An Adoption Story: There Is A Global Orphan Crisis
Today is National Adoption Day, featuring many efforts to help us care for orphans, but the orphan crisis around the world keeps growing. Some 163 million children worldwide are considered orphans.
All of us should be praying.
All of us should ask if this a need we should be giving to.
Some of us should ask God if He wants us to follow His model--He adopted us--and bring one--or more--of these children into our home.
This "Creation Groans" video will touch your heart.
There are many places to learn more about orphans and adoption. One of my favorites is the Christian Alliance for Orphans, a uniting of more than 100 ministries serving orphans and families.
Many people have beautiful stories to tell of God growing their families through adoption. Mine is just one of them. It is a story of great challenge and great hope. I have skimmed the top of our story, with five brief "chapters" of our adventure. Here they are all together in case you want to read about our adoption.
Chapter 1: I Am Sending You a Son
Chapter 2: The Road to Adoption
"Defend the cause of the fatherless..." (Isaiah 1:17)