Night of Rejoicing / Foster Care
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Every aspect of foster care is composed of equal parts good and bad, joy and sorrow, beauty and brokenness.
Every aspect of foster care is composed of equal parts good and bad, joy and sorrow, beauty and brokenness.
It’s a good day when a child is placed in your home, a transition representing safety, security, and an opportunity for that child to be loved and cared for in a way they likely wouldn’t have experienced otherwise.
It’s indeed a good day when a child is placed in your home—but it’s at the same time a really bad day: a day marred by hurt and brokenness, a day in which, though so much gain has been made available to a child, loss has ultimately led them to this point.
In too many cases a recurring cycle of family brokenness has perpetuated itself into the lives of the next generation—abuse, neglect, and/or abandonment have become a part of their story.”
It was never God's intent for children to be without a family. It was also never His intent for the government to be the solution to a problem that only the Church could solve.
It was never God's intent for children to be without a family. It was also never His intent for the government to be the solution to a problem that only the Church could solve.
Foster care is a Church problem, not a state child welfare problem. It is a Gospel issue first, not a government issue.
Kids in foster care are not the government’s kids, they are God’s kids and therefore the Church’s responsibility
The Church has both the duty and privilege to speak on behalf of and stand for the sake of those who cannot speak and stand for themselves because that is exactly what God has done for us through Jesus. That’s the Gospel.
We are thankful for Families for Families. You have helped this church live out this Word that we love so dearly.
God has done a special work in our church.
God has done a special work in our church.
Our ministry of foster care has taken our worship service out of this room and put it outside of court rooms.
Our ministry of foster care has take our prayers for the good of our community and put feet to them.
Our ministry of foster care has brought so much joy into the life of our church one child at a time.
Our ministry of foster care has changed the culture of our church in helping us see the more we care in the responsibility of caring for the next generation the more we share in the joy as well.
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Then I begin to see people from your church…
Plenty of excuses of why we can’t show up for others.
Plenty of excuses of why we can’t show up for others.
In Scripture we find as one of the first excuses for sin is denying that we have a responsibility for our brother.
Am I my brothers keeper?
Yes.
10 As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.
Reminder of God’s heart for the fatherless.
Reminder of God’s heart for the fatherless.
27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
5 A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
6 God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
9 The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
10 Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
11 For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.
19 Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
10 And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.
40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
3 Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
Ask the men to join men.
Chose this last verse. The Bible language for orphan or those in need of care. There is no doubt that the women of this church carry a heavy load in regard of the care of children. I am not marginalizing this. But this is a battle that should be fought by men. Men of the book. Let us renew our commitment to the cause.
