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 22 countries. It reported 60 percent overall of street children use some sort of substance, and close to 50 percent of them were using inhalants – predominantly glue, paint thinner.

Street children also use alcohol, tobacco and marijuana. But generally, inhalants are not regulated or illegal.

In high-income countries, injection drugs, including heroin, are more popular, which carries a high risk of HIV infection.

Street children use drugs because of peer pressure and the need to survive–in order to cope with cold, hunger, fear, or for pleasure or courage.

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Taught to hear messages from the goddess from a young age, Elantia’s life is shattered when she is captured from her home in southwest Britannia and sold as a slave in Macedonia. She wants nothing more than to escape and return home—after she kills the man who took the only good thing left in her life.

Tossed aside by the Empire, wounded tribune Quintus Valerius ends up in sleepy Philippi to retire. Manipulated into becoming the prison keeper, he vows to return to Rome as soon as possible to reclaim his reputation and his life. He is intrigued by the quiet Jewish teacher who speaks of truth and peace, but is convinced he can never have neither.

When Elantia’s shocking actions shake up the town and her life is threatened, Quintus risks what little he has left to save her—only to put Paulos and his friends in even greater danger.