I NEED MORE DADDYS
Can you imagine as long back as you can remember, feeling that there is no one to go to, that gives a care about you. Always knowing that, if I fall down, there is no one, but me to pick myself up. If I am hungry there is no one to tell but strangers, that are too busy with their own problems. No one to take the broken toy to, to say, fix it daddy. No one to lift you way up high, and put on his shoulders, so you could see above all the giant people. Just think of being four years old, crossing the street, with no one to say give me your hand.
Can you imagine growing up with the name kid. Only hearing gruff voices saying, watch out kid!, get away kid! Look out kid! You in my way kid! You stupid kid! Get that kid out of here! Can you imagine always fearing the nice people, because some only seemed nice so they could use your body to do horrible things, too satisfy their filthy lust.
I am trying to share the plight of millions of orphans, to raise up daddy's
with My heart. I have no physical body but yours and yet, I am "a father of the
fatherless and a judge and protector of the widows..." Psalm 68:5 (AMP) Those
who will be My daddy representatives on earth have a special grace in My eyes
and will see supernatural provision as they care for My kids. I have given a
kingdom warning in both covenants, concerning the treatment of orphans! Under
the old covenant I said, "You shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child.
[23] If you afflict them in any way and they cry at all to Me, I will surely
hear their cry; [24] And My wrath shall burn; I will kill you with the sword,
and your wives shall be widows and your children fatherless." Exodus 22:22-24
(AMP)
Under the new covenant I said, "whoever causes one of these little ones who
believe in and acknowledge and cleave to Me to stumble and sin that is, who
entices him or hinders him in right conduct or thought, it would be better (more
expedient and profitable or advantageous) for him to have a great millstone
fastened around his neck and to be sunk in the depth of the sea." Matthew 18:6
(AMP)
Either way you mess with My little ones, your dead! Just remember, you can
do all kinds of spiritual things and that's good, but, true spirituality and
"pure religion and undefiled before Me and the Father of these neglected little
ones is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to
keep himself unspotted from the world." James 1:27 (KJV) If you want My special
attention start there!
A friend of ours was walking down a deserted Mexican beach at sunset. As he walked along, he began to see another man in the distance. As he grew nearer, he noticed that the local native kept leaning down, picking something up and throwing it out into the water. Time and again he kept hurling things out into the ocean.
ReplyDeleteAs our friend approached even closer, he noticed that the man was picking up starfish that had been washed up on the beach and, one at a time, he was throwing them back into the water.
Our friend was puzzled. He approached the man and said, "Good evening, friend. I was wondering what you are doing."
"I'm throwing these starfish back into the ocean. You see, it's low tide right now and all these starfish have been washed up onto the shore. If I don't throw them back into the sea, they'll die up here from lack of oxygen."
"I understand," my friend replied, "but there must be thousands of starfish on this beach. You can't possibly get to all of them. There are simply too many. And don't you realize this is probably happening on hundreds of beaches all up and down this coast. Can't you see that you can't possibly make a difference?"
The local native smiled, bent down and picked up yet another starfish, and as he threw it back into the sea, he replied,
"Made a difference to that one!"
Jack Canfield and Mark V. Hansen
Christ has no hands but our hands, to do His work today,
ReplyDeleteHe has no feet but our feet to lead men in His way.
He has no tongue but our tongue to tell men how He died,
He has no help but our help to bring them to His side.
We are the only Bible, the careless world will read,
We are the sinners' gospel, we are the scoffers' creed.
We are the Lord's last message, given in deed and word,
What if the type is crooked, what if the print is blurred?
What if our hands are busy, with other work than His,
What if our feet are walking, where sin's allurement is?
What if our tongues are speaking, of things His lips would spurn,
How can we hope to help Him, and hasten His return?
by Annie Johnson Flint
WE DO NOT HAVE TO GO OUTSIDE OF THE UNTIED STATES TO FIND CHILDREN WHO NEED ADOPTED.
ReplyDeleteAmeriCorps Vista projects called ONE CHURCH ONE CHILD use volenteers to CONNECT Churches to Foster children in most states here is an article from Idaho showing the need for families to foster adopt the orphaned.
One Church, One Child:
Idaho communities learn how to help children in foster care
November 08, 2012 17:15
There are 1,300 children in foster care in Idaho. Unfortunately, one of seven of them will turn 18 before they find forever families and will age out of the foster care system. Only half of the children who age out will graduate from high school; less than 2 percent will actually graduate from college. The future of children aging out of foster care is bleak.
But now, a National Service Grant may help change that. The grant has allowed the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare (DHW) to begin working with seven volunteers in the Americorps Volunteers in Service to America as part of the state’s One Church, One Child program, which works to ensure healthy futures for Idaho children in foster care.
The Division of Family and Community Services (FACS) in DHW started rolling out the program earlier this year to establish relationships with faith-based organizations. The goals are to:
1) Recruit foster and adoptive parents;
2) Provide services and natural supports for those who choose to foster and/or adopt;
3) Provide support to children in foster care and their birth parents who are working to regain custody of those children.
One Church, One Child is now available statewide. Forty-three churches have already pledged to support the program, which means families are volunteering to foster children while other church families help provide support to their congregation’s foster families.
“We’re excited about the opportunity to work with faith-based communities to make sure children in foster care in this state have access to the care and services they need,” said Rob Luce, FACS division administrator. “Our goal eventually is that no child will age out of care before they can become part of a nurturing home.”
The seven volunteers have been assigned to FACS professional teams in each of DHW’s seven regions around the state. The volunteers are liaisons between the state’s child welfare system and the faith communities. They work to improve the lives and outcomes for children in Idaho’s foster care system. The volunteers are charged with identifying churches and other faith-based organizations that could help children, and then engaging and building relationships with them. The VISTA volunteers each receive a stipend of $10,000 per year to work 36-40 hours a week in the program. The stipends are paid in state and federal funds.
“Our program is three-fold: It’s not just about fostering or adopting, it’s about offering services to help these children deal with their circumstances so they can become healthy adults,” said Courtney Keith, DHW program specialist in charge of One Church, One Child. “I think we’ll see fewer children coming back into care if we build a good support network for their birth-families as well as their foster families.”
The grant is from the Corporation for National and Community Service, a federal agency that engages Americans in service through Senior Corps, AmeriCorps, and the Social Innovation Fund. It also leads President Barak Obama’s national call to service initiative, United We Serve.
For more information about how to help, please contact the 2-1-1 Idaho CareLine at 211 or 1-800-926-2588.
Contact: Niki Forbing-Orr
Public Information Officer
(208) 334-0693
http://www.healthandwelfare.idaho.gov/AboutUs/Newsroom/tabid/130/ctl/ArticleView/mid/3061/articleId/1684/One-Church-One-Child-Idaho-communities-learn-how-to-help-children-in-foster-care.aspx
Mickey Radon
AmeriCorps VOLUNTEER
http://www.americorps.gov/
email: radonm@dhw.idaho.gov
phone: (208) 799-4385
fax: (208) 799-3424
address: 1118 F Street, PO Drawer B, Lewiston, ID 83501
646 MONTANA FOSTER KIDS NEED PERMANENT HOMES
ReplyDeleteThe children who are placed in foster care by the division range in age from infants to teenagers. Frequently sibling groups need placement together. The children come from many different backgrounds and reflect the cultural diversity of the state. There are 2,222 children in foster care in Montana; 646 of these children are waiting for adoptive families.
http://www.adoptuskids.org/for-families/state-adoption-and-foster-care-information/montana
MEET THE CHILDREN FILM:
http://www.adoptuskids.org/meet-the-children
http://www.adoptuskids.org/meet-the-children/state-photolists
ReplyDeleteCHILDREN UP FOR ADOPTION IN VARIOUS STATE BY SELECTION AND PROFILE OF CHILD SELECTION.
STATES PAY ADOPTION THE ADOPTION AND MONTHLY LIVING EXPENSES, MEDICAL (COUNSELING), OR SPECIAL NEEDS COSTS.
WAITING CHILDREN IN IDAHO PHOTOS, AGES, AND STORY
https://www.nwae.org/PhotoIndex-IARE-dbC.php?tn=3
WEDNESDAY'S CHILD ADOPTION INFO http://wednesdayschild.adopt.org/
http://www.nwae.org/Profile-IARE-dbC.php?tn=3&case=c8581-82
Video courtesy of Wednesday's Child Program