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 when they aged out of the system at 16 to 18 years old. The study found that two years after aging out of the orphanages, about 5,000 of the 15,000 children were unemployed, and about 6,000 were homeless.
When children age out of the system—usually at 16–they often walk out the doors and are expected to find something to eat, find a place to live and find a job. Since they are still children, it is no wonder most of them fail.
This holds true in America as well. Today, children from fatherless homes account for 90 percent of all homeless and runaway children.
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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
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.