Treasured Pearls: Radical Christianity

Friday, February 26, 2010

Radical Christianity

I have been convicted that I am not living as Christ has called me to live. I have come to this conclusion from listening to a sermon series by David Platt who is the Sr. Pastor at The Church at Brook Hills. You can hear this series Radical Christianity here

God has called me to live in this world but not to live LIKE this world. If anyone saw how I am living my life, I doubt they would think I live much different than those around me who aren't Christians. I am going to begin to chronicle what this change means in my life on this blog.

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Orphan Statistics

Inter-country adoption has decreased 59 percent from its high in 2004, due primarily to restrictions by sending countries.
81.5 million Americans have considered adoption. If just 1 in 500 of these adults adopted, every waiting child would have a permanent family.
Every year more than 23,000 children age out of foster care, leaving them without families of their own.
The average waiting child is 7.5 years old.
Last year, nearly 9,000 children were adopted internationally
Of the estimated 238,280 children who exited foster care during 2013, the median amount of time spent in care was 21.8 months.
In 2013, California and Texas were the two U.S. states with the most children in public foster care waiting for adoption.
As of 2013, an estimated 17.7 million children worldwide had lost one or both parents to AIDS. Most of these children live in sub-Saharan Africa.
The births of nearly 230 million children under age 5 worldwide (about one in three) have never been recorded, depriving them of their right to a name and nationality
http://showhope.org/9-stats-about-the-orphan-crisis/