We are studying the book of James at church and all our sermons for 6 weeks as well as our bible studies dive into James to understand how our faith will bear good fruit and that God has specifically called us to engage to take care of those that can not care for themselves. Our church is outfitting over 200 children with winter coats, feeding people at the salvation army and at a senior center and donating used clothing to groups over the course of the next few weeks. While it is exciting to see the piles of stuff showing up a I witnessed on Sunday, it also made me sad as I realized that while our engagement will make a difference, there is so much need out there that goes unmet that it just breaks my heart. The scriptures specifically call out orphans and this group below has started a site that they are aggregating people's energies and activities towards working on this problem...they have a number of 143 million orphans in the world on their site. How they came up with it, I am not sure...but regardless, what an incredible number. The population of the US is just above 300 million, just to put it into perspective...
It is easy to be overwhelmed by that number and not do anything, but I am glad we are starting with the local area and helping out in a few small ways and hopefully we will see a revival across the world and see that number tumble dramatically.
http://143million.org/
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