This last weekend we spent with a close friend, family really, who spent 22 years of her life in an orphanage. Abandoned before she can remember, she has seen a lot in those 22 years.
I don't know all the reasons she was never put up for adoption, perhaps it was that because of her physical needs no one thought anyone would want her, perhaps it was because she is very wise for her age and she knew too much, whatever the reason, no family ever came for her.
Some of the things she faced growing up I'll never probably know, the things I do know make me want to weep, for no child should ever have to face the awful things she had to face.
Every time we are with her I am committed even more to encourage people to get involved in orphan care and adoption. She was never able to be adopted, but the people who came to care for her even while and orphan in many ways shaped the person she is now, and the Lord used those people to open doors for her.
We have been truly blessed by knowing her and by having her as our little sister.
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Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, AND to keep himself unspotted from the world.
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Statistics
- There are more than 143 million orphans worldwide
- There are more than 800,000 children in America’s foster care system each year.
- More than 33% of Americans have seriously considered adopting, but no more than 2% have actually adopted.
- The Holocaust murdered about 11 million people, 6 million of them Jews, From 1973-2002 MORE THAN 42 MILLION abortions occurred in AMERICA alone.
- In 2001, 159 million people in America identified themselves as Christians, many who consider themselves pro-life, yet 1.5 million babies never saw life, and millions remained orphans worldwide-127,000 adoptions took place, the most common of these 127,000 was step parent adoptions, leaving approximately 142,873,000 kids still needing families.
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