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Responding to the Need

According to UNICEF, there are over 140 million orphans in the world today.  If you were to look more closely at that number, you would find that there are:

    • 43.4 million orphans in Africa
    • 87.6 million orphans in Asia
    • 1.5 million orphans in Eastern Europe
    • 12.4 million orphans in Latin America and the Caribbean
    • 500,000 children in the United States Foster Care System
    • 122,761 of these foster children available for adoption

In the end, every one of these numbers is too large to truly grasp. The good news is the only number we need to be concerned with is “one.”

What does the one true God want to do through you and your church to make an eternal difference in the life of one child at a time?

More and more Christians are recognizing and understanding God’s heart for the orphan and responding to His clear call by establishing orphans ministries as a part of their local churches.  Though some of these churches are now caring for dozens or even hundreds of orphans, most of them began with the vision of one or two people and a desire to see lives transformed by the Gospel one child at a time.

Perhaps you’ve asked, what does the one true God want to do on behalf of the orphan through you and your church?  We at FamilyLife’s Hope for Orphans want to be there as you and your church begin to explore the possible answers to that question.