WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT ORPHANS

Wash yourselves and be clean!
Get your sins out of my sight.
Give up your evil ways.
Learn to do good.
Seek justice.
Help the oppressed.
Defend the cause of orphans.
Fight for the rights of widows.
Isaiah 1:16-17 NLT

“Give justice to the poor and the orphan;
uphold the rights of the oppressed and the destitute.
Rescue the poor and helpless;
deliver them from the grasp of evil people.
Psalm 82:3-4 NLT

Pastor Russell Moore the father of two children he originally adopted from Russia said-

“Imagine, for a moment, the plight of an orphan somewhere out there.
With every passing year, she will become less "cute," thus less adoptable.
In a few years, on her eighteenth birthday, she will be expelled from the system.
She might join the military or find job training.
Maybe she'll stare at a tile on the ceiling above her as her body is violated—alone or before a camera crew of strangers—by a man who's willing to pay enough for her to eat for one day.
Maybe she'll place a revolver in her mouth or tie a rope around her neck, knowing no one will notice except the ones who have to clean up afterward. This story could just as well describe a boy who is orphaned.
Can you feel the desperation of what it means to be an orphan? Jesus can.
Orphans are his little sisters and brothers. He hears them.”

“Let my heart be broken by the things that break the heart of God” World Vision Founder Bob Pierce

• The Average yearly American income is $38,611 per person or $105 per day
• America only makes up 4.5% of the world‘s population
• 55% of the world makes less than $2 a day
• How successful would you be if you lived in a place with no clean water and 25% of all the kids died before their fifth birthday
• How would you like to work 16 hours a day for less than a dollar a day?
• Imagine growing up malnourished to where your body and your mind became stunted.
• Imagine living somewhere where an abscessed tooth or an ear infection was a death sentence

So you have not received a spirit that makes you fearful slaves. Instead, you received God’s Spirit when he adopted you as his own children. Now we call him, “Abba, Father.” Romans 8:15 NLT

• Let's remember that we were orphans once, and that someone came looking for us, someone who taught us to call him "Abba."
• Let’s reject the selfish, self-absorbed cry of Cain, “Am I my brother’s keeper?” and instead imitate our Savior.
• Let's be ambassadors for the One who loves the little children, all the children of the world.
• Like him, let's welcome children into our homes, our churches, and our lives, especially those we are not supposed to want.

Please join us at Faith Fellowship this Sunday at 11:00 AM

Pastor Mike Chaney

Faith Fellowship
5783 Mary Ingles Hwy
Melbourne, KY 41059