About Us

Who We Are

The Faith Collective for Truth and Healing in Adoption was a group of Christians from diverse communities and theological backgrounds—all affected by adoption and united by a desire to:

  • Center adoptee and birth parent voices;
  • Illuminate lived-experience truths often missing from conversations about adoption in The Church;
  • Support those who have been been pushed out of God’s story because of adoption practices and messaging;
  • Journey towards healing alongside those harmed from the trauma of relinquishment and separation in adoption;
  • Advocate for reforming adoption practices and policies.

 

While we are no longer active, we stand by our core beliefs and hope that you will find meaningful content in the resources you’ll find on our website.

Our Core Beliefs

  • We value the inherent worthiness of birth parents and adoptees in the eyes of God.
  • We prioritize family preservation whenever possible and encourage The Church to do the same.
  • We recognize the loss that exists in every adoption, and work to remind others that God is close to the brokenhearted.
  • We recognize the importance of first families to adoptees.
  • We courageously lean into conversations about hard topics.
  • We value truth as a pathway to binding up our wounds and healing.
  • We believe in equal representation in church adoption groups, with birth parents and adult adoptees invited to the table, even when they share what may be considered countering perspectives.
  • We aim to address the fallout from hetero-normative, white middle-class ideals and how they affect adoption.
  • We honor unmarried people and child-free families as much as we honor families with children, and aim to bring awareness to cultural pressures to parent children and the ways this can lead to harmful adoption practices and commodification of children.
  • We believe in decoupling conversations about adoption from conversations about abortion.
  • We strive to offer community in Christ with each other, as God intended, and we see all parties in adoption as integral to this community.
  • We endeavor to be like Jesus, who disrupted the status quo and brought secrets to light.