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Orphan Sunday 2017
This year’s Orphan Sunday theme was True GRIT! Our speakers and panel discussion focused on what it takes to thrive in the world of foster care and adoption. Thank you to the over 130 attendees who came out to support current foster and adoptive parents, and especially to those who came to learn more. Please pray that God's word reaches those willing to take the next step in their journey to “Defend the cause of the fatherless.” Isaiah 1:17.
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What is Orphan Sunday?
We are here to celebrate adoption, foster care and global initatives that reveal God’s heart by being:
“A father to the fatherless…is God in His holy dwelling. God sets the lonely in families.”
–Psalms 68: 5-6 (NIV)
We recognize that we were all once orphans of sin that God saved through the love of His precious Son, Jesus Christ, and so we seek to mirror this love in tangible ways:
“Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.”
–James 1:27 (NIV)
Orphan Sunday is our opportunity to gather together as a local community to tell inspiring stories and grow a heart for orphans.
We hope you can join us.
