• If you mention The Zoe Foundation, 20% of what you spend goes directly to support adoption! We are thrilled to “Eat mor chikin” and “‘Adopt mor babies…”.

• Guest appearance by the notorious Sal. Fresh off house arrest, Sal promises to “mingle amongst the peoples” for a while.  This is a conversation you will not forget.

• Drawings for Chick-Fil-A food, coupons and assorted chicken goodness! Your receipt is your ticket, meaning you can eat, win and eat more in a strange chicken time loop!

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  A raffle for an Amazon Kindle Fire! Tickets are now available from Zoe team members or at Cafe Main in Grandview.  $5 gets your name in the hat, $10 gets it in twice, etc.  The more you buy, the greater your chances of taking this gizmo home!

Email Randy if you’d like a ticket and can’t find a way to land one!

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Please consider helping us spread the message that to be pro life is to be pro child. You can do this in two ways.

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We have seen great results from people sharing this sort of content – yours may be the link that gets it in front of someone who desperately needs to hear it.  Click SHARE on the youtube page in the lower left portion of the video.

2)  Contribute to our Make the Tracks program that builds a new underground railroad for the unborn.

Through your one time gift or by partnering with us on a monthly basis, the message of adoption is spread, birth mothers receive extra care, and families are empowered to adopt children.

The issue of slavery is still rampant in our own backyards and I couldn’t even believe it myself when first hearing about it. It should be of no surprise that children and orphans are one of the most directly involved victims; some of the root issues include abuse, perversion, and abandonment in the homes. This is a fact that Nefarious strongly addresses and the reality of it was gaining on us quickly as we drove nearer to our first screening. If one in three women have been sexually/physically abused as a child, and one in four men, then our future audiences of thousands were, without a doubt, going to have ones who could directly relate to the documentary.

Before I go on, I want to emphasize that when carrying this burden for justice and human trafficking, it is inevitable that the beauty of the Spirit of adoption shines with full force. It was a pretty sweet and encouraging moment for me to hear this awesome clip while on tour, featuring two leaders in the prayer and justice movement. If you haven’t already heard, our own Randy Bohlender has been holding a radio show, named The Spirit of Adoption Show, on AM 730 WTNT The Truth. The audio clip is one of the episodes where Randy interviews Benjamin Nolot, the filmmaker of Nefarious and founder of Exodus Cry. Their discussion pulls together the fact that to be pro-life is to be pro-child and pro-human life on every level, that it doesn’t exclude the dark realms of human trafficking.

One uncomfortable thought I want to bring to the table is: many of the orphaned and abused children of ten to thirty years ago have become the exploited victims and perpetrators of today. But what if they had been shown the true Spirit of adoption before that dreadful cross-over? What if the targeted orphans and abused where taken first by the protective love of Christian homes? Human trafficking would have to stop dead in its tracks because the main commodity for it’s $32 billion industry would no longer be for sale. Researches and advocates related to this issue have come to the general consensus that human trafficking is simply the exploitation of vulnerability. Traffickers don’t always have to scour dark alleys to find and kidnap an unsuspecting person into their van. Desperate people can be easily pawned into ‘the game’ by sleazy manipulators who show a counterfeit sense of adoption and safety.

Our screening tour was named the Incurable Fanatics Tour modeled after Wiliam Wilberforce’s famous proclamation, “If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my people is to be a fanatic, then I am one of the most incurable fanatics to be at large.” He was a man of radical prayer, financial giving, and awareness who successfully led the abolition movement of slavery in his day. I believe that even now God is scanning the innumerable injustices of the earth and is searching for ones who will be modern-day Wilberforces, it’s the Psalm 14:2 reality. A more comical illustration that comes to mind is of the child game-books Where’s Waldo? In the books there are pages filled with an overwhelming amount of silly characters amassed together and in all the hubbub you must find that one little guy, with the striped get-up and a smirk on his face, who’s been looking straight at you the whole time. How many of us will the Lord find looking at Him in the middle of it all? To how many of us, whether it’s an individual, a family, or a community will He say, “Aha! I’ve won!” Not in a children’s game of puzzles, but over the horrific schemes of the enemy against the children.

To learn more about Exodus Cry and the documentary Nefarious, Merchant of Souls visit www.ExodusCry.com or www.NefariousDocumentary.com

The point is, we want to get the word about about the Spirit of Adoption! So feel free to tweet, facebook, +1, network, and do work with these videos as you see fit. And stay tuned because Randy promises more…

Above is the newest vid: It’s Our Job. Watch, listen, and be reminded of who exactly is Biblically responsible for orphan care.
And if you haven’t seen the first part to the series, watch Common Objections to Adoption below and hear Randy address the American Dream.

One of the highlights of the past few years for The Zoe Foundation has been helping with the launching of Hannah’s Dream Adoptions, a fully licensed adoption agency that is a part of the International House of Prayer.

Like any new venture, we learned a lot – fast – and want to share it with others.  There is no entity in world better equipped to launch an adoption agency than the local church.  If you’d like to see people in your church or house of prayer be able to adopt at a substantially lower expense than the norm, we have an opportunity for you.

Adoption Camp – October 7/8 – Kansas City, Missouri

The Zoe Foundation, along with the staff from Hannah’s Dream, will do an intense, day and a half brain dump that will get you started on the road to starting an adoption agency.  We’ll cover the adoption process, legal requirements, birth mother ministry, and a host of other things.

Three more things you should know….

1)  It’s free.   No joke.  The training, materials, etc are on us.  We are passionate about the church entering into the adoption process and this is the best way we can come up with for starting multiple, self sustaining fires.

2)  It’s by invitation only.  We are going to cap the size Adoption Camp at 5 teams (more on that later).  The reason being that we want extensive time for question and answer regarding your specific situation.  The larger Adoption Camp gets, the harder it is to give quality one on one input.

3)  It will fire you up. We did a beta version last fall and three teams left with the basic building blocks of launching an agency.  They’re well on their way to realizing God’s dream of the church owning adoption.

If you’d like to be considered for adoption camp, send us an email at events@thezoefoundation.com with the following info:

• Name of church or house of prayer.
• Church staff member’s name. (They don’t need to attend, but they do need to be on board…).
• Number of team members.  (We ask that you come as a team of between 2 and 5 – we’re going to firehose you with info and you will want help remembering it).

Fire off an email now – if you’re a candidate, we will get back with you in a few days with your invitation.  See you at camp!

The ringleaders of this event were Randy Bohlender and Tracie Loux—two amazing pioneers who shared their hearts on the adoption movement as well as the emotional experiences as they watched their own families grow in both size and faith. Tracie and Randy discussed in detail the many different facets of the adoption journey, from the piles of paperwork to the unforgettable moment of finalization.

As one so young in the game, I wanted to soak up every bit of it. It was incredible to hear such encouraging testimonies of the faithfulness of the Lord, while still receiving the reality of His call to obedience and action. As I looked around, I saw the attentive faces of visitors that were understanding the weight of these truths as well.

I couldn’t help but feel my heart swell with pride to be a small part of such a wide spread movement in favor of life and justice for the children.

Tracie Loux is an adoptive mother of seven who has not only traveled to the frost-bitten orphanages of Eastern Europe to claim two of her children, but also patiently cares for her seventh in the confines of the PICU. In conjunction with being a full-time mom, Tracie works as an Adoptive Family Coordinator for Hannah’s Dream Adoptions. To learn more about her and her family, follow her blog here.

Randy Bohlender is also an adoptive parent of seven and is the head of The Zoe Foundation. Randy has spent years laboring with his wife Kelsey in the prolife movement while juggling a set of twins, soccer games, hours in the prayer room, speaking at conferences and much, much more. To learn more about him and his family, follow his blog here.

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**UPDATE: Monday’s session is SOLD OUT so be sure to RSVP for Wednesday’s session as soon as you’re able!**

For those currently planning a family trip to Kansas City, we would like to give you an opportunity to learn about one of our key values that is often talked about, but rarely understood or acted upon: Adoption.

As one of our social workers at Hannah’s Dream Adoptions put it so well, “If your mental picture of adoption looks like a Lifetime movie plot there is so much more to learn!”

Join us for one of our FREE Spirit of Adoption Seminars, coinciding with the second week of CEC’s Signs and Wonder’s camp!

DATES: Monday July 11th
(SOLD OUT!!!)

or

Wednesday July 13th

TIME: 9am – Noon

LOCATION: Hannah’s Dream / Zoe Foundation conference room

11900 Grandview Rd, Grandview Mo, 64030 (at the corner of Grandview Rd and Martha Truman)

You have the choice to attend one of the two morning sessions where we will share all that we can surrounding the following topics:

• The common myths surrounding the adoption movement
• Why adoption is important
• The “next steps” needed if a family decides to adopt
• Countless ways to support the adoption movement

Space is limited so please register!

What are you waiting for? Sign your kids up for camp, pack your bags and come meet Randy Bohlender and the team as they share all they can about adoption and this amazing movement we get to be a part of. You never know what sort of treasure you will be able to bring back with you.