Sunday, January 17th, 2010
Church-centered initiative to serve Haiti’s Orphans
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world. (James 1:27)
This is a high calling, to turn our hearts toward orphans. I find the Together for Adoption (T4A) website helpful for staying tuned in. I encourage you to subscribe to it.
Some of us have been wondering how to make a difference for orphans in Haiti. Today T4A makes a hopeful announcement:
We are actively working on an initiative to mobilize the U.S. church to be the hands and feet of the Haitian church to care for its orphans. We want to serve our Haitian brothers and sisters in Christ by coming alongside them and doing for them what they cannot do themselves: care for their orphans in crisis.
Please read the whole thing and pray about how to be involved.
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Hi Noel. This is an excerpt from a friend of mine who heads the adoption support group for our old church in Ann Arbor. I thought there might be a thought there in terms of one thing people can do to help the situation: “Kathryn (my stay-in-the-background girl!) made announcements in a couple of her Saline High classes Friday and has collected about 200 petition signatures to appeal to the US gov’t to grant emergency visas to children in process of adoption who have been matched to American families, since they are in peril and their paperwork that was in PAP may be irrecoverably lost.”