It was after a Focus on the Family broadcast during Adoption Awareness Month four or five years ago about Antioch Adoptions that God first started tugging us toward orphan ministry. We had decided we couldn
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That is SO wonderful! Way to act on a dream God has put on your hearts…how beautiful! One child at a time!!!
Melissa, I wholeheartedly agree: protecting, loving, serving the orphan is not a suggestions but a command to all of us who call ourselves followers of Christ. The Bible is clear about this. But I also agree with you that each one is call to serve in different ways. Some of us, like our family and yours, are called to adopt. Others, like my social worker are called to do something else. She has two biological children and has not been called to adopt but day in and day out she works to find families for orphans or give them the care they need. Thank you for such a beautiful article, pictures included! Blessings in your journey to Ethiopia. We started our own paper chase for Haiti a few months ago 🙂
So glad to read your post Melissa. I think it is word that many need to hear, counteracting the message, sometimes stated bluntly, sometimes implied, that the only true spiritual response of the church is to adopt– and that anything else is somehow “less.” Thank you for being an encourager of the many godly ways believers can serve. Bless you!
Thanks, Beth. We’d be doing families and children a disservice if we “convinced” anyone to adopt. It’s not an easy road so you definitely have to be called to walk down it. However, it’s an easier road when we have fellow believers walking alongside us.