Today was Orphan Sunday and November is National Adoption Month.
What I love about Orphan Sunday is the huge difference
it's made for children around the world.
Lives have been changed because church services set aside a
day to celebrate, raise awareness and pray for orphans.
In doing a little reading on how "Orphan Sunday" began, I was shocked to find out that it started in a small church in Zambia. A church who had nothing when it comes to money/material goods was challenged to reach out to the orphans in their community.
They began giving and helping (when they truly didn't have anything to give).
How humbling to realize that it took a small church in Zambia to ignite the fire to raise orphan awareness via Orphan Sunday. This grew and grew to more churches and has now spread far and wide across the world. It's been challenging for me to think that if the people in Zambia can give shoes off their own feet and the only food they have in their house to orphans down the street... what more can I be doing?
We're adopting one and yes, that's one less but what a huge number - 147,000,000.
I've struggled with questions like "What do we do after the adoption? Do we keep adopting kids? How can we help make that number even less?" I don't have those answers yet but my heart hurts just thinking about the fact that there are so many children desiring a family.
We understand that not everyone is called to adopt but we are all called to help.
I ask that you pray about what you can be doing to help.
Is it supporting an orphan monthly? Supporting an adoptive family?
Providing shoes to children who don't have any?
Please pray with me about what God might have you and I do to make this number less.
Here's the Orphan Sunday video - a short video that puts things in perspective...
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