Hope for the Orphans

Dads, November is National Adoption Month – a great chance to take lead in this area. Here are just a few suggestions:

1. Listen to Family Life’s special broadcasts on adoption – click here
2. Initiate conversation with your wife about adoption and your possible calling to adopt or support adoption. Ask how her heart is doing.
3. Pray together about adoption and for those currently in the process who are waiting, longing, trusting the Lord.
4. Talk to your children about adoption.
5. Celebrate your adopted children’s adoption.
6. Read a book about adoption like Fields of the Fatherless.
7. Listen to Piper preach on adoption.
8. Consider donating financially to help a Christian couple adopt through a no-interest loan. More info here.
9. Do a Biblical study of adoption and pray about how you will live out passages like James 1:27.
10. Go oversees and visit an orphanage or talk to your local Children’s Home Society or Department of Social Services about the orphans in your backyard.

I would love to hear any other ways we dad’s can lead our families in this area for the glory of God and the good of the children.

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