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"On earth there are 143 million orphaned children, 11 million who starve to death or die from preventable diseases, 8.5 million who work as child slaves, prostitutes or under other horrific conditions and 2.3 million who live with HIV. That makes 164.8 million needy children in this world. At first glance that looks like a big number. BUT 2.1 BILLION people on this earth proclaim to be Christians. If only 8 percent of the Christians would care for (adopt) one more child, there would not be any statistics left!" -Katie J. Davis (from the book, "Kisses from Katie") 
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John Spencer said…
Preach it sister. In the UK we have 12,000 children up for fostering and adoption and 12,000 evangelical churches. Do the math. We hope to start our journey when Levi goes to school. Pray for our country though. Due to one case of sibling abuse they are now saying no foster/adopted sibling can share a room with another foster/adopted sibling. People just don't have the rooms and so families are being split and the waiting list just got a whole lot longer. Pray for a change in the hearts (and policies) of social workers.
08 July, 2012
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