Hope for 100

 

Check out what Green Acres Baptist Church in Tyler, TX is doing to advocate for orphans - through this "Hope for 100" campaign.

GOAL:  Provide Christian homes for 100 children through adoption or foster care

100 children will never be the same.

Green Acres Baptist Church will never be the same.

Their church-wide effort will accomplish this: 

• Raise awareness of the plight of the fatherless
• Issue a specific challenge to the Church to care for a 100 orphan children
• Match interested families with mentor families (previously adopted/fostered) to give guidance and encouragement
• Become engaged in Orphan Care
• Provide Funding to adopt (Grants & Loans)

Launch Sunday:  January 4, 2009

If You Were Mine conference:  January 31, 2009

Hope for 100 is designed to be duplicatable.... You can do it. Your Church can do it.

The Leadership Team's prayer at HF100 is...that other churches across the US will have a desire to do the same thing.

Hope for 100 team will help you do it in your church, city, or state...

Do you want to help lead a Hope for 100 in your area?

Andy

Travor and Haley's gift - $5.67

Recently I found this note and $5.67 on the kitchen counter from my two oldest kids Travor and Haley...

So that's exactly what we will do - help fund an Adoption Grant/Loan with it!

So cool to watch my kids "get it" - a little glimpse into how they might begin to be thinking outside of themselves...

Want to get in on the action!?!

 

Andy

Abortion on a Gift Card

A real provoking post from our friends Jenna and BJ @ World Orphans.  

Can you actually believe that the "gift" of abortions can now be given in $25, $50, $75, and $100 denominations?

Read on...

Gift cards are all the rage now-a-days for the holidays. Don't know what exactly to give that "special someone"? Try a gift card! Let the choose what they want. Just pick the store, give them an amount and they will exchange your money for a beautifully decorated plastic card that will brighten someone's Christmas!

Have you heard the news? There's a new gift card in town. Thanks to Indiana Planned Parenthood, you can now give the gift that WON'T keep on giving - the gift of abortion.

This isn't the first Christmas that infanticide has been fashionable! Though 2000 years have passed since King Herod tried to kill Jesus at His birth (aka Christmas) via the mass slaughter of innocents, the methods have only been slightly adapted. Now instead of just slaying the youngsters after birth, they wait until they are completely born, with the exception of the head, and then jam some scissors in the back of their skull and sever the brain stem.

Sound good? Well, click here if you would like to send the gift of infanticide this year to someone that you love.

"The tragedy is that almost 6,000 fewer children will be celebrating a first Christmas this year," he said, "because they were aborted in Planned Parenthood's Indiana clinics." - Mike Fichter, Indiana's Right to Life president

Are you mad yet?

As Christians if we claim to be pro-life, we also have the opportunity and privilege be a part of the SOLUTION for birth mothers - and be willing to adopt our selves or help others to adopt!

Help fund an adoption.

Give vulnerable orphan children a HOME in Ukraine or India. 

Give the Gift of LIFE and PURPOSE!

Isaac | from surviving to thriving...

Isaac - born at 24 weeks gestation | 1lb 8 oz

When God revealed to Jason and Tiffany Evans, the son whom they would adopt - they had no idea what the next several months would hold in store for them.  The Evan's were adopting a little boy who was born at just 24 weeks gestation, weighing 1 pound 8 ounces and just 13 inches long.

Isaac was hospitalized for about 5 months before the Evan's could bring him home...

Tiffany with Isaac

Now look at how Isaac is thriving in this awesome Christian family!...

Those five months were grueling for the Evan's family - but many people faithfully stood by them and Isaac's precious life. It's just a glimpse of what God's unfailing love for us...

Lifesong for Orphans had the privilege of gifting an Adoption Matching Grant to remove the financial barrier, and pay adoption expenses, so Isaac could become adopted!

give the gift of adoption to a child

Find a Need. Meet a Need. Change a Nation

Gary Ringger and I had the privilege of being in Copan, Honduras this week with some of my heroes - Guy & Angie Henry - who've been missionaries for TOLM for the last 13 years. (Lifesong for Orphans will be partnering with them on some new projects in the near future - stay tuned.)

They are serving over 400 orphaned, poor and vulnerable children - through their Plan Escalon, which encompasses: the children's home, Christian school, church, and micro-enterprise. 

The gospel of Jesus Christ is clearly central in all they do!

• About 70% of the children they serve come to saving faith in  Jesus Christ

• All of their current 40+ staff members were formerly poor children, who have become leaders through Plan Escalon, and now are "giving back" by serving on staff!

Find a Need.  Meet a Need. Change a Nation!

Andy