In light of the other issues orphans face, it should not be surprising that many resort to suicide. With no help in sight and no solutions in mind, some can simply find no reason to keep going. One study found that the suicide rate of adoptees is four times greater than the suicide rate of non-adoptees. A Russian study reported that of the …
Ten Ways to Pray for Orphans – #5 and #4
Human traffickers see orphans as the ideal target. If no one misses them, no one will come looking for them. Get hard facts here in the 2018 Trafficking in Persons Report. For the same reason, these children are sold into slave labor. you can learn more about that here and here. If we really want to stop human trafficking, one powerful …
Ten Ways to Pray for Orphans – #6
Orphans lose all support—emotional, financial, and more. They often go to work to pay for basic needs, not only for themselves but sometimes for younger siblings, which means they must drop out of school.Nearly eight out of ten orphans in Burkina Faso have dropped out of school. In Zambia, the number of children who do not attend school rising at …
Ten Ways to Pray for Orphans – #7
November is National Adoption Month. I obviously believe in adoption. But each year only 250,000 of the world’s orphans are adopted. That’s less than 1%. You may not be called to adoption, but you are called to pray. This month, I’ll share ten ways you can pray for the world’s orphans. There are 69 million children worldwide who suffer from malnutrition (World Bank). In 2017, 75 percent …
Ten Ways to Pray for Orphans – #8
November is National Adoption Month. I obviously believe in adoption. But each year only 250,000 of the world’s orphans are adopted. That’s less than 1%. You may not be called to adoption, but you are called to pray. This month, I’ll share ten ways you can pray for the world’s orphans. A 2002 Russian case study followed approximately 15,000 Russian orphans who left institutional orphanages …
Ten Ways to Pray for Orphans – #9
November is National Adoption Month. I obviously believe in adoption. But each year only 250,000 of the world’s orphans are adopted. That’s less than 1%. You may not be called to adoption, but you are called to pray. This month, I’ll share ten ways you can pray for the world’s orphans. The journal Addiction published a systematic review of 50 studies on street kids conducted in …
Ten Ways to Pray for Orphans – #10
November is National Adoption Month. I obviously believe in adoption. But each year only 250,000 of the world’s orphans are adopted. That’s less than 1%. It is estimated there are between 143 and 210 million orphans worldwide. That’s half the size of the US. If all orphans formed their own country, it would be among the 10 largest nations in …
8 Ways to Pray for Orphans
At lunch yesterday we joked about the silly questions my kids are sometimes asked about being adopted. “Is he your adopted brother?” Dara: “He’s my brother.” “Do you speak Kazakh?” My favorite was, “Are you gonna tell them?” Well, the girls are Central Asian, so… But in the midst of Christmas tree lights, brightly wrapped presents, and dinners with way too …
Defend the Fatherless, part 3
David Platt said, “Orphans are easier to ignore before you know their names. They are easier to ignore before you see their faces. It is easier to pretend they’re not real before you hold them in your arms. But once you do, everything changes.” Orphans face incredible life challenges. Orphans are more vulnerable to slave labor, suicide, violence, homelessness, lack of education, …
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