INCLUDES VERMON AND DENNAE PIERRE! Keep them in prayer over the next 2 days of the conference and plan on attending one soon! Check out the sessions the Pierres are teaching ...
Together for Adoption 2012 Atlanta (Trailer 1) from Together for Adoption on Vimeo.
How to Be a Terrible Foster Parent (Dennae Pierre, Educational Coordinator, Together for Adoption) – Christians can make foster care a terrible experience for the children in care, the systems involved, and their own families. Dennae will highlight potential pitfalls that many foster parents find themselves in. It is easy to approach foster-care selfishly instead of using it as a tool to wonderfully speak and display the gospel to all who are involved. We can start with good intentions, but quickly become self-focused. Only a proper perspective of the gospel will help us be foster parents that selflessly spread the good news of Christ and joyfully endure the trials that come with the fostering journey.
Adopting Transracially and the Theology of Adoption (Vermon Pierre, Lead Pastor, Roosevelt Community Church) – There are two ways we tend approach trans-racial adoption. We can over-emphasize race and live in turmoil, afraid we aren’t doing enough to honor our child’s ethnic heritage or we can de-emphasize race and act as though it were completely unimportant now that they are in our family. The gospel shows us something different. Join Vermon as he shares his own experience growing up in various cultures and the importance of our families’ identity being rooted in Christ as both existing family and new adopted child, adapt, in order to make one new family.
Teaching Your Children to Suffer Well (Dennae Pierre, Together for Adoption) – In the therapeutic world we live in, we easily toss around words like grieving, suffering, and loss as though they are cancer to be dispelled from our bodies. This workshop will look at the importance of raising our children to live without fear of suffering. We will take a look at a biblical perspective of suffering and talk about practical ways to teach our children to live out their stories within the context of all that is happening throughout human redemptive history. Whether you are trying to encourage your child to have a heart for those who are in the midst of suffering or you have a child who has suffered much from their earlier losses in life, this workshop will encourage you to use the gospel at their level to help them process the pain around them.
A Diverse Church as the Stage of Adoption: How the Theology of Adoption Develops a Multi-Ethnic Church (Vermon Pierre, Roosevelt Community Church, Phoenix) Together for Adoption 2012 Atlanta (Trailer 2) from Together for Adoption on Vimeo.
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