On this site you will find information to aid with special needs adoption programs as well as resources available through the NCWRCA. Also offered are web links to other helpful organizations and publications with a particular emphasis on working with special needs adoption.

Chuck and Julie Bergeron are an amazing couple with a heart for the wounded.

Joel Sonnenberg has learned more crucial life lessons, faced more challenges, overcome more hardships, developed a deeper faith, and influenced more individuals than most people do in a lifetime. He is a national speaker and has made guest appearances on television since the age of five. Joel has earned numerous honors, including personal commendations from governors and the president of the United States. Joel is a graduate of Columbia International Seminary in South Carolina. 

Answers to your questions on chemotherapy - "Making the Journey Easier"

The Dougy Center was the first center in the United States to provide peer support groups for grieving children. We'd like to share with you what we have learned from over 20,000 children, teens and families we've served since 1982.

"Planet Cancer is a community of young adults with cancer. (You know, that age between 'pediatric' and 'geriatric, where no one knows whether to give you a lollipop or have a serious talk about your fiber intake.) It's a place to share insights, explore our fears, laugh, or even give the finger to cancer with others who just plain get it."

Free, personalized websites that support and connect loved ones during critical illness, treatment and recovery.

HopeKeepers® Magazine offers spiritual support to those who live with a chronic condition. What is the definition of a chronic illness? Anything that causes continuous pain or an incurable illness. This can include fibromyalgia, diabetes or heart disease, chronic fatigue syndrome, migraines, back pain.

"There are many health magazines," says Lisa Copen, 39, founder and Editor-in-Chief of HopeKeepers, "but for those who may live decades with a chronic illness there are few resources that address the rollercoaster of emotions and practicalities of effectively living with disease-especially from a Christian perspective, which is the foundation for many.Coping with chronic illness can be disheartening, through support with others we can learn how to manage chronic illness well."

A very helpful list of sits which have been given the "Christians With Chronic Illness and Pain Award." This page encourages, "You'll find many sites of comfort and encouragement. We feel these are safe and informative places for Christians who live with chronic illness or pain. Please let us know if you find something questionable."

Premier educational and informational resource on the Internet for healthcare professionals and consumers who have an interest in pain and its management.

"Pastor David is from Ireland. He is waiting for a heart transplant. He offers spiritual support and prayer to all who face the trauma of heart transplant or any other major heart illness."

"Celebrating the truth that God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfried in Him.  We exist to produce and distribute resources that spread a passion for the supremacy of God in all things for the joy of all peoples through Jesus Christ."

"To reach and challenge those who shape the ideas of culture with the credibility of the gospel of Jesus Christ.    Ravi Zacharias International Ministries seeks to reach and challenge those who shape the ideas of culture with the credibility and the beauty of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. To questions of the skeptic and the believer we offer an apologetic - we give an answer - to the counter claims of secularism and other worldviews. We address the intellectual and existential assumptions of our culture, realizing that for some, the door to the heart is through the mind, and for others through the imagination. Our vision is threefold: evangelism, apologetics and training. One of the great losses of our time is critical thinking and RZIM is committed to reaching this generation around the world. We seek to remove the barriers to the cross for the skeptic and we prepare Christians to give a reason for the hope within."

A continuing campaign to provide every child in foster care with a suitcase.

An excellent website with practical helps! In addition, free, encouraging, daily devotional e-mails are available for one year following your loss.  You do not need to be involved in a group to receive them.  Sign-up at the GriefShare website.   

   The Path of Faith seeks to provide biblically sound information for people who are hurting. Their prayer and goal is to help Christians grow in their faith and trust in Jesus Christ and to give them a source of help when they need guidance.

"This is the place to give love and honor to those who have been lost before they were born. Whether your child was miscarried, stillborn or aborted, the love you may have for that child will remain forever. Since in most cases, we don't have burials for these little ones to remember them by, an online memorial can be a helpful alternative."

"In Wild At Heart John Eldredge invites men to recover their masculine heart, defined in the image of a passionate God. And he invites women to discover the secret of a man's soul and to delight in the strength and wildness men were created to offer."