The sheer number of orphans worldwide is staggering…heartbreaking…and overwhelming. But you know what? Behind the number is a multitude of faces of real children. And beyond the numbers, there is a beautiful thing. An orphan who is adopted into a forever family becomes a son or a daughter, no longer an orphan. A simple change in label? No. No longer a statistic. No longer part of the overwhelming number that the world at large seems paralyzed to know what to do about.
An alcoholic who becomes a Christ follower is no longer an alcoholic. He is a Christ follower who struggles with alcohol abuse; his identity is now found primarily in Christ. Just as a Christian is no longer identified by his sin, a child adopted into his forever family is no longer identified as an orphan.
More than 140 million? We can have an impact. One prayer, one family, one child at a time.
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