Orphan Sunday

A year ago I couldn't have told you that the first sunday in November was called Orphan Sunday -- a Sunday dedicated to sharing the needs of orphans with the church body.  A year ago I couldn't have told you even in a ballpark figure just how many orphans there are in this world.  I had no idea.  How sad is that? 

  James 1:27
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

I am amazed at how many times I read that verse and didn't realize that it meant ME.  I was to visit the fatherless....I was to help orphans...ME!  The word "fatherless" appears 43 times in the KJV.  43 times!!! These lost children are important to God and they should be to us. 

 

 

And since I learned about the needs of Orphans from Reece's Rainbow (a sight dedicated to raising awareness and funds for special needs orphans), I thought I would share just a few of the children waiting for someone to read James 1:27 or Matthew 25 and say "Hey, that's ME....God wants ME to do this...He really does care about the "least of these". 

Dawn

 

Angelina

Kolya

Boden

Veronica

 

I just wonder how many Christians celebrated Halloween.....do you think the same number of Christians are celebrating Orphan Sunday? Think about it!