In 30 years of ministry, Jaran Family Ministries has been blessed and has not requested donations.  We are so grateful for those that have sowed into our family ministry over the years. In this new season, the Lord has stirred the launching of the next level of the arts express’d (see:www.TheArtsExpressed.com). Over the next several [...]

The Journey Of Adoption is our family’s journey from a small community in northwestern Minnesota to the mountains of Guatemala. This story unfolds the uniqueness of beginning with one child, giving birth to twins, and culminating in the addition of a sibling group of three older children from an orphanage in Guatemala. The book presents [...]

I am currently working on a book about our family’s adoption story. The book will include our adopted children’s perspectives, and their original poetry and artwork. Additionally, I am working on a new version of my book, No More Orphans, specifically geared toward children. This fall I will be recording my second spontaneous instrumental piano [...]

If ever there was a time to sound the alarm, gather the elders, gather the people worldwide, cry out to God to take back all the enemy has stolen, and stand in faith for a holy visitation (Joel 2), it’s for such a time as this. Global Day of Prayer is Sunday, May 23, 1010. [...]

If ever there was a time to sound the alarm, gather the elders, gather the people, cry out to God to take back all the enemy has stolen, and stand in faith for a holy visitation (Joel 2), it’s for such a time as this: the theme for National Day of Prayer 2010. If every [...]

New and now available: No More Orphans! book, intercessory piano CD, and equipping ministry by Tammy L. Sorenson. We have finished the final editing and printing stages. Below is an excerpt from the table of contents. We are very excited to see how the Lord desires to use this vision He instructed me to write [...]

This morning I awakened to the following lyrics running through my spirit: “When the music fades, and all is stripped away, and I simply come…” These words clearly describe the position I find myself in at the onset of this new year, 2010. I first heard this song, “When the Music Fades,” at an Awake [...]

I have been reflecting on the journey the Lord has walked me through the past 20 years. Partly because one season of my journey is so close to nearing an end, and partly because of believing for another exciting chapter when this current chapter does conclude. I have been so blessed to have been given [...]

Psalms 127:3-5, “Children are a gift from the Lord; they are a reward from Him. Children born to a young man are like sharp arrows in a warrior’s hands. How happy is the man whose quiver is full of them! He will not be put to shame when he confronts his accusers at the city [...]

We recently completed our 10th Family Destiny Conference (*See Family Destiny Conference under Families in Christ articles on this site for further details.) As it is every year, our time together was a very special and rich family time of wrapping up the end of one year and opening up the beginning of the next. [...]