Special Needs Adoption – The Rinehart Family’s Story

• Today on the podcast, the Rinehart’s join and share their story of how special needs adoption has impacted their life for the better. Three of their nine children were adopted from China and each have Down syndrome. 

GUEST

• The Rinehart family is an adoptive family at Lifeline. Joe and Dr. Brenda Rinehart have nine children and nine grandchildren. Dr. Brenda Rinehart works as a Doctor of Psychology. Joe works for Cisco Systems. They adopted three of their children who have Down syndrome from China. 

HOST

• Herbie Newell is the President & Executive Director of Lifeline Children’s Services and its ministry arms.

CO-HOST

• Rick Morton is the Vice President of Engagement at Lifeline Children’s Services.

RESOURCES

• At Lifeline Children’s Services, we believe that every child, no matter their abilities or needs, is worthy of love, family, and belonging. 
• We are seeing an increased need for families to show children with a variety of special needs that they are worthy of love. 
• Both domestically and internationally, a rising number of children with special needs is waiting to thrive in a family. How is God calling your family to help?    
• For more information, visit https://lifelinechild.org/special-needs-adoption/. 

LIFELINE CHILDREN’S SERVICES

• The mission of Lifeline Children’s Services is to equip the Body of Christ to manifest the gospel to vulnerable children. Our vision is for vulnerable children and their communities to be transformed by the gospel and to make disciples. 
• Web: lifelinechild.org
• Email: [email protected]
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