[There are many ways we can care for orphans!]
Six years ago Paul Pennington and his wife Robin—parents of six children, five of them adopted—launched Hope for Orphans (HFO) as a ministry in their church. A year later they brought that local ministry under the umbrella of FamilyLife, which was looking for ways to take up the cause of fatherless children.
The result is a ministry that equips Christian families to adopt and assists churches to establish orphan ministries. Pennington said he became aware early on that a gap existed between the Bible's teaching about orphans and church preparedness to take up that burden...
...The crisis, Pennington says, is a chance for North American Christians to put aside a "consumeristic, entertainment-based, and me-centered" religion and to become "concerned about the things that concern the heart of God."
He lists some ways for individuals, families, Sunday school classes, and churches to get involved: adopting and giving a child a home; leading a support group for families adopting hurt children; adopting an orphan home in Africa; volunteering to mentor one of the 20,000 foster youth who will "age out of the system" this year with no family or plan; building relationships with pen pals in an orphanage or by live video chat; going to Africa or China to hold and feed kids left all day in cribs; and, of course, giving money.
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