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April 9, 2010
Mission Field – Of The Fatherless
EARS TO HEAR is the radio ministry of FAMILIES. BY GOD. For EARS TO HEAR, here’s Tim Glisson.
The Greek word for sin; hamartia means to “miss the mark”, and many metaphors spring to mind. But a common one is the archers task: to shoot a bulls-eye or miss; close doesn’t count is the idea.
So it is with America’s Child Welfare System, which has plenty of sins to choose from.
But rather than sit around and complain about how the system itself oppresses kids; or grouse how if its workers did less paperwork and more legwork, kids would have families to raise them instead of psychiatrists. Rather than gripe about how bueuraucratic the system is, how controlling it is, how demeaning it is and how ugly adopting kids from America can get, how about we look at the fields of America’s fatherless in the same way we look at any other mission field.
What if each church in America was a sending church – to America?
What if each church in America designated a mission team – a husband and wife – to go into America’s fields of the fatherless and make a difference for Jesus one life at a time? Only this time, through adoption.
What if we raised support for them as a congregation? What if we prayed for them, daily? What if we were as intently interested in their activities as when we send a team to Guatamala? What if we craved their newsletter; hung their photos on our refrigerator; and told all our friends about them, all the time?
What if? There wouldn’t be 120 thousand orphans desperately waiting adoption in America anymore.
If you have EARS to HEAR God’s heart for His children, please visit our website at FAMILIESBYGOD.org. For EARS TO HEAR, I’m Tim Glisson.
