My Single Thought...

Orphan Sunday 2012 -

Did your church acknowledge that today is the Sunday set aside to share the plight of the orphans around the world?

Wake up church!

Can you not see?
Do you not hear?
This is our problem!  The LORD calls for us to care for the orphan and the widow in James 1:27 - He commands that we care for the least of these - He calls us to be a voice for the voiceless - Proverbs 31:8 - 9

CAN YOU HEAR?
DO YOU SEE?

Why did I entitle this post MY SINGLE THOUGHT?
Because as
WE walked onto stage today, November 4, 2012 at Lancaster Evangelical Free Church as a part of their Orphan Sunday!  There were over 50 on stage all wearing "ADOPTED" t-shirts singing "Children of God" - as I stood holding our daughter Ellianna in my arms - watching Brian holding Avi and Lina - and Sasha between us - standing above my friend Renee with her recently adopted daughter from Ethiopia all I could do was get tears in my eyes and search out the crowd within the church and think this single thought - WILL ANYONE HEAR THEIR CRY?! WILL ANYONE HEAR THEIR CRY?  How many of these children that recently have broken my heart would have a family if someone would hear their cry!

THAT WAS THE SINGLE THOUGHT that flooded my mind as I prayed while the song played...LORD OPEN EYES AND HEARTS TO THE PLIGHT OF THE ORPHAN...MAY SOMEONE HEAR!  MAY SOMEONE SEE!  IT DOES MATTER...one child at a time...
it mattered to this one

it mattered to this one

it mattered to this one
it mattered to this one

(Sasha standing with our sisters in  Christ in the Philippines on our trip to bring home Avigyail)


Each child matters - Can you hear? Do you see?
Do they matter to you?

R.
DOB June 2001
Down Syndrome

M.
DOB October 2001
Down syndrome


K.
DOB: September 2003
Down syndrome




Additional photos and information available on these newly listed children!
Check out www.lifelineadoption.org

stephanie.carpenter@lifelinechild.org

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BE A VOICE FOR THE VOICELESS ON THIS ORPHAN SUNDAY 2012 and thank you LEFC in Lititz, PA for an awesome ORPHAN SUNDAY!
check out Team 127 http://www.team127.com/

Proverbs 31: 8 - 9