How do I love the folks over at 147 Million Orphans?

  Let me count the ways...

147 Million Orphans mission is 3-fold-first to raise awareness about the worldwide orphan crisis, to help those children with food, water and medicine, and lastly to aid families who are adopting with fundraising.  We are offering a special discount on selected 147 shirts to help raise money for our adoption. To check it out click here!

From https://www.147millionorphans.com/

STATISTICS … DON’T GET CAUGHT UP IN THE NUMBER, BUT IN THE CHILDREN !!!!

• Did you know there are hundreds of millions of  children worldwide who have lost one or both parents.
• Every 14 seconds an AIDS death leaves another child orphaned.
• Approximately 88 million orphans live in Asia.
• Approximately 45 million orphans live in Africa.
• Approximately 14 million orphans live in Latin America & the Caribbean.
• Approximately 1 million children live in public care in Central & Eastern Europe
• More than 800,000 children pass through America’s foster care system each year.

These statistics do not even include the UNKNOWN children living orphaned both here and abroad that go uncounted, unnoticed and unloved.

James 1:27 “Pure and lasting religion in the sight of God our Father means that we must care for the orphans and widows in their troubles  and refuse to let the world corrupt us.”

 

Love this song... "Blessings"

by Laura Song

 We pray for blessings

We pray for peace

Comfort for family, protection while we sleep

We pray for healing, for prosperity

We pray for Your mighty hand to ease our suffering

All the while, You hear each spoken need

Yet love us way too much to give us lesser things

'Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops

What if Your healing comes through tears

What if a thousand sleepless nights

Are what it takes to know You’re near

What if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise

We pray for wisdom

Your voice to hear

And we cry in anger when we cannot feel You near

We doubt Your goodness, we doubt Your love

As if every promise from Your Word is not enough

All the while, You hear each desperate plea

And long that we'd have faith to believe

'Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops

What if Your healing comes through tears

What if a thousand sleepless nights

Are what it takes to know You’re near

And what if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise

When friends betray us

When darkness seems to win

We know that pain reminds this heart

That this is not, this is not our home

It's not our home

'Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops

What if Your healing comes through tears

And what if a thousand sleepless nights

Are what it takes to know You’re near

What if my greatest disappointments

Or the aching of this life

Is the revealing of a greater thirst this world can’t satisfy

And what if trials of this life

The rain, the storms, the hardest nights

Are Your mercies in disguise