Adoption Sunday: Children waiting

If your church is passionate about transforming society, use the film and prayer to raise awareness of the needs of vulnerable children.

The essentials

• Full length video (4 mins) with longer talk on the end
• Short video (2 mins) with no talk at the end
• Prayer on PowerPoint slides

More resources on this theme

• Prayer ideas
• Sermon outline – Romans 8: How does understanding our adoption into God’s family impact our love and interaction in our community/the lives of vulnerable children.
• Sermon outline – Galatians 4: looking at through our adoption by God we have a family, we have a hope, we have an inheritance, we receive the Spirit who helps us to cry out that God is our Abba, Father. So what does this mean for us as individuals and as the Church family? How might you respond?
• Small group/interactive service ideas
• Adoption Sunday ideas
• Alice and Phil’s story: In a 6 minute video Alice and Phil share about their journey of becoming foster carers.
• Karen’s story: In this 3 minute video, Karen shares about adopting siblings.
• Interview questions
• Worship song suggestions
• Take an offering for Home for Good
• Before and beyond Adoption Sunday a few suggestions on how to prepare for Adoption Sunday in your church and how to respond afterwards.