{"id":301713,"date":"2008-11-19T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-19T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/%series%\/meeting-the-needs-of-the-orphan\/"},"modified":"2008-11-19T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-19T17:00:00","slug":"meeting-the-needs-of-the-orphan","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/meeting-the-needs-of-the-orphan\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeting the Needs of the Orphan"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the Church going to do about the world\u2019s 143 million orphans?<\/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\/fl2008-11-19.mp3","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"00:","filesize":"18.54M","filesize_raw":"19437920","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":""},"categories":[2818],"tags":[2712,4931,4911],"podcast_series":[7617],"cwp_profile":[8964],"series":[2101],"class_list":["post-301713","podcast","type-podcast","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adoption-and-orphans","tag-adoption","tag-childless","tag-orphan","podcast_series-cry-of-the-orphan","cwp_profile-paul-pennington","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\/301713\/meeting-the-needs-of-the-orphan","player_link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast-player\/301713\/meeting-the-needs-of-the-orphan","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=\"HaOBwKRUm4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/meeting-the-needs-of-the-orphan\/\">Meeting the Needs of the Orphan<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/meeting-the-needs-of-the-orphan\/embed\/#?secret=HaOBwKRUm4\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" title=\"&#8220;Meeting the Needs of the Orphan&#8221; &#8212; FamilyLife\u00ae - A Cru Ministry\" data-secret=\"HaOBwKRUm4\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script>\n\/*! 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Lauderdale and, Bob, you know I went down there, and Barbara and I participated in this summit along with about 650 other people.\u00a0 And one of the people we heard speak during that week was Kay Warren, and in her message she basically challenges the church to get practical and to step up and get involved in this.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd it's why we wrote a book called \"Launching an Orphan Ministry in Your Church,\" that's why we want to equip laymen to do this, just want to be up front with you, as a listener.\u00a0 We think God is tapping a number of you on the shoulder and saying, \"Hey, it's time.\u00a0 You can do this.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThis little book will equip you to go to your pastor and begin to explore how you can establish what I believe is a movement of God's Spirit across the nation.\u00a0 And Kay Warren certainly practically illustrates this in her message.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Yes, she's a big part of this movement and, interestingly enough, this was something that was not on her radar screen until recently and then, all of a sudden, she found herself asking a question, and it's the question where she starts the message that she gave at the Orphan Care Summit that we helped to sponsor through our Hope for Orphans initiative and where you spoke as well.\u00a0 Here is Kay Warren.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Kay:<\/strong>\u00a0 [from audiotape.]\u00a0 What is the church going to do about 143 million orphans?\u00a0 It wasn't a question that I asked very often until about six years ago.\u00a0 And one day I picked up a magazine article, sitting in my living room, comfortable, cushy, good life, good plans.\u00a0 I picked up a magazine that had an article about AIDS in Africa \u2013 didn't care a thing about AIDS in Africa, didn't care a thing about AIDS anywhere, anyplace, anytime, didn't matter. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd when I read this article, and I saw that at that time they were saying 40 million people around the world were infested with HIV, and the pictures that were with this article were like those on the screen, even worse \u2013 graphic \u2013 dying people, dying men and women, dying children, too weak to brush the flies away from their faces, and the pictures were so horrific I couldn't look at them.\u00a0 And so I tried to cover my face with my hands to block out the scenes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut there was a box in the middle of that article, and it said, \"12 million children orphaned in Africa due to AIDS.\"\u00a0 Instead of covering my eyes, this time I threw the magazine down.\u00a0 I threw it down in horror, because as I sat in my comfortable living room, a full refrigerator, closet stuffed full of clothes, a climate-controlled car, I realized I didn't know the name of a single orphan.\u00a0 I didn't know the name of a single person who was HIV-positive, and I was horrified, and I said, \"God, what's wrong with me?\"\u00a0 Not what's wrong with the world, but what's wrong with me that I can live in this world and be blind and ignorant and apathetic?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI'm not asking what the government said the world will do, I'm not asking with the philanthropists of the world will do, I'm not asking what the business community of our world will do, I am asking what will the church do about orphans?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt's going to require people who are willing to deny themselves, who are willing to take up the cross, and who are willing to follow Him.\u00a0 I would say it's people who are willing to be surrendered, dangerously surrendered \u2013 people who will become seriously disturbed, and people who will become gloriously ruined.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe first visit that I made to Africa I met a woman named Jawanna [sp].\u00a0 When I met her, she was dying, homeless, living under a tree.\u00a0 She had been kicked out of two villages, burned out of the second one, her home.\u00a0 And so she and her husband were living under a tree, and she was about a week away from death, just a bag of bones, skeletal, and she tried to crawl out to greet me on her elbows and her knees, and she couldn't.\u00a0 And so her aunt picked her up and set her down in front of me.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd I sat there looking at this dying, homeless woman and thought again, \"What has my faith prepared me for?\u00a0 Not this.\u00a0 I know how to talk to women about where to find the best price of chicken this week.\u00a0 I know how to talk to gals about how to lose that last 10 pounds that they can't lose.\u00a0 I know how to talk to families about their marriages and their children but, God, I don't know what to say to homeless, dying people under trees.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI was speechless.\u00a0 All I could do was stare and gulp and feel sick to my stomach, and the woman who was with me who had been many times showed me how to lean down, how to get down next to this woman on the ground, how to throw my arms around her, how to hold her close, how to reassure her that while this life had obviously been very hard, there was hope.\u00a0 There was hope, there was a life beyond this life, that God loved her, He had not forgotten her, that she mattered to Him.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOn my next trip, this time I was with orphans, and it was with a mom who said, \"You know what?\u00a0 I'm HIV-positive, and my husband was unfaithful to me, and he is HIV-positive, and his mistress is HIV-positive, and they have an HIV-positive baby, and my husband wants to bring her into our home and live with us.\u00a0 So when I met this woman, here she is in a house now \u2013 this other woman was dying under a tree.\u00a0 This woman, at least, has a tiny little hovel, but her husband, her unfaithful husband who has brought HIV to their home and to her wants to live in that home with her, with the mistress, with their baby, and now she is dying \u2013 this woman that I'm talking to.\u00a0 And I said to her, again, because my faith doesn't know what to do with this, and I said, \"I'm going back to my country.\u00a0 What do I tell people how to pray for you?\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI figured she'd say, \"Pray that I have medicine, pray that somebody will come along and kick my rat of a husband out.\"\u00a0 She said, \"Pray for my children.\u00a0 What is going to happen to my children when I die?\"\u00a0 And she became the first of so many mothers that I have heard around the world \u2013 mothers say the same thing, whether it's in Malawi or Mozambique or Canada or the United States or England or South Africa or Brazil or Haiti \u2013 mothers ask the same question \u2013 who will take care of my children?\u00a0 Will they die?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDoes the church have an answer?\u00a0 Does your church have an answer to that question?\u00a0 And I went from Flora's house to what they call in the world of NGOs, a child-headed household.\u00a0 It just means orphan kids living together.\u00a0 And I met John, who was 15, taking care of his 11-year-old brother and his 3-year-old little sister in a little mud hut, and they had \u2013 it was in a very rural area, and they hadn't seen very many white people, and with my fair skin and light hair, I looked dead.\u00a0 And so they very soberly and somberly took me into their little tiny mud hut and showed me the few blankets and a dented cooking pot, and that's it.\u00a0 That's what they owned in this world.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd as I talked to them, and the little 3-year-old sister finally would let me hold her, and as I sat on the porch of their little mud hut, I wanted to just lie down on the ground and scream and sob and wail on their behalf.\u00a0 I held in the emotion until I left, and so I sat on that porch holding the 3-year-old little girl, and in my spirit crying out to God saying, \"God, where is the mommy and the daddy?\u00a0 Where is the daddy who will swing her in the air, who will play with her, who will chase her through the yard, who will stand next to her proudly on the day that she is married?\u00a0 God, where is the mommy who, when she wakes up in the night will come cuddle her, will sing her a lullabye, will hold her and reassure her that the monsters won't get her?\u00a0 Where is the mommy who will teach her how to be a young woman, who will teach her how to prepare for marriage?\u00a0 Who will teach her how to be a mom?\u00a0 God, where are they?\u00a0 These brothers will do the best they can, but they cannot do what a mom and a dad can do.\u00a0 God, what is your answer?\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhat is it that disturbs you?\u00a0 Jesus said if you are really my disciple, you'll be willing to take up the cross.\u00a0 And when you do all of that, you'll be ruined \u2013 gloriously ruined.\u00a0 And life won't seem the same, and normal life just won't satisfy quite as much as it used to.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSee, I believe the pursuit of the American Dream in and of itself, the pursuit of health and wealth and happiness will ruin you.\u00a0 But so will the Halloween Jesus to the end.\u00a0 And so if you're going to be ruined, why not be ruined for something of eternal value?\u00a0 Why not be ruined for the Kingdom of God?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSee, Jesus preaches an upside down Gospel.\u00a0 In Luke 14:12-14, he says when you put on a dinner, don't invite your friends, relatives, and rich neighbors, for they will repay you by inviting you back.\u00a0 Instead, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind.\u00a0 Then at the resurrection of the godly, God will reward you for inviting those who could not repay you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhen I was in Russia last year, I met an orphan girl named Eira [sp].\u00a0 Eira was 15 when I met her.\u00a0 Eira was one, tough girl.\u00a0 She had been raised in an orphanage from birth, abandoned baby, and was told every day of her life that she didn't matter, and that nobody cared whether she lived or died.\u00a0 Can you imagine being told that every day of your life?\u00a0 You don't matter.\u00a0 There is nobody on the face of the earth who cares whether you live or die.\u00a0 What does that do to a child?\u00a0 Well, it turned Eira into a very tough girl early on.\u00a0 She fought with everybody, she was violent.\u00a0 She fought the guys, she fought the girls, it didn't matter.\u00a0 She was a prostitute, she was a drug addict, she was a street kid by the time she was 15.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd yet when I met Eira, she was in a home of an incredible young Christian couple, and I said to Eira, \"How did you find Jesus?\u00a0 Tell me your story.\"\u00a0 She said, \"When I was on the street, Peter and Mascha [sp] would come to us on the street, and to all of us who were hanging out, and they would tell us that Jesus loved us, and we were, like, 'Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure, right, whatever.'\"\u00a0 She said, \"But then they began to invite us to their home, and they would invite us into their home every day, and Mascha would fix spaghetti over and over and over for us, and we got to hang out in their living room, and we talked, and it was safe, and it was warm, and they told us that they loved us, and they told us that God loved us.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tShe said, \"I began to believe that if Peter and Mascha could love me that maybe Jesus could love me, too.\"\u00a0 How did Eira know that God had not forgotten her?\u00a0 How did Eira know that truly she did matter and that somebody really did care whether she lived or died.\u00a0 It was because Peter and Mascha put a seat at their table for her, just as Jesus said \u2013 could Eira repay Peter and Mascha for all the spaghetti dinners they fixed?\u00a0 Absolutely not.\u00a0 Could she ever repay them?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 Did that stop Peter and Mascha from making a seat at their table for Eira and all the other street kids in that area?\u00a0 No.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIf you ever need to know why you are here, as the wife of the man who wrote \"The Purpose-Driven Life,\" you'd think I'd always know my purpose, but I just have to tell you, sometimes I don't.\u00a0 And on those days when I'm not really sure, I go back to Colossians, Colossians 1:15.\u00a0 It says that Jesus was the visible image of the invisible God.\u00a0 God kept telling us what He was like.\u00a0 All through the Old Testament, He said, \"I care about the children.\"\u00a0 And we could say, \"Sure you do, sure you do,\" but then Jesus was here, and then Jesus said, \"If you so much as harm one of these little ones, just tie a millstone around your neck and be thrown into the sea if you dare hurt one of these little ones.\"\u00a0 And if He's holding a child, and He's speaking with that strong voice, all those around Him, suddenly, you go, \"Aha!\u00a0 He means it.\u00a0 He means it.\u00a0 This is what it means for God to care.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhen God said, \"I care about the poor, when I care about those who are marginalized, those who are on the edges,\" and then Jesus was with a woman caught in adultery and instead of saying, \"Yes, let me be the first one to pick up the stone and whack her with it,\" he said, instead, \"Woman, your sins are forgiven.\u00a0 Go and sin no more.\"\u00a0 And we begin to go, \"Oh, God has mercy, God is merciful, God really is just, He cares, He has forgiveness.\"\u00a0 Jesus made the invisible God visible to us.\u00a0 Now, that is our task every day, that is your job today.\u00a0 When you leave here, is to make the invisible God visible.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHow would Flora ever know that there would be people that would care about her children unless there was somebody there saying, \"Flora, I care, and I'm going to make sure that your children have a place to go when you die.\"\u00a0 How would John know that God had not forgotten him and his brother and his sister in their grief, in their aloneness, unless there is a church member, somebody who comes in and says, \"You're a part of us now.\u00a0 You're not alone.\u00a0 You're not on your own, you're a part of us.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHow would that little boy have \u2013 how will he ever know that God has not abandoned him unless there is somebody who comes in, who scoops him up out of that crib and says, \"You're mine, you're going to live in my home, and I will work with you as your body is broken, but your mine.\"\u00a0 How did Eira come to know that she mattered, that God was aware of her pain and her suffering?\u00a0 Somebody made Him known to her.\u00a0 Somebody made God visible.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThis is what the church must do.\u00a0 I don't feel a particular responsibility for what the government does or what philanthropy does or what private sector does or even NGO does.\u00a0 What I care about is what will the church \u2013 what will your congregation do?\u00a0 What will you do?\u00a0 What will we do to make Him visible?\u00a0 How will they know?\u00a0 How will they know unless surrendered, disturbed and gloriously ruined disciples of Jesus Christ say, \"I care, I will make Him visible, I will make Him known.\"\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<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Well, I hope we have a whole lot of surrendered, disturbed, and gloriously ruined listeners today, don't you?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> I do, and, Bob, I'm about to give the shortest conclusion I've ever given in over 16 years of broadcasting.\u00a0 I want you to do what God has called you to do, and if He is calling you to start an orphan care ministry in your church, do it.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Yes, and we'd love to help.\u00a0 In fact, we have resources that we've designed to do just that.\u00a0 There is a book that we've created called \"Launching an Orphan Ministry in Your Church.\"\u00a0 It comes with a DVD where you and Barbara talk about how and why churches can get involved in orphan care ministry.\u00a0 That's available from us here at FamilyLife.\u00a0 There is a brochure we've put together \u2013 \"Ten Ways Every Christian Can Care for the Orphan and Waiting Child.\"\u00a0 Those are available from us here at FamilyLife as well.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe now have a new Homebuilders study for couples who are thinking about adoption or couples who just want to better understand the needs and what's involved in an adoption process.\u00a0 That's available from us.\u00a0 And now we've created a complete one-day seminar for churches on adoption.\u00a0 It's a seven-session seminar that's available on four DVDs that you can use in your church or in your community to help people who have thought about adopting, think through and better understand all of the issues and know how to go from where they are today to where God wants them to be wherever that is, whether it's adoption or caring for orphans in some other way \u2013 foster care.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAll of the information about these resources is available on our website, FamilyLife.com, and if you go to our home page, on the right side of the screen, you'll see a button that says \"Today's Broadcast.\"\u00a0 Click where it says \"Learn More,\" and that will take you to the area of the site where there is information about these resources.\u00a0 There is also information about the partnership we're involved in with other ministries to help encourage orphan care around the world.\u00a0 There is a link to a website that talks about what the partner ministries are doing.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAgain, all of this is on our website, FamilyLife.com.\u00a0 All you have to do is click on the right side of the screen where it says \"Today's Broadcast,\" and that will take you through to the area of the site where you can get more information.\u00a0 Or call 1-800-FLTODAY, 1-800-358-6329.\u00a0 Someone on our team can make arrangements to have the resources you are looking for sent out to you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tLet me just say a word here, too \u2013 a word of thanks to those of you who help support the ministry of FamilyLife Today and make broadcasts like this possible; make our efforts to try to equip churches to have a ministry for orphans.\u00a0 You make all of that possible when you help support the ministry of FamilyLife Today, and we appreciate your financial support.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIn fact, this week, if you are able to help with a donation of any amount for the ministry of FamilyLife Today, we'd love to send you a thank you gift.\u00a0 It's Barbara Rainey's brand-new book about Christmas.\u00a0 It's called \"When Christmas Came,\" and it includes Barbara's meditations and thoughts on John 3:16 and the gift that God gave to the world at Christmastime \u2013 His only begotten Son.\u00a0 It's a beautiful book, and it's our thank you gift to you when you help support the ministry of FamilyLife Today this week with a donation of any amount.\u00a0 You can make your donation online at FamilyLife.com or call 1-800-FLTODAY and make a donation over the phone.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIf you are donating online, you need to type the word \"Christmas\" into the keycode box on the donation form so that we can send Barbara's book to you.\u00a0 If you make your donation over the phone just mention you'd like Barbara's new Christmas book.\u00a0 Again, it's called \"When Christmas Came,\" and it's available exclusively from us here at FamilyLife.\u00a0 It's not in stores; it's only available through the ministry.\u00a0 So get in touch with us if you're interested in getting a copy and thank you for your financial support of FamilyLife Today.\u00a0 We appreciate you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWell, tomorrow we are going to hear from a pastor of one of the largest churches in Florida, a church that is having a profound impact on the foster care system in their community.\u00a0 We'll hear Bob Coy tell that story tomorrow, and I hope you can be with us for that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI 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 tomorrow for another edition of FamilyLife Today. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tFamilyLife Today is a production of FamilyLife of Little Rock, Arkansas \u2013 help for today; hope for tomorrow.\u00a0\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t________________________________________________________________\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe are so happy to provide these transcripts for you. 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