{"id":301232,"date":"2006-11-15T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-15T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/%series%\/the-christians-response-to-the-fatherle\/"},"modified":"2024-10-07T22:42:30","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T02:42:30","slug":"the-christians-response-to-the-fatherle","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/the-christians-response-to-the-fatherle\/","title":{"rendered":"The Christian&#8217;s Response to the Fatherle"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dennis and Barbara talk about three key points to consider as we ask God how we can be advocates for orphans worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":294104,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"https:\/\/web.familylifetoday.com\/fl2006-11-15.mp3","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"00:","filesize":"11.35M","filesize_raw":"11902896","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":""},"categories":[2818],"tags":[2712,4475],"podcast_series":[7485],"cwp_profile":[3051],"series":[2101],"class_list":["post-301232","podcast","type-podcast","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adoption-and-orphans","tag-adoption","tag-orphans","podcast_series-voice-of-the-orphan","cwp_profile-dennis-and-barbara-rainey","series-familylife-today"],"acf":[],"episode_featured_image":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1001\/2024\/09\/FLT-Podcast-Cover-2-508x508-3.jpg?w=508","episode_player_image":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1001\/2023\/02\/image-scaled.jpg","download_link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast-download\/301232\/the-christians-response-to-the-fatherle","player_link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast-player\/301232\/the-christians-response-to-the-fatherle","audio_player":null,"episode_data":{"playerMode":"light","subscribeUrls":{"apple_podcasts":{"key":"apple_podcasts","url":"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/familylife-today\/id212174303?mt=2&app=podcast","label":"Apple Podcasts","class":"apple_podcasts","icon":"apple-podcasts.png"},"google_podcasts":{"key":"google_podcasts","url":"","label":"Google Podcasts","class":"google_podcasts","icon":"google-podcasts.png"},"spotify":{"key":"spotify","url":"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/0j5UaKdQOHQCuo1bt0ebEm","label":"Spotify","class":"spotify","icon":"spotify.png"},"youtube":{"key":"youtube","url":"","label":"YouTube","class":"youtube","icon":"youtube.png"}},"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/feed\/podcast\/familylife-today","embedCode":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"GzK22oIIKl\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/the-christians-response-to-the-fatherle\/\">The Christian&#8217;s Response to the Fatherle<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/the-christians-response-to-the-fatherle\/embed\/#?secret=GzK22oIIKl\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" title=\"&#8220;The Christian&#8217;s Response to the Fatherle&#8221; &#8212; FamilyLife\u00ae - A Cru Ministry\" data-secret=\"GzK22oIIKl\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script>\n\/*! 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Lewis, \"Aslan is on the move.\"\u00a0 God is on the move.\u00a0 He is doing something powerful, unique, and it's a great opportunity for families.\u00a0 This is a family-made opportunity for you to join in with God and, as Henry Blackaby talks about, one of the great privileges of life is to join God in what He's doing and Christ Him in the process.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0What a great privilege we have today around the issue of orphans.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0And this is something that is on the heart of God and, in fact, you had a chance to speak to that subject recently at your home church with your wife Barbara.\u00a0 You talked about how we ought to respond as the body of Christ to the needs of the orphan, and you had five points, and we've already heard this week the first two of those.\u00a0 We're actually going to pick up in the middle of point 2.\u00a0 What was the first one?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Well, the first one is that we need to respond to this crisis by pleading with the Father for the fatherless. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0We need to be prayerful as we approach this subject.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Jeremiah 33:3 \u2013 \"Call to me, and I will answer you and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.\"\u00a0 And you know what?\u00a0 In this situation, we need God to act.\u00a0 This is beyond any human organization or institution or even group of institutions to be able to address.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0The second thing that we challenged folks to do in this message is to find ways to go near orphans, and I quoted John 14:18 where Jesus said, \"I will not leave you as orphans.\u00a0 I will come to you.\u00a0 The God of the Universe came near.\"\u00a0 And you know what?\u00a0 He modeled how He cared for his orphans.\u00a0 Shouldn't we model how we should care for His orphans as well?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0You have had opportunities to go near even in recent days while you were in South Africa recently, you visited orphanages over there, and your wife, Barbara, and some of your daughters have had opportunities to go near and, in fact, as we pick up part 2 of your message, Barbara is talking about a recent opportunity when she and your daughter, Laura, went to care for orphans in China.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBarbara:\u00a0[from audiotape]\u00a0 On our second trip to China in 2004, Laura and I were part of a team of doctors and nurses.\u00a0 The group was organized by FamilyLife's Hope for Orphans ministry.\u00a0 We spent a week in the city of Tanjin, which is a city of millions of people, in China, giving each of the \u2013 over 300 children in just one orphanage, medical exams.\u00a0 They were evaluated, and we began to make charts and keep records for all of these kids, because they'd never been treated medically.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0All the non-medical people on our team were assigned each to a doctor as an assistant.\u00a0 Laura worked with Dr. Paul, who was a neonatologist, and they weighed and measured and took vital statistics on every child in that orphanage.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0But there were two of us in our group who were sort of leftovers.\u00a0 We weren't assigned to a specific doctor, and we didn't have a specific job, and so we eagerly, actually, asked if we could just go into the baby room, and could we just hold babies all day every day, and they said \"Yes.\"\u00a0 And so we did.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0We held babies with cleft palates who had not had surgery yet.\u00a0 We held babies who had heart conditions and who probably weren't going to live.\u00a0 We held babies who seemed perfectly normal, and I remember thinking, \"Why are you here in this orphanage?\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0But there was one little tiny baby that I couldn't stay away from.\u00a0 She was so little, like a brand-newborn baby that I couldn't just let her lay in her crib, so I held her as often as the workers would let me, and I began to worry about her.\u00a0 She didn't each much when they fed her because as soon as she quit eating, they would lay her back down again, and I knew she needed more.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0When her turn came the next day to be weighed and evaluated, I followed her over to the clinic like a mother hen to wait anxiously for the results.\u00a0 She weighed five pounds, and she was six weeks old.\u00a0 By now, my friend and I, Lynn, had named her Sarah.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0The next day our group went to another town to do some evaluation on another group of children, but when we got back to the orphanage that afternoon, Lynn and I made a beeline for the baby room.\u00a0 We had to go check up on our little baby.\u00a0 I went straight to Sarah's little crib, and even though the room was very dark, as it was every day, I bent over that little crib, and I could tell immediately that something was wrong.\u00a0 Little Sarah was turning blue, and she wasn't breathing very well. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0I picked her up, got the workers' attention, the workers grabbed her from me and rushed off.\u00a0 We went and got the doctors, including Dr. Paul, who managed to intercept her, got her to a hospital, resuscitated her and hooked her up to an IV.\u00a0 Before we left the orphanage at the end of that trip, Little Sarah was still in the hospital, but we knew she was going to live, and we were relieved.\u00a0 We also managed to get her vital information including her Chinese name and date of birth.\u00a0 We wanted to keep track of her after we'd come back to the States, and we also hoped and prayed that someday somebody might adopt her.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Sarah is now the daughter of Dr. Paul, the neonatologist who saved her life, and she lives in Texas.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0There is a third way that we can obey God, and I'm not going to spend a lot of time on this, but it's give sacrificially.\u00a0 There are plenty of us who may be too old to adopt, and maybe not have the ability to go, but we can give.\u00a0 We can be a part of being tethered financially to the orphan community.\u00a0 Maybe it's to an orphanage, maybe it's to a child.\u00a0 I'd like to encourage you to consider funding a child as a family through a relief organization.\u00a0 Just make sure that that relief organization is a member of the ECFA, the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability.\u00a0 It's the stamp of approval that your dollars are going to be used for their intended purpose.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0We did this a number of years ago, in fact, gave up a meal once a month when the kids were little and ate rice and took the money that we would have spent on that meal to sponsor a child in another country.\u00a0 Maybe you need to come alongside an orphanage, financially consider supporting them, an adoption agency, a crisis pregnancy center, or a ministry that is an advocate for orphans.\u00a0 And I'd like to challenge this body with yet another thought.\u00a0 There is a new kind of church emerging across the country that has a heart for the orphan and wants to pay 100 percent of the adoption expenses for any family that wants to adopt.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0John Piper and his church at Bethlehem Baptist in Minnesota has got a huge heart for the orphan, and there are others like him.\u00a0 Some of them have seen literally hundreds of orphans adopted through their church, and it's cost the adoptive family nothing financially.\u00a0 Give sacrificially.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0The fourth way that we have to obey our Heavenly Father's command to care for the orphan is to help empty the state's foster care system.\u00a0 I want to introduce you to a couple who didn't empty the system but who are, indeed, foster care heroes.\u00a0 Charlie and Cookie Wilson have been members of Fellowship for a quarter century.\u00a0 They have been quietly performing pure religion by caring for the needs of the orphans.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0They have a son and two daughters, one daughter who is blind and the other who came to them while they had four other children on Easter, but they decided they could take one more.\u00a0 She was supposed to have stayed only three or four days but instead she stayed three years.\u00a0 And then they adopted her.\u00a0 Her name is Sarah.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Eight percent newborns, one after another, they kept taking care of them.\u00a0 They gave the boys a blue Bible and the girls a pink one.\u00a0 Who knows where those Bibles have ended up?\u00a0 Eighty-two children from the foster care system.\u00a0 To me, that is pure and undefiled religion.\u00a0 Would you all stand up?\u00a0 Ann, Charlie, Cookie.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[applause] \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0One last thought before we get to our final point \u2013 there are 415 adoptable children in the foster care system in the state of Arkansas.\u00a0 What if this church and a couple dozen others decided to empty that out?\u00a0 Do you think that's a noble cause that we ought to consider as a Christian community?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0There is one last way we can get involved.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBarbara:\u00a0Number five is become pro-life and pro-adoption.\u00a0 The church has, for many, many years been very strongly pro-life, but we've not been equally pro-adoption.\u00a0 Alvin J. Schmidt writes in his book, \"Under the Influence,\" how Christianity transformed civilization, and in the first century, infanticide, which is the killing of newborn infants, was very widespread.\u00a0 But the Christians, the new believers, in the first century after Christ opposed this practice as their response to honor God's command against murder.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0They also practiced Romans 12:2, which say, \"Do not be conformed to the pattern of this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.\"\u00a0 And so they frequently took in these castaway children into their homes and adopted them.\u00a0 They saw child abandonment as a form of murder.\u00a0 Adoption is a Christian response to the results of sin and depravity.\u00a0 Adoption, as we've already talked about, is God's idea.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0As a teenager, I dreamed of adopting a child someday, but after Dennis and I got married, we soon began having children, and we realized in several short years that we didn't have much trouble getting pregnant.\u00a0 So we didn't talk much about adoption in those early years.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0And, frankly, I'd never thought about adoption in my entire life until I married her.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBarbara:\u00a0But after eight years and four children, we still wanted to expand or family, but I wasn't \u2013 I just wasn't interested in getting pregnant again, and so we talked about adoption, and we decided we would see if God might add to our family through that avenue.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0And we kept talking about adoption.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBarbara:\u00a0Yeah.\u00a0 One day in 1983 we got a call.\u00a0 There was a baby available if we were still interested, and we were, and so our adoption journey began.\u00a0 This is a photo of the day that she came home, and this is a photo of her with me and one of our sweet little daughter with her daddy.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Today this little girl is 23.\u00a0 She is married to Jason and lives in Chicago.\u00a0 Because she had a mommy and a daddy and a stable home, she knows what marriage and family is supposed to look like.\u00a0 She knows the basics of how to be a mother and a wife.\u00a0 She, most importantly, knows Jesus Christ as her Savior and Lord.\u00a0 You see, adoption is another form of evangelism.\u00a0 It's the way we, as the church, the family of God, can reach out to children's lives around the world and introduce them to the Gospel of Christ.\u00a0 Solving the problem of orphans is challenging, but adoption is one of the solutions.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Secondly, adoption is the normal Christian life.\u00a0 God adopts us lost children into His family, and He puts us where we can learn of Him and His ways. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And, number three, adoption should only be done if God calls you to do it.\u00a0 See, the Bible doesn't command us, as believers, to adopt, but it does command us to visit and care for the orphans in their distress and, for some of us, that will mean choosing to adopt some of these orphans.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0For Dennis and I, raising an adopted daughter has been one of the greatest blessings of our lives.\u00a0 It has also been one of the greatest challenges.\u00a0 Without Deborah, our lives would have been insulated, predictable, and safe.\u00a0 Without Deborah, we would have not understood God's heart of love and compassion for the lost and the lonely \u2013 the orphan and the fatherless.\u00a0 Without Deborah, we would have missed on our lives and on our family's lives the touch of God's hand, the touch of the Master's hand.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Our adoption story is not a fairy tale.\u00a0 Most adoptions aren't.\u00a0 God's adoption story of us is not a fairy tale, either.\u00a0 Most of us have wandered from his love; most of us have rebelled against Him and broken His heart.\u00a0 But the story is not finished.\u00a0 Until we reach heaven, there is much work to be done for the millions and millions of fatherless around the world, and it is God's adopted children, you and me, who must go and meet this need.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0I got a glimpse into what kind of culture we have when I had the privilege about a year ago to speak at a crisis pregnancy center fundraiser.\u00a0 In the process, I interviewed the ladies who give leadership to that CPC in North Little Rock, and I asked them about how many girls they touched on an annual basis.\u00a0 It was about 900.\u00a0 Of that 900, how many were pregnant that you ended up helping, one way or the other?\u00a0 They said 300.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And I said, of the 300, how many of those 300 placed their babies in homes for adoption?\u00a0 Their heads fell, and they held up one finger.\u00a0 You see, we are a pro-abortion culture but you know what?\u00a0 I wonder if the reason why Roe v. Wade has not been overturned is because the Christian community has not been pro-adoption.\u00a0 Because if it was overturned, what would happen to the literally millions of babies that would be born who would no longer be aborted, and who would not become children of single parents who would need to be adopted.\u00a0 Is the Christian community ready for that?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Well, once again, we have been listening to part 2 of a message that you and your wife Barbara shared recently with your home church, Fellowship Bible Church in Little Rock on the needs of the orphan.\u00a0 I don't know how many of our listeners have thought about orphan care as a pro-life issue, but it's fundamentally a pro-life issue.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Absolutely, in fact, I have to believe, Bob, if the Christian community would become unashamedly pro-adoption, I think our message of pro-life would have so much more integrity, so much more of a ring of compassion, and as I concluded this message, I made one single point.\u00a0 I said, \"You know what?\u00a0 You can't do everything, but you and your family can do one thing.\"\u00a0 What is your one thing?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0And adoption may be a response, but it's not the only response.\u00a0 We're talking about meeting the needs of the orphan and some families \u2013 in fact, most families \u2013 won't adopt, but all families can respond to that need.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0And one of the great needs today, Bob, I am convinced more than ever, what needs to happen in every church in America is that we need an orphan care and adoption ministry in every church.\u00a0 If we had that kind of ministry in every church, I believe within 10 years we would see a dramatic turnaround worldwide when it comes to the needs of orphans.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Would it mean that we've solved all the problems concerning orphans worldwide?\u00a0 Absolutely not.\u00a0 I mean, 143 million?\u00a0 That's like several nations that don't have parents, don't have families.\u00a0 The needs associated with that are staggering.\u00a0 But you know what?\u00a0 There's over 300,000 churches in America.\u00a0 What if there were 300,000 churches that had orphan care and adoption ministries in their church?\u00a0 I believe we'd make a huge impact, and I think instead of seeing only 100,000 children adopted in America annually, I think we could see that number increasing substantially in the coming years.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Our team has put together a new book called \"Launching an Orphan's Ministry in Your Church,\" that provides a step-by-step guide for a church to do just like that and, in fact, Michael Easley, the president of Moody Bible Institute, shares the same vision you were just talking about.\u00a0 On the back of the book he says, \"If every church in America would prayerfully set a goal to establish a ministry to care for orphans, it would literally change the world.\u00a0 And I think he's right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0This book offers a step-by-step guide to walk a church through the process of starting a ministry and includes a DVD that can be used to help launch this in your church, help cast a vision for an orphan's ministry in your church.\u00a0 You can request a copy of this book when you go to our website, FamilyLife.com, and click the red button in the middle of the screen that says \"Go.\"\u00a0 That will take you right to a page where there is more information not only about this book and the enclosed DVD, but there is also information about how to get a copy of the message we've been listening to this week from you and your wife, Barbara.\u00a0 It's available on DVD on our website as well.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Again, the site is FamilyLife.com.\u00a0 You click the red button that says \"Go,\" in the middle of the screen, and that will take you right to the page where there is information on how to order these resources, and you will find a link there to the Voice of the Orphan website.\u00a0 It's VoiceOfTheOrphan.org, and on that website you'll see a listing of all of the ministries that share this vision for caring for the needs of the orphan \u2013 Focus on the Family, Shaohannah's Hope, and more than four dozen other ministries that have come together to say, \"Let's do something about this worldwide crisis.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0When you go to the Voice of the Orphan website, and, again, it's VoiceOfTheOrphan.org, you can download a document that includes 10 ways every Christian can care for the orphan and the waiting child, and that's available free from the Voice of the Orphan website, VoiceOfTheOrphan.org, and again there's a link to that website on our site, FamilyLife.com.\u00a0 If you need help with any of these resources, and you don't have Internet availability, simply call our toll-free number.\u00a0 It's 1-800-F-as-in-family, L-as-in-life, and then the word TODAY, and we'll get someone on our team to help you get these resources sent out to you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0I want to say a quick word of thanks today, Dennis, if I can, to those folks who help support the ministry of FamilyLife Today.\u00a0 I know for many of them they share our vision for seeing marriages and families strengthened, being able to provide practical, biblical help for couples and families all across the country and around the world through this daily radio program on this station and on stations in other cities as well, and I want you to know that when you help support the ministry of FamilyLife Today, you are also helping us get the word out about the need of the orphan, and you're helping us mobilize organizations and churches to help respond to that need.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0So we appreciate your financial support.\u00a0 We're listener-supported, and your contributions are vital for the ongoing ministry of FamilyLife Today.\u00a0 This month when you make a donation of any amount, we'd love to send you a prayer guide for parents called \"While They Were Sleeping.\"\u00a0 It gives you 12 different topics you can be praying for for your children or your grandchildren along with suggested prayers each week as you focus on a different topic.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Request a copy of that prayer guide when you make your donation online.\u00a0 And you do that by filling out a form online, and then you come to a keycode box.\u00a0 Type in the word \"pray,\" p-r-a-y, and we'll know to send you a copy of this hardback book that will help guide your praying for your children, or simply call 1-800-FLTODAY, make a donation over the phone and mention that you'd like a copy of the book, \"While They Were Sleeping,\" or the prayer guide for parents, and we'll be happy to send that out to you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Again, it's our way of saying thank you for your financial support of this ministry.\u00a0 We appreciate your partnership with us.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Well, tomorrow our friend, Steven Curtis Chapman, is going to join us, along with his daughter, Emily.\u00a0 You may have heard him tell the story of how he and his wife, Mary Beth, decided to adopt their child, Shaohannah at the urging of their daughter, Emily.\u00a0 Tomorrow we'll hear Emily's side of that story, and I hope you can be with us for that.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0I want to thank our engineer today, Keith Lynch, and our entire broadcast production team.\u00a0 On behalf of our host, Dennis Rainey, I'm Bob Lepine.\u00a0 We'll see you next time for another edition of FamilyLife Today. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0FamilyLife Today is a production of FamilyLife of Little Rock, Arkansas, a ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ.\u00a0 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and Barbara talk about three key points to consider as we ask God how we can be advocates for orphans worldwide.","meta_box":{"show_notes":"","transcript_url":"https:\/\/transcript.familylifetoday.com\/fl2006-11-15.pdf","transcript_content":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Shouldn't the things that are on the heart of God also be on the heart of His children?\u00a0 Here's Barbara Rainey.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBarbara:\u00a0[from videotape]\u00a0 The church has, for many, many years been very strongly pro-life, but we've not been equally pro-adoption.\u00a0 Adoption is God's idea.\u00a0 Adoption is a Christian response to the results of sin and depravity.\u00a0 See, Bible doesn't command us, believers, to adopt, but it does command us to visit and care for the orphans in their distress, and for some of us that will mean choosing to adopt.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0This is FamilyLife Today for Wednesday, November 15th.\u00a0 Our host is the president of FamilyLife, Dennis Rainey, and I'm Bob Lepine.\u00a0 What can we do to show our concern for the millions of children growing up worldwide without a mom or a dad?\u00a0 Stay tuned.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And welcome to FamilyLife Today, thanks for joining us on the Wednesday edition.\u00a0 This week our focus is on those who need our attention, need our help, who need hope, and it's also on a partnership that has emerged with a lot of partners all joining hands together to say, \"Let's get together and do something about this.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0It's a rally cry called \"The Voice of the Orphan,\" and it's a call to the Christian community to say, you know what?\u00a0 Find something that you can do on behalf of the orphan.\u00a0 Perhaps it's here in America around the foster care system.\u00a0 Maybe it's overseas, maybe it's through your local church, maybe it's just you as a family, but find a way to express the heart of God for an orphan.\u00a0 Because there is a God-sized opportunity today that is demanding faith, obedience, and I believe sacrifice of the Christian community if we're going to make a difference.\u00a0 Over 143 million orphans worldwide, many created by the HIV-AIDS crisis, tsunamis, earthquakes, civil wars, lots of things taking place, Bob, that contribute to this, but the bottom line it's an opportunity for the Christian church.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0This is something that's been on your heart for a number of years not only as an adoptive parent but in the last several years FamilyLife has established a ministry called \"Hope for Orphans,\" and in recent days other ministries have developed a heart for this issue as well, and it's all kind of happened independently, and everybody kind of looked around and said, \"Really?\u00a0 This is happening with you?\u00a0 Well, it's happening with us, too,\" and that's what led to all of these organizations coming together and saying, \"We can do more together than we can do independently.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0I'm going to tell you something, Bob.\u00a0 I've been in ministry 35 years, and there's a handful of times that I can count where the footprints of God were all over something, and this whole issue of orphans, I\u2019m telling you, in the words of C.S. Lewis, \"Aslan is on the move.\"\u00a0 God is on the move.\u00a0 He is doing something powerful, unique, and it's a great opportunity for families.\u00a0 This is a family-made opportunity for you to join in with God and, as Henry Blackaby talks about, one of the great privileges of life is to join God in what He's doing and Christ Him in the process.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0What a great privilege we have today around the issue of orphans.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0And this is something that is on the heart of God and, in fact, you had a chance to speak to that subject recently at your home church with your wife Barbara.\u00a0 You talked about how we ought to respond as the body of Christ to the needs of the orphan, and you had five points, and we've already heard this week the first two of those.\u00a0 We're actually going to pick up in the middle of point 2.\u00a0 What was the first one?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Well, the first one is that we need to respond to this crisis by pleading with the Father for the fatherless. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0We need to be prayerful as we approach this subject.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Jeremiah 33:3 \u2013 \"Call to me, and I will answer you and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.\"\u00a0 And you know what?\u00a0 In this situation, we need God to act.\u00a0 This is beyond any human organization or institution or even group of institutions to be able to address.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0The second thing that we challenged folks to do in this message is to find ways to go near orphans, and I quoted John 14:18 where Jesus said, \"I will not leave you as orphans.\u00a0 I will come to you.\u00a0 The God of the Universe came near.\"\u00a0 And you know what?\u00a0 He modeled how He cared for his orphans.\u00a0 Shouldn't we model how we should care for His orphans as well?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0You have had opportunities to go near even in recent days while you were in South Africa recently, you visited orphanages over there, and your wife, Barbara, and some of your daughters have had opportunities to go near and, in fact, as we pick up part 2 of your message, Barbara is talking about a recent opportunity when she and your daughter, Laura, went to care for orphans in China.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBarbara:\u00a0[from audiotape]\u00a0 On our second trip to China in 2004, Laura and I were part of a team of doctors and nurses.\u00a0 The group was organized by FamilyLife's Hope for Orphans ministry.\u00a0 We spent a week in the city of Tanjin, which is a city of millions of people, in China, giving each of the \u2013 over 300 children in just one orphanage, medical exams.\u00a0 They were evaluated, and we began to make charts and keep records for all of these kids, because they'd never been treated medically.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0All the non-medical people on our team were assigned each to a doctor as an assistant.\u00a0 Laura worked with Dr. Paul, who was a neonatologist, and they weighed and measured and took vital statistics on every child in that orphanage.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0But there were two of us in our group who were sort of leftovers.\u00a0 We weren't assigned to a specific doctor, and we didn't have a specific job, and so we eagerly, actually, asked if we could just go into the baby room, and could we just hold babies all day every day, and they said \"Yes.\"\u00a0 And so we did.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0We held babies with cleft palates who had not had surgery yet.\u00a0 We held babies who had heart conditions and who probably weren't going to live.\u00a0 We held babies who seemed perfectly normal, and I remember thinking, \"Why are you here in this orphanage?\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0But there was one little tiny baby that I couldn't stay away from.\u00a0 She was so little, like a brand-newborn baby that I couldn't just let her lay in her crib, so I held her as often as the workers would let me, and I began to worry about her.\u00a0 She didn't each much when they fed her because as soon as she quit eating, they would lay her back down again, and I knew she needed more.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0When her turn came the next day to be weighed and evaluated, I followed her over to the clinic like a mother hen to wait anxiously for the results.\u00a0 She weighed five pounds, and she was six weeks old.\u00a0 By now, my friend and I, Lynn, had named her Sarah.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0The next day our group went to another town to do some evaluation on another group of children, but when we got back to the orphanage that afternoon, Lynn and I made a beeline for the baby room.\u00a0 We had to go check up on our little baby.\u00a0 I went straight to Sarah's little crib, and even though the room was very dark, as it was every day, I bent over that little crib, and I could tell immediately that something was wrong.\u00a0 Little Sarah was turning blue, and she wasn't breathing very well. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0I picked her up, got the workers' attention, the workers grabbed her from me and rushed off.\u00a0 We went and got the doctors, including Dr. Paul, who managed to intercept her, got her to a hospital, resuscitated her and hooked her up to an IV.\u00a0 Before we left the orphanage at the end of that trip, Little Sarah was still in the hospital, but we knew she was going to live, and we were relieved.\u00a0 We also managed to get her vital information including her Chinese name and date of birth.\u00a0 We wanted to keep track of her after we'd come back to the States, and we also hoped and prayed that someday somebody might adopt her.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Sarah is now the daughter of Dr. Paul, the neonatologist who saved her life, and she lives in Texas.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0There is a third way that we can obey God, and I'm not going to spend a lot of time on this, but it's give sacrificially.\u00a0 There are plenty of us who may be too old to adopt, and maybe not have the ability to go, but we can give.\u00a0 We can be a part of being tethered financially to the orphan community.\u00a0 Maybe it's to an orphanage, maybe it's to a child.\u00a0 I'd like to encourage you to consider funding a child as a family through a relief organization.\u00a0 Just make sure that that relief organization is a member of the ECFA, the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability.\u00a0 It's the stamp of approval that your dollars are going to be used for their intended purpose.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0We did this a number of years ago, in fact, gave up a meal once a month when the kids were little and ate rice and took the money that we would have spent on that meal to sponsor a child in another country.\u00a0 Maybe you need to come alongside an orphanage, financially consider supporting them, an adoption agency, a crisis pregnancy center, or a ministry that is an advocate for orphans.\u00a0 And I'd like to challenge this body with yet another thought.\u00a0 There is a new kind of church emerging across the country that has a heart for the orphan and wants to pay 100 percent of the adoption expenses for any family that wants to adopt.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0John Piper and his church at Bethlehem Baptist in Minnesota has got a huge heart for the orphan, and there are others like him.\u00a0 Some of them have seen literally hundreds of orphans adopted through their church, and it's cost the adoptive family nothing financially.\u00a0 Give sacrificially.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0The fourth way that we have to obey our Heavenly Father's command to care for the orphan is to help empty the state's foster care system.\u00a0 I want to introduce you to a couple who didn't empty the system but who are, indeed, foster care heroes.\u00a0 Charlie and Cookie Wilson have been members of Fellowship for a quarter century.\u00a0 They have been quietly performing pure religion by caring for the needs of the orphans.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0They have a son and two daughters, one daughter who is blind and the other who came to them while they had four other children on Easter, but they decided they could take one more.\u00a0 She was supposed to have stayed only three or four days but instead she stayed three years.\u00a0 And then they adopted her.\u00a0 Her name is Sarah.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Eight percent newborns, one after another, they kept taking care of them.\u00a0 They gave the boys a blue Bible and the girls a pink one.\u00a0 Who knows where those Bibles have ended up?\u00a0 Eighty-two children from the foster care system.\u00a0 To me, that is pure and undefiled religion.\u00a0 Would you all stand up?\u00a0 Ann, Charlie, Cookie.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[applause] \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0One last thought before we get to our final point \u2013 there are 415 adoptable children in the foster care system in the state of Arkansas.\u00a0 What if this church and a couple dozen others decided to empty that out?\u00a0 Do you think that's a noble cause that we ought to consider as a Christian community?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0There is one last way we can get involved.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBarbara:\u00a0Number five is become pro-life and pro-adoption.\u00a0 The church has, for many, many years been very strongly pro-life, but we've not been equally pro-adoption.\u00a0 Alvin J. Schmidt writes in his book, \"Under the Influence,\" how Christianity transformed civilization, and in the first century, infanticide, which is the killing of newborn infants, was very widespread.\u00a0 But the Christians, the new believers, in the first century after Christ opposed this practice as their response to honor God's command against murder.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0They also practiced Romans 12:2, which say, \"Do not be conformed to the pattern of this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.\"\u00a0 And so they frequently took in these castaway children into their homes and adopted them.\u00a0 They saw child abandonment as a form of murder.\u00a0 Adoption is a Christian response to the results of sin and depravity.\u00a0 Adoption, as we've already talked about, is God's idea.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0As a teenager, I dreamed of adopting a child someday, but after Dennis and I got married, we soon began having children, and we realized in several short years that we didn't have much trouble getting pregnant.\u00a0 So we didn't talk much about adoption in those early years.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0And, frankly, I'd never thought about adoption in my entire life until I married her.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBarbara:\u00a0But after eight years and four children, we still wanted to expand or family, but I wasn't \u2013 I just wasn't interested in getting pregnant again, and so we talked about adoption, and we decided we would see if God might add to our family through that avenue.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0And we kept talking about adoption.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBarbara:\u00a0Yeah.\u00a0 One day in 1983 we got a call.\u00a0 There was a baby available if we were still interested, and we were, and so our adoption journey began.\u00a0 This is a photo of the day that she came home, and this is a photo of her with me and one of our sweet little daughter with her daddy.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Today this little girl is 23.\u00a0 She is married to Jason and lives in Chicago.\u00a0 Because she had a mommy and a daddy and a stable home, she knows what marriage and family is supposed to look like.\u00a0 She knows the basics of how to be a mother and a wife.\u00a0 She, most importantly, knows Jesus Christ as her Savior and Lord.\u00a0 You see, adoption is another form of evangelism.\u00a0 It's the way we, as the church, the family of God, can reach out to children's lives around the world and introduce them to the Gospel of Christ.\u00a0 Solving the problem of orphans is challenging, but adoption is one of the solutions.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Secondly, adoption is the normal Christian life.\u00a0 God adopts us lost children into His family, and He puts us where we can learn of Him and His ways. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And, number three, adoption should only be done if God calls you to do it.\u00a0 See, the Bible doesn't command us, as believers, to adopt, but it does command us to visit and care for the orphans in their distress and, for some of us, that will mean choosing to adopt some of these orphans.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0For Dennis and I, raising an adopted daughter has been one of the greatest blessings of our lives.\u00a0 It has also been one of the greatest challenges.\u00a0 Without Deborah, our lives would have been insulated, predictable, and safe.\u00a0 Without Deborah, we would have not understood God's heart of love and compassion for the lost and the lonely \u2013 the orphan and the fatherless.\u00a0 Without Deborah, we would have missed on our lives and on our family's lives the touch of God's hand, the touch of the Master's hand.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Our adoption story is not a fairy tale.\u00a0 Most adoptions aren't.\u00a0 God's adoption story of us is not a fairy tale, either.\u00a0 Most of us have wandered from his love; most of us have rebelled against Him and broken His heart.\u00a0 But the story is not finished.\u00a0 Until we reach heaven, there is much work to be done for the millions and millions of fatherless around the world, and it is God's adopted children, you and me, who must go and meet this need.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0I got a glimpse into what kind of culture we have when I had the privilege about a year ago to speak at a crisis pregnancy center fundraiser.\u00a0 In the process, I interviewed the ladies who give leadership to that CPC in North Little Rock, and I asked them about how many girls they touched on an annual basis.\u00a0 It was about 900.\u00a0 Of that 900, how many were pregnant that you ended up helping, one way or the other?\u00a0 They said 300.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And I said, of the 300, how many of those 300 placed their babies in homes for adoption?\u00a0 Their heads fell, and they held up one finger.\u00a0 You see, we are a pro-abortion culture but you know what?\u00a0 I wonder if the reason why Roe v. Wade has not been overturned is because the Christian community has not been pro-adoption.\u00a0 Because if it was overturned, what would happen to the literally millions of babies that would be born who would no longer be aborted, and who would not become children of single parents who would need to be adopted.\u00a0 Is the Christian community ready for that?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Well, once again, we have been listening to part 2 of a message that you and your wife Barbara shared recently with your home church, Fellowship Bible Church in Little Rock on the needs of the orphan.\u00a0 I don't know how many of our listeners have thought about orphan care as a pro-life issue, but it's fundamentally a pro-life issue.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Absolutely, in fact, I have to believe, Bob, if the Christian community would become unashamedly pro-adoption, I think our message of pro-life would have so much more integrity, so much more of a ring of compassion, and as I concluded this message, I made one single point.\u00a0 I said, \"You know what?\u00a0 You can't do everything, but you and your family can do one thing.\"\u00a0 What is your one thing?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0And adoption may be a response, but it's not the only response.\u00a0 We're talking about meeting the needs of the orphan and some families \u2013 in fact, most families \u2013 won't adopt, but all families can respond to that need.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0And one of the great needs today, Bob, I am convinced more than ever, what needs to happen in every church in America is that we need an orphan care and adoption ministry in every church.\u00a0 If we had that kind of ministry in every church, I believe within 10 years we would see a dramatic turnaround worldwide when it comes to the needs of orphans.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Would it mean that we've solved all the problems concerning orphans worldwide?\u00a0 Absolutely not.\u00a0 I mean, 143 million?\u00a0 That's like several nations that don't have parents, don't have families.\u00a0 The needs associated with that are staggering.\u00a0 But you know what?\u00a0 There's over 300,000 churches in America.\u00a0 What if there were 300,000 churches that had orphan care and adoption ministries in their church?\u00a0 I believe we'd make a huge impact, and I think instead of seeing only 100,000 children adopted in America annually, I think we could see that number increasing substantially in the coming years.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Our team has put together a new book called \"Launching an Orphan's Ministry in Your Church,\" that provides a step-by-step guide for a church to do just like that and, in fact, Michael Easley, the president of Moody Bible Institute, shares the same vision you were just talking about.\u00a0 On the back of the book he says, \"If every church in America would prayerfully set a goal to establish a ministry to care for orphans, it would literally change the world.\u00a0 And I think he's right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0This book offers a step-by-step guide to walk a church through the process of starting a ministry and includes a DVD that can be used to help launch this in your church, help cast a vision for an orphan's ministry in your church.\u00a0 You can request a copy of this book when you go to our website, FamilyLife.com, and click the red button in the middle of the screen that says \"Go.\"\u00a0 That will take you right to a page where there is more information not only about this book and the enclosed DVD, but there is also information about how to get a copy of the message we've been listening to this week from you and your wife, Barbara.\u00a0 It's available on DVD on our website as well.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Again, the site is FamilyLife.com.\u00a0 You click the red button that says \"Go,\" in the middle of the screen, and that will take you right to the page where there is information on how to order these resources, and you will find a link there to the Voice of the Orphan website.\u00a0 It's VoiceOfTheOrphan.org, and on that website you'll see a listing of all of the ministries that share this vision for caring for the needs of the orphan \u2013 Focus on the Family, Shaohannah's Hope, and more than four dozen other ministries that have come together to say, \"Let's do something about this worldwide crisis.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0When you go to the Voice of the Orphan website, and, again, it's VoiceOfTheOrphan.org, you can download a document that includes 10 ways every Christian can care for the orphan and the waiting child, and that's available free from the Voice of the Orphan website, VoiceOfTheOrphan.org, and again there's a link to that website on our site, FamilyLife.com.\u00a0 If you need help with any of these resources, and you don't have Internet availability, simply call our toll-free number.\u00a0 It's 1-800-F-as-in-family, L-as-in-life, and then the word TODAY, and we'll get someone on our team to help you get these resources sent out to you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0I want to say a quick word of thanks today, Dennis, if I can, to those folks who help support the ministry of FamilyLife Today.\u00a0 I know for many of them they share our vision for seeing marriages and families strengthened, being able to provide practical, biblical help for couples and families all across the country and around the world through this daily radio program on this station and on stations in other cities as well, and I want you to know that when you help support the ministry of FamilyLife Today, you are also helping us get the word out about the need of the orphan, and you're helping us mobilize organizations and churches to help respond to that need.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0So we appreciate your financial support.\u00a0 We're listener-supported, and your contributions are vital for the ongoing ministry of FamilyLife Today.\u00a0 This month when you make a donation of any amount, we'd love to send you a prayer guide for parents called \"While They Were Sleeping.\"\u00a0 It gives you 12 different topics you can be praying for for your children or your grandchildren along with suggested prayers each week as you focus on a different topic.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Request a copy of that prayer guide when you make your donation online.\u00a0 And you do that by filling out a form online, and then you come to a keycode box.\u00a0 Type in the word \"pray,\" p-r-a-y, and we'll know to send you a copy of this hardback book that will help guide your praying for your children, or simply call 1-800-FLTODAY, make a donation over the phone and mention that you'd like a copy of the book, \"While They Were Sleeping,\" or the prayer guide for parents, and we'll be happy to send that out to you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Again, it's our way of saying thank you for your financial support of this ministry.\u00a0 We appreciate your partnership with us.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Well, tomorrow our friend, Steven Curtis Chapman, is going to join us, along with his daughter, Emily.\u00a0 You may have heard him tell the story of how he and his wife, Mary Beth, decided to adopt their child, Shaohannah at the urging of their daughter, Emily.\u00a0 Tomorrow we'll hear Emily's side of that story, and I hope you can be with us for that.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0I want to thank our engineer today, Keith Lynch, and our entire broadcast production team.\u00a0 On behalf of our host, Dennis Rainey, I'm Bob Lepine.\u00a0 We'll see you next time for another edition of FamilyLife Today. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0FamilyLife Today is a production of FamilyLife of Little Rock, Arkansas, a ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ.\u00a0 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