{"id":301241,"date":"2006-11-24T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-24T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/%series%\/how-you-can-care-for-the-orphan-child\/"},"modified":"2024-10-07T22:42:31","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T02:42:31","slug":"how-you-can-care-for-the-orphan-child","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/how-you-can-care-for-the-orphan-child\/","title":{"rendered":"How You Can Care for the Orphan Child"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you were charged with caring for orphans, how would you do it?<\/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\/fl2006-11-24.mp3","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"00:","filesize":"11.35M","filesize_raw":"11903104","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":""},"categories":[2818],"tags":[2712,4475],"podcast_series":[7487],"cwp_profile":[8828],"series":[2101],"class_list":["post-301241","podcast","type-podcast","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adoption-and-orphans","tag-adoption","tag-orphans","podcast_series-caring-for-the-orphan-child","cwp_profile-various-guests","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\/301241\/how-you-can-care-for-the-orphan-child","player_link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast-player\/301241\/how-you-can-care-for-the-orphan-child","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=\"0raX4L5545\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/how-you-can-care-for-the-orphan-child\/\">How You Can Care for the Orphan Child<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/how-you-can-care-for-the-orphan-child\/embed\/#?secret=0raX4L5545\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" title=\"&#8220;How You Can Care for the Orphan Child&#8221; &#8212; FamilyLife\u00ae - A Cru Ministry\" data-secret=\"0raX4L5545\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script>\n\/*! 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it?","meta_box":{"show_notes":"","transcript_url":"https:\/\/transcript.familylifetoday.com\/fl2006-11-24.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\t[Song \"Tomorrow\"]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Have you ever wondered what's going on in the heart and the mind of an orphan?\u00a0 About the longing for a forever family?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[musical transition] \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0This is FamilyLife Today for Friday, November 24th.\u00a0 Our host is the president of FamilyLife, Dennis Rainey, and I'm Bob Lepine.\u00a0 We'll talk about caring for the orphans on today's program.\u00a0 Stay with us.\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 Friday edition.\u00a0 When you saw the movie \"Annie,\" did you stop and think about orphans?\u00a0 I mean, I don't remember that that was on my \u2013 Little Orphan Annie, of course, is who she was, but \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0\u2026 not much for me.\u00a0 I mean, I think there was the heartfelt feeling for an orphan; a little girl who was without a family, but I wouldn't say that anything clicked within me at that point.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0You stop and think about it now, we don't have any orphanages officially in the United States, but there are foster care homes, there are families taking care of children who don't have families.\u00a0 There's adoption that's happening, and most of our listeners aren't aware \u2013 they've heard us talking about the needs of the orphan over the last several weeks here on FamilyLife Today, but they're not aware that we've had a lot going on behind the scenes in preparation for what we've been talking about on the air.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0In fact, last spring, we had a rather historic gathering here at the headquarters of FamilyLife.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0That's right.\u00a0 It was actually the second gathering of a group of ministries, more than 60 different orphan care and adoption ministries from all over the United States joined together in an Orphan Care Summit.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Bob, this was historic in that never before had this group of people, as Christian leaders of agencies and orphan care ministries, churches, leaders of organizations like Focus on the Family, Shaohannah's Hope, foundations representing money to be given for adoption \u2013 this group had never come together \u2013 ever \u2013 as a meeting of Christians to express a concern about what are we going to do with the worldwide crisis of orphans and from those two meetings, I'm going to tell you, it has been incredible to watch God work.\u00a0 He has put together a coalition of ministries that have said, you know what?\u00a0 We're going to cooperate.\u00a0 We're going to check our egos and our logos at the door.\u00a0 We're going to be selfless, and we're going to be concerned about the needs and the plight of the orphan worldwide.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tCharles:\u00a0My name is Charles Detter [sp], I'm the director of communications with Global Aid Network.\u00a0 For the last 15 years, Global Aid Network has been taking large groups of American Christians overseas to reach out with the Gospel and ministry to children, and our greatest focus has been children in orphanages.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0We often say that the life changed on a trip is probably going to be your life, the life of the participant, the person coming with us.\u00a0 You come to realize that God is a bigger God when you go to a foreign land, and that He's not just the God of the United States of America.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Dr. Carol Cheney is herself an adoptive mother.\u00a0 She has also spent time helping out at orphanages in other countries.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tCarol:\u00a0When I experienced what I did some eight years ago, the blinders just wouldn't stay on my eyes and heart, and I knew more of God's love after the encounters I will now tell you about.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Jorge was 11 years old, being one of the older children at the orphanage in La Ciudad Victoria, Mexico.\u00a0 He was outgrowing the cute stage of childhood and was already aware of a harshness in life that we Americans would never want our grown children much less our 11-year-olds exposed to.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0During my month of visiting and helping at the orphanage, Jorge had overcome some of his shyness and would want to talk to me and tell me about himself.\u00a0 He would draw pictures and give them to me and often would just want to walk about and hold my hand when the younger ones were not in my lap.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0One day, shortly before my departure, he came to me with tears in his eyes and asked me to take a gift home with me so I would remember him.\u00a0 My gift was the only physical possession he had in this world.\u00a0 He kept it in a shoebox beneath his bed.\u00a0 His treasure \u2013 a wooden cup-and-ball toy.\u00a0 Jorge proudly handed the precious toy to me in his hand that was missing two fingers due to a cruel knife cut early in life.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0As I fought back tears and gave him a hug, the disparity of our worlds hung like a heavy invisible weight upon my heart.\u00a0 My mind could not conceive of a child being willing to give up his only personal possession to someone like me who was only passing through his life for a few weeks.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0I wanted to say, \"No.\"\u00a0 But his eyes were gazing directly into mine looking for acceptance and love.\u00a0 His eyes bravely pleaded to belong in some way to this stranger he tried to speak his language, listen to his stories, kept his pictures, and held his crippled hand.\u00a0 After meeting that gaze, I accepted his gift with a simple, \"Thank you, Jorge, I shall always remember you and your kindness.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And then there was David, a small, wiry, mischievous 10-year-old.\u00a0 He had the attention span and activity level of a bumblebee.\u00a0 He was definitely buzzy and often in trouble, but he had the most endearing nature and, for a few minutes, after a spanking, really did try to do better.\u00a0 David, too, was frequently at my side holding my hand and wanting me to read to him.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0During one of these reading sessions, he asked me if I could please take him home with me so that he could have a family, and we could read every day.\u00a0 On the last day at the orphanage, he hung onto me, off and on, the whole day, crying and asking me to please take him and to be his mother.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0These eight years have passed since I saw Jorge and David.\u00a0 They are now grown and have left the orphanage.\u00a0 I do not know where they are or what they are doing, but I am grateful to them for the lessons they taught me.\u00a0 They showed me the wonder of sharing love of giving.\u00a0 They returned to me a thousandfold my gift of time and effort.\u00a0 Their gifts to me were rich with bright smiles and hugs, tears on dust-smeared faces saying, \"Thank you, and goodbye.\"\u00a0 I hope those children's memories of me someday will bring them a bit closer to God as my memories of them have done for me.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tScott:\u00a0My name is Scott Hasenbalg, and I'm the executive director of Shaohannah's Hope.\u00a0 When we're on a 71-city tour, and we do all these tours, and Steven is sharing his heart for adoption, and in the meet-and-greets afterwards, I see all these kids lined up and all these families that are affected by adoption, you step back, and you think, \"Man, heaven is going to be pretty cool when we're all lined up, because God's adopted us.\"\u00a0 I know God in heaven is looking down at the work that we're all doing saying, \"Well, that's good, but I am the Father to the fatherless, and there's millions of these out there that I know the hairs on the heads of each one of them.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And I think what's happening in adoption today, God is giving us an opportunity to experience Him at levels that we would never have imagined experiencing unless we stepped in faith.\u00a0 It's an invitation.\u00a0 It's an invitation to go deeper with Him.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[musical transition] \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMichael:\u00a0If a church comes to me and says \"Why should we start an adoption or orphan ministry, I would respond to them, in all sincerity, \"Why not?\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Michael Monroe and his wife, Amy, head up Tapestry.\u00a0 That is the ministry to adoptive and foster families at Irving Bible Church in Irving, Texas.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMichael:\u00a0Somebody the other day asked me, \"Why do you give so much time to this ministry?\"\u00a0 I said, \"Because I can't find anything better to do.\"\u00a0 I mean, I truly don't have anything better to do than to give my heart and my life in gratitude to the blessings I receive.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0We don't promote adoption.\u00a0 We promote awareness of God's heart for these kids.\u00a0 We promote awareness of the blessing that adoption can be.\u00a0 We promote awareness the blessing of fostering can be, and we hope that individuals and ultimately church bodies begin to catch that vision.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0For me, I'll just give you a personal example \u2013 for me, it was working nursery about six months ago, and I'm sitting there, and I've got six children captive in their little highchairs eating animal crackers, and I realized I'm looking at these six children, only two of these children were born in the United States.\u00a0 Four of the children were not \u2013 two from Guatemala, one was born in China, one in Russia, and I'm thinking \"God's heart for adoption for orphans \u2013 if we capture that, and if some of us respond to that call for adoption, it's changing the face of the church,\" and I think changing it for the better because it becomes \u2013 the church then becomes, as these kids grow and these families expand and they tell their stories, and they live their stories, and they represent their stories just with a mere \u2013 the visibility of their \u2013 how it looks visually, they have a story to tell, and it's about God's grace and God's love and God's blessing, and it's there for everyone to see.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And so adoption and orphan care ministries can't help but change us and can't help but change our church visually where we're going to see, over time.\u00a0 I think it's really cool\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAmy:\u00a0When you go into orphanages, and you see the faces of the kids, and you see the hunger in their eyes, and you see the sadness of their situation, one of the first things you notice, especially about orphan children, are the clothes that they have on, especially their shoes, if they even have shoes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0This is Amy Norton.\u00a0 She directs Shoes for Orphan Souls with Buckner Orphan Care.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAmy:\u00a0So many of the orphanages, no matter where we go in the world, one of the biggest needs that we are told about, before we even started a shoe drive, was the need for new shoes for the children.\u00a0 Shoes, in general, but new shoes especially because orphan children never get anything new.\u00a0 They never get anything that's theirs to keep.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0To do a shoe drive \u2013 it's a great thing to do to really excite and invigorate a church and for them to feel like they've really done something, I think, to impact.\u00a0 I've seen little kids, even two and three-year-olds that can understand the fact that, you know, \"When my shoes get too little, Mommy and Daddy go buy me a pair of shoes.\"\u00a0 But these children don't have mommies and daddies to go buy them a pair of shoes, and they can go out and, even if they're shopping for school, they can go buy a pair of shoes that match; can buy two pairs and every day they put those shoes on, they can be praying for that child that's got the same pair of shoes.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0It's a powerful thing.\u00a0 Each pair of shoes represents a child, and that's what you want the church and people to see, and especially the children, young people.\u00a0 You know, shoes can be a wonderful way for them to actually realize there's a child, there's an orphan, and there's something that we're supposed to do to help them.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tKent:\u00a0I'm Kent Hatfield, I'm a deacon at Southeast Christian Church in Louisville, Kentucky.\u00a0 The reason a church should start an orphan's ministry is because it is a call from Scripture.\u00a0 One of these days, I'm going to have an accurate count on how many times and how many places in the Bible it says \"Take care of orphans.\u00a0 Take care of the fatherless.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0I know of at least 17 or 18 that I have marked in my Bible, and it's all throughout Scripture \u2013 James 1:27, of course, is a primary one.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMarydell:\u00a0And what I love about the verse is it says, \"pure religion.\"\u00a0 And it's interesting how, you know, churches want to get right doctrine and correct teaching and great theology, but what about pure religion?\u00a0 What does that really look like?\u00a0 My name is Marydell Sandburg.\u00a0 I'm with Bethlehem Baptist Church, and so if that's God's definition, we've got a lot of work to do.\u00a0 And I think we don't want to dream up better little boxes of what we can accomplish in the flesh.\u00a0 I think this is going to take a task that's going to be eyes have not seen and ears have not heard what God has planned.\u00a0 And are we willing to ask for things that are bigger than we can accomplish?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[musical transition] \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Jay and Suzanne Foskey [sp] are from First Baptist Church in Brenham, Texas.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tJay:\u00a0Five years ago we started Forever Families, the group dedicated toward helping other families find resources for adoption, and in the process of also starting Here I Am Orphan Ministries where we actually care for orphans and go to orphanages to try and help them and locate potential families for these children.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0We have 14 children, of which 12 are adopted from all different nationalities \u2013 three from India, one from China, one from Colombia, three from Russia, and four from Kazakhstan.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMan:\u00a0And what are their ages, do you know?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tJay:\u00a0That I won't try.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSuzanne:\u00a0Fifteen, 15, 14, 13, 13, 12, 12, 10, 10, 9, 8, 5, 5, and 2.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[musical transition] \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tJay:\u00a0The care that orphans need is just amazing.\u00a0 There are faces that just do not go away that you see on those trips, and it's what keeps you going back.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSuzanne:\u00a0While we were in Colombia adopting our son, we found out about an orphanage that was there for older children, and we went to go visit this orphanage, they had recently purchased bed frames for 70 girls, but they didn't have the money for the mattresses, and so our ministry was able to raise the money for 70 mattresses for the girls, and they also had a need for undergarments \u2013 socks, underwear, that type thing \u2013 and actually some of the girls were having to go to school without undergarments because they only had one, and when it was washday, it wasn't dry, and so the church pulled together, and the ministry, and took about 500 pairs of underwear and lots of socks and bought shoes and pajamas and everything for those girls in Bogot\u00e1, Colombia.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0When we leave they beg us to come back, and \"When are you going to come back?\" and ask you if you'll assign them a family, and it's really hard to go on this trip.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0That's really hard and usually when they say that, it usually brings me to tears because I realize that, for some of them, they won't ever have a family, and therefore I feel that's why it's even more important that we plan mission trips and stuff, because even if they don't have an earthly father, we feel like they need to know that they do have a Heavenly Father.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tJay:\u00a0You can't change the life of every one of these children, but you can love them and help them and that's the starting point.\u00a0 If they feel love, it gives them hope, something to hold onto, even if it's just for a week while we're visiting the orphanage.\u00a0 Just seeing one of their friends find a home gives them hope that maybe they're the next one.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSuzanne:\u00a0I think it's changed by perception of God because I recognize Him more as a Father where before I think I viewed Him as Creator and Master of the Universe, all those type things, where I think it's put me in touch with the Father that He is to us.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[musical transition] \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0That's Michael W. Smith, and I think what he is singing about there reflects what was on the heart of those folks who gathered for the Orphan Summit here at FamilyLife back a few months ago.\u00a0 We can't wait any longer, because there are millions of children who are waiting, and they can't wait.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0They can't, and those voices we just heard, Bob, of men and women sharing what they have done on behalf of the orphan.\u00a0 Well, they're just \u2013 they're people like you and me who decided to take a step of faith on behalf of the orphan \u2013 some adopted and some of have given money, and some have established ministries, and some of helped build orphanages, and they've just made a difference because they've sought to be responsible for what God wanted them to do as individuals.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And I think that's really the message I want our listeners to take from today's broadcast, is you can make a difference.\u00a0 It may only be in the life of one child, but God may call you to adopt a child.\u00a0 He may call you to adopt and orphanage or call your church to establish an orphan care adoption ministry that you lead.\u00a0 Well, you know what?\u00a0 FamilyLife wants to be a part of encouraging that movement of God, and it's already occurring.\u00a0 I've been a part of very few things in my life that I could see were marked by God's spirit like this.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0It is clear that God has \u2013 is really up to something when it comes to the orphan.\u00a0 The question is, what will you do?\u00a0 Will you pray?\u00a0 Will you give?\u00a0 Will you establish an orphan care ministry at your church or perhaps will you consider adopting?\u00a0 I mean, the question is what does God want you to do?\u00a0 And you can't do it all, but you can do something.\u00a0 Don't wait any longer to do what you need to do.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0And someone may say, you know, we really can't do much in our current situation, and the reality is there's a lot that all of us can do.\u00a0 In fact, our team has put together something called \"Ten Ways Every Christian Can Care for the Orphan and Waiting Child.\"\u00a0 And when you unfold this you can post it in your church, you can put it up in your home.\u00a0 It lists different ways that all of us can be involved \u2013 everything from praying for orphans to providing a safe place, giving, cheering them on, mobilizing your church for them, supporting those who support them \u2013 all kinds of ways that any of us can help care for the needs of orphans and waiting children all around the world.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0This document is available on our website at FamilyLife.com.\u00a0 You can download it when you go to our website.\u00a0 Click the red button in the middle of the screen that says \"Go,\" and that will take you right to a page where there is more information about this document and how you can download it on your computer.\u00a0 There are other resources available on our website as well including a book that we've just published that helps a church walk through the process of beginning an orphan ministry in your church.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Again, our website if FamilyLife.com.\u00a0 If you click the red button that says \"Go,\" in the middle of the screen, it will take you right to a portion of the site where there is information not only about helping orphans but also about the issue of adoption and whether that's right for your family.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Again, our website is FamilyLife.com.\u00a0 You can also call us at 1-800-FLTODAY for more information about these resources, and we hope you will do what you've heard many of our guests talk about today, and that is do something to care for the needs of orphans and waiting children all around the world.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0You know, I mentioned that one of the things we can do for orphans is to pray for them.\u00a0 Certainly, as moms and dads, we want to be praying for the children God has given us.\u00a0 FamilyLife has produced a prayer guide called \"While They Were Sleeping\" \u2013 12 character traits for moms and dads to pray for your children or for your grandchildren.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0This hardback book is a book that we're making available this month to anyone who can help the ministry of FamilyLife with a donation of any amount during the month of November.\u00a0 We're listener-supported, and so your donations are critical for the ongoing work of this ministry.\u00a0 You help keep FamilyLife Today on the air on this station and on other stations all across the country.\u00a0 And, again, this month when you make a donation of any amount, we'd love to send you this book as a thank you gift.\u00a0 The prayer guide called \"While They Were Sleeping.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0You can ask for a copy as you make a donation.\u00a0 If you're filling out a donation form online, when you come to the keycode box on your form, type in the word \"pray,\" p-r-a-y, and we will know to send the copy of this book to you.\u00a0 Or if you're making a donation by phone at 1-800-FLTODAY, just mention when you make your donation that you'd like a copy of the prayer guide you heard us talking about on the radio.\u00a0 We'll be happy to send it to you.\u00a0 Again, it's our way of saying thanks for your partnership with us in the ministry of FamilyLife Today.\u00a0 We appreciate your financial support, and we appreciate your prayers on our behalf as well.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Well, I hope you have a great weekend.\u00a0 I hope you and your family are able to worship together this weekend, and I hope you can be back with us on Monday, when we are going to hear about how you can excite the imagination of a child, stir up his sense of mystery, and share not only the Christmas story with him but also share with him the good news of the Gospel.\u00a0 That comes up on Monday; I hope you can be with us for that.\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 back 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. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe are so happy to provide these transcripts to you.\u00a0 However, there is a cost to transcribe, create, and produce them for our website.\u00a0 If you\u2019ve benefited from the broadcast transcripts, would\u00a0\u00a0 you consider <a href=\"http:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/site\/c.dnJHKLNnFoG\/b.3782043\/k.384D\/Support_Us.htm\">donating today<\/a> to help defray the costs?\u00a0 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