The Defender Podcast

In part two of this story, Herbie Newell talks with the Gwyn family about God’s faithfulness and bringing their son Caleb home from India. Subscribe on iTunes | Stitcher Email: [email protected] Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lifelinechild Twitter: @lifelinechild Instagram: lifelinechild

In part one of this story, Herbie Newell talks with the Gwyn family about traveling to India to be with their son, Caleb (formerly Sahil) as he fought for his life, and their faith and perseverance through this time. Subscribe on iTunes | Stitcher Email: [email protected] Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lifelinechild Twitter: @lifelinechild Instagram: lifelinechild

In this episode Herbie Newell talks with Meredith Campbell about how families can still participate in caring for vulnerable children in Africa, even when countries are closed and adoption isn’t possible. https://lifelinechild.org/unadopted/ Subscribe on iTunes | Stitcher Email: [email protected] Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lifelinechild Twitter: @lifelinechild Instagram: lifelinechild

In this episode Herbie Newell talks with Randall Goodgame about his Slugs & Bugs albums and helping children participate in family worship and learn the Bible Randall Goodgame: Twitter: @randallgoodgame or @slugsandbugs Instagram @randallgoodgame SlugsandBugs.com Subscribe on iTunes | Stitcher Email: [email protected] Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lifelinechild Twitter: @lifelinechild Instagram: lifelinechild

In this episode Herbie Newell talks with Meredith Campbell about the sovereignty of God in failed adoptions and her experience with families struggling through this process. Subscribe on iTunes | Stitcher Email: [email protected] Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lifelinechild Twitter: @lifelinechild Instagram: lifelinechild

In this episode Herbie Newell interviews Pastor David Prince from Ashland Avenue Baptist Church and discuss how Pastors can get their church engaged with orphan care. David Prince: Twitter: @davideprince and @princepreaching Latest Book: https://www.amazon.com/Arena-Promise-Sports-Christian-Discipleship/dp/143369025X/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?ie Ashland Avenue Baptist: twitter: @Ashland_lex Web: ashlandlex.org Lifeline Children’s Sevices Subscribe on iTunes | Stitcher Email: [email protected] Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lifelinechild Twitter: @lifelinechild Instagram: lifelinechild

In this episode Herbie Newell talks with Lifeline Domestic Staff members Christie Mac Segars and Jennifer Travis about the needs of children in foster care in the United States and how the Church can be the answer. lifelinechild.org/fostering lifelinechild.org/foster-parenting Subscribe on iTunes | Stitcher Email: [email protected] Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lifelinechild Twitter: @lifelinechild Instagram: lifelinechild

In this episode Herbie Newell talks with Qiu Yang (Lily) about the origins of Lifeline’s China program and the impact it is having on both children and caseworkers in the region. Subscribe on iTunes | Stitcher Email: [email protected] Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lifelinechild Twitter: @lifelinechild Instagram: lifelinechild

In this episode Herbie Newell talks with Qiu Yang (Lily) about the origins of Lifeline’s China program and the impact it is having on both children and caseworkers in the region. Subscribe on iTunes | Stitcher Email: [email protected] Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lifelinechild Twitter: @lifelinechild Instagram: lifelinechild

In this episode Herbie Newell discusses the Great American Eclipse of August 21, 2017 and the Glory of God. Article – http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/08/20/are-solar-eclipses-proof-god.html Subscribe on iTunes | Stitcher Email: [email protected] Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lifelinechild Twitter: @lifelinechild Instagram: lifelinechild

In this episode Herbie Newell discusses topics such as Iceland’s “elimination” of down syndrome, the Charlie Gard case, and the sanctity of human life. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/down-syndrome-iceland/?linkId=40953194 http://lifelinechild.org/the-hike-adopting-a-child-with-down-syndrome/ http://www.nads.org To apply to to adopt a child with special needs – https://lifelinechild.org/apply/ Subscribe on iTunes | Stitcher Email: [email protected] Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lifelinechild Twitter: @lifelinechild Instagram: lifelinechild

In Part II of this EXTRA episode Dr. Rick Morton and Whitney White discuss adoption attachment and building trust with an adopted or foster child. Subscribe on iTunes | Stitcher Email: [email protected] Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lifelinechild Twitter: @lifelinechild Instagram: lifelinechild

In this episode Herbie Newell talks with about Lifeline’s Eurasia programs and what it looks like to advocate for and adopt children from these countries. Subscribe on iTunes | Stitcher Email: [email protected] Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lifelinechild Twitter: @lifelinechild Instagram: lifelinechild

In this episode Herbie Newell discusses Charlottesville, Racism, and the Sanctity of Life. Subscribe on iTunes | Stitcher Email: [email protected] Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lifelinechild Twitter: @lifelinechild Instagram: lifelinechild

In this episode Herbie Newell talks with Suzanne Faske and Brittany Burianek from Here I Am Orphan Ministries about their partnership with Lifeline for Colombia Kids Camp. Subscribe on iTunes | Stitcher Email: [email protected] Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lifelinechild Twitter: @lifelinechild Instagram: lifelinechild

In this episode Herbie Newell chats with Beth Stanley, & host families about the Colombia Kids Camp happening in Texas. Subscribe on iTunes | Stitcher Email: [email protected] Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lifelinechild Twitter: @lifelinechild Instagram: lifelinechild

In this episode Herbie Newell chats with Oscar Perez, Beth Stanley, & Meredith Crawford about the Colombia Kids Camp happening in Texas and some of the ministry partnerships in Colombia. Subscribe on iTunes | Stitcher Email: [email protected] Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lifelinechild Twitter: @lifelinechild Instagram: lifelinechild

In this episode Herbie Newell explores how caring for orphans and vulnerable children is not a social justice mission, but a Gospel focused mission. Subscribe on iTunes | Stitcher Email: [email protected] Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lifelinechild Twitter: @lifelinechild Instagram: lifelinechild

In this episode Herbie Newell explores how caring for orphans and vulnerable children is not a social justice mission, but a Gospel focused mission. Subscribe on iTunes | Stitcher Email: [email protected] Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lifelinechild Twitter: @lifelinechild Instagram: lifelinechild

In this episode Herbie Newell explores how caring for orphans and vulnerable children is not a social justice mission, but a Gospel focused mission. Subscribe on iTunes | Stitcher Email: [email protected] Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lifelinechild Twitter: @lifelinechild Instagram: lifelinechild

In this episode Herbie Newell gives 10 ways churches can get involved with orphan care and serving vulnerable children. Info Meeting – email [email protected] Stand for Orphans – lifelinechild.org/stand VBS and Mission Kids – lifelinechild.org/missionkid Orphan Sunday – lifelinechild.org/orphan-Sunday; lifelinechild.org/speakers-bureau Sanctity of Human Life – lifelinechild.org/lifematters Equipped to Love – lifelinechild.org/equipped-to-love R(un) for One – runforone5k.org Families Count – lifelinechild.org/families-count (un)adopted Partnership – lifelinechild.org/unadopted Church Wide Events – lifelinechild.org/resources Subscribe on iTunes | Stitcher Email: [email protected] Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lifelinechild Twitter: @lifelinechild Instagram: lifelinechild

In this episode Herbie Newell explains how the Department of State and regulations are not the end of inter-country adoption. Subscribe on iTunes | Stitcher Email: [email protected] Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lifelinechild Twitter: @lifelinechild Instagram: lifelinechild

In this EXTRA episode Dr. Rick Morton and Whitney White discuss adoption attachment and building trust with an adopted or foster child. Subscribe on iTunes | Stitcher Email: [email protected] Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lifelinechild Twitter: @lifelinechild Instagram: lifelinechild

In this episode Herbie Newell digs deeper into racial reconciliation and how adoption can help further this cause through families across the world. Subscribe on iTunes | Stitcher Email: [email protected] Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lifelinechild Twitter: @lifelinechild Instagram: lifelinechild

In this episode Herbie Newell explores what the Bible says about racial reconciliation and what it means that Jesus died to reconcile us to himself. Subscribe on iTunes | Stitcher Email: [email protected] Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lifelinechild Twitter: @lifelinechild Instagram: lifelinechild

In this episode Herbie Newell and Josh Caldwell discuss Lifeline’s many international adoption programs and how to get started on your own adoption journey. International Adoption Subscribe on iTunes | Stitcher Email: [email protected] Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lifelinechild Twitter: @lifelinechild Instagram: lifelinechild

In this episode Herbie Newell and Josh Caldwell discuss how you can get involved with Lifeline outside of personal adoption. Get Involved Subscribe on iTunes | Stitcher Email: [email protected] Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lifelinechild Twitter: @lifelinechild Instagram: lifelinechild

In this episode Herbie Newell and Josh Caldwell discuss one of the most impactful ways to get involved with Lifeline whether you are considering adoption or not: PRAYER. Join us in Prayer Subscribe on iTunes | Stitcher Email: [email protected] Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lifelinechild Twitter: @lifelinechild Instagram: lifelinechild

In this episode Herbie Newell recognizes the sovereignty of God in our pursuit of caring for orphans around the world. Subscribe on iTunes | Stitcher Email: [email protected] Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lifelinechild Twitter: @lifelinechild Instagram: lifelinechild

In this episode Herbie Newell talks with Karla Thrasher about China adoption and some of the recent adoption changes implemented by the Chinese Government and how it may impact families.Subscribe on iTunes | StitcherEmail: [email protected] Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lifelinechild Twitter: @lifelinechild Instagram: lifelinechild

In this episode Herbie Newell talks with Karla Thrasher about some of the things that make Lifeline unique, specifically Lifeline’s Gospel-centered, holistic approach to orphan care and adoption.Subscribe on iTunes | StitcherEmail: [email protected] Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lifelinechild Twitter: @lifelinechild Instagram: lifelinechild

In this episode Herbie Newell talks with Pastor Raphael, and Pastor James Sutton about working together as Christians to build the Kingdom of God while pointing out a reminder that Christianity was not exported from the West. www.unadopted.org Subscribe on iTunes | Stitcher Email: [email protected] Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lifelinechild Twitter: @lifelinechild Instagram: lifelinechild

In this episode Herbie Newell talks with Pastor Raphael, Pastor James Sutton, and Pastor Brad Evangelista about how they are working to train and equip local pastors and leaders to spread the gospel to Busega and Uganda and the ends of the earth. www.unadopted.org Subscribe on iTunes | Stitcher Email: [email protected] Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lifelinechild Twitter: @lifelinechild Instagram: lifelinechild

In this episode Herbie Newell talks with Pastor Raphael about how King Jesus Church is equipping young people to be leaders in their communities and ambassadors for Christ. www.unadopted.org Subscribe on iTunes | Stitcher Email: [email protected] Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lifelinechild Twitter: @lifelinechild Instagram: lifelinechild

In this episode Herbie Newell talks with Pastor Raphael, pastor of King Jesus Church about how they are partnering with Lifeline to reach the Muslim community and serving their orphans and vulnerable children through the Busega School for the Deaf and Blind. www.unadopted.org Subscribe on iTunes | Stitcher Email: [email protected] Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lifelinechild Twitter: @lifelinechild Instagram: lifelinechild

In this episode Herbie Newell talks with Pastor Raphael, pastor of King Jesus Church about how they are partnering with Lifeline to reach the Muslim community and serving their orphans and vulnerable children through the Busega School for the Deaf and Blind. www.unadopted.org Subscribe on iTunes | Stitcher Email: [email protected] Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lifelinechild Twitter: @lifelinechild Instagram: lifelinechild

In this episode, Dr. Rick Morton discusses Special Needs Adoption with China Adoption Program Director Karla Thrasher, and Stefanie Leist, blogger and mom of 13 kiddos. Subscribe on iTunes | Stitcher Website: lifelinechild.org Email: [email protected] Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lifelinechild Twitter: @lifelinechild Instagram: lifelinechild

In this episode Herbie teaches us about belonging to the family of God and what that means to us as believers. Herbie also previews his upcoming trip to Uganda. Subscribe on iTunes | Stitcher Website: lifelinechild.org Email: [email protected] Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lifelinechild Twitter: @lifelinechild Instagram: lifelinechild

In this episode, Herbie Newell and Levacy Smith discuss how Levacy got involved with orphan and foster care, international and domestic adoption, and the exciting things happening with adoption in North Carolina. Subscribe on iTunes | Stitcher Website: lifelinechild.org Email: [email protected] Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lifelinechild Twitter: @lifelinechild Instagram: lifelinechild

In this episode, Herbie Newell and Beth Stanley discuss adoption in Latin America, specifically the country of Colombia. For more information about Colombia adoption, visit lifelinechild.org/country/colombia. Subscribe on iTunes | Stitcher Website: lifelinechild.org Email: [email protected] Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lifelinechild Twitter: @lifelinechild Instagram: lifelinechild

In this episode, Herbie Newell recounts how a recent family trip reminded him that life is a vapor and how we should be living intentionally in the present for the glory of God. Subscribe on iTunes | Stitcher Website: lifelinechild.org Email: [email protected] Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lifelinechild Twitter: @lifelinechild Instagram: lifelinechild

In this episode, Herbie Newell talks with VP of Domestic Programs, Christie Mac Segars and Birthmother Counselor, Christy Harmon about how Lifeline is serving women in unplanned or crisis pregnancies who may be considering abortion and what it means to be life-affirming and not just-pro-birth. More information about Lifeline’s Pregnancy Ministry can be found at pregnant.lifelinechild.org. Podcast Available on iTunes | Stitcher Website: lifelinechild.org Email: [email protected] Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lifelinechild Twitter: @lifelinechild Instagram: lifelinechild

In this episode Herbie Newell and Blake Rogers discuss adoption and foster care in Georgia and how the local church can get involved. Podcast Available on iTunes | Stitcher Website: lifelinechild.org Email: [email protected] Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lifelinechild Twitter: @lifelinechild Instagram: lifelinechild

In this episode of the Defender Podcast, Herbie Newell addresses the controversial travel ban instituted by California to states it deems “discriminatory”. Herbie addresses this issue from the stand point of a faith-based adoption agency, whom these “discriminatory” laws were design to protect and calls on men to lead their families well in this shifting culture. Podcast Available on iTunes | Stitcher Website: lifelinechild.org Email: [email protected] Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lifelinechild Twitter: @lifelinechild Instagram: lifelinechild

In this episode Herbie Newell chats with his three kids who started StandforOrphans to impact orphans around the world by selling lemonade and other goods at lemonade stands across the country. www.standfororphans.org Podcast Available on iTunes | Stitcher Email: [email protected] Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lifelinechild Twitter: @lifelinechild Instagram: lifelinechild

In this episode Herbie Newell and his wife Ashley discuss the origin of Stand for Orphans and how this initiative of Lifeline Children’s Services is impacting orphans around the world. www.standfororphans.org Podcast Available on iTunes | Stitcher Email: [email protected] Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lifelinechild Twitter: @lifelinechild Instagram: lifelinechild

In this episode, Executive Director of Lifeline Children’s Services, Herbie Newell, explores what it means to be a defender of orphans and vulnerable children and how the Body of Christ can help. Now that this faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian. So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise. Galatians 3:25-29 Podcast Available on iTunes | Stitcher Email: [email protected] Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lifelinechild Twitter: @lifelinechild Instagram: lifelinechild