Orphan Sunday

 

I can't explain it, but I know some will understand. 

I am not even sure when it happened.
It's exciting and scary all at the same time.
I see differently.
I hear differently.
I think differently.
I feel more.
I respond to His word differently.
Sermons, lessons, scripture, prayers and life lessons - I see another angle - I am constantly relating everything to orphan care.
It's there when I kiss my boys good night.
When I hold their hands.
When I wipe their noses or help with their shoes and coats.
I just can't help it.
I might be driving my husband a little crazy.
I think he thinks I am a little crazy.
But I am so thankful to feel so much.
I am thankful for my Missional Community Group because they are the some who understand.

It was a JOY to serve with them this morning.

It was a labor of love, but so worth it.

We had a great turnout for our "orphans table and panel discussion." 

7 panelists shared 8 ways to serve the orphan/child in waiting

would you consider?

Visit

Protect

 Mobilze the church

Speak Up for them

Provide

Adopt

Give

Pray

 Psalm 146:9 says, “The Lord protects the strangers; He supports the fatherless and the widow…”

Psalm 68: 5 – 6,  “A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in His holy dwelling.  

God sets the lonely in families.”

Matthew 7:7-8… "Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.”

Isaiah 1:17: learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause

John 14:15- 18 it says, "If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper to be with you forever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you. "I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.