Treasured Pearls: Life Changes

Friday, March 12, 2010

Life Changes

I know, it is difficult to make life changes. We are starting out small. The boys and I went to a Michael W. Smith concert. I had been praying about how to live out God's command to take care of the poor. At the concert, a video from Compassion International was shown and those who were interested in sponsoring a child were handed a packet. We received a packet for a child born in 1998. I knew then that God wanted us to sponsor FOUR children - one for each of our kids. This is the first (of many I hope) step towards living a more Radical Christianity for Jesus.

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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/