Orphans — Solving the World's Greatest Problems

SOLVING

Orphans

DEFENDING VULNERABLE CHILDREN

The vulnerability of children, particularly orphans, remains acute in many countries and communities globally. What can be done?

JAMES 1:27

“Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.”

Water Mission believes that the global water crisis can be solved. They take a comprehensive approach to combating the crisis with water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) solutions.

18 million children worldwide have lost both parents.

This is the worldwide conservative estimate according to UNICEF. It doesn’t account for children whose parents are unable to parent them or for children who have just one parent. While child mortality and nutritional rates have improved in most every nation, defenseless children are the most at risk of violence, abuse, starvation, disease, and abandonment.

Orphans and vulnerable children face seemingly insurmountable odds of obtaining a healthy and stable life as adults if they are not supported and surrounded by a loving family.

In the United States, 50% of the homeless, 60% of child sex trafficking victims, and over 75% of the prison population spent time in foster care.

For the Church, serving these children starts with equipping and surrounding biological families facing crisis. 76% of children in the foster care system in the United States are removed from their homes for preventable, poverty-related issues.

How can the Church serve these families and vulnerable and orphaned children?

Michael Ketterer – Adopted Into Love

Looking Out for the Underdog

Jami and Clint Kaeb have eight children and involve all of them in their charitable giving decisions. Jami leads the Forgotten Initiative, a nonprofit serving foster care families.

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Michael Ketterer: Adopted into Love

America’s Got Talent Golden Buzzer recipient, Michael Ketterer, is a father of six. Michael’s journey of fatherhood has taken him through more work, pain and challenge than he ever thought possible, but it’s also shown him more than he ever could’ve imagined about the love and care of God as a father in his own life.

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Treasured Above All Things

Neil and Lesego Holsapfel build sustainable South African communities one village at a time. Their nonprofit, Raising the Children, works to educate orphans and other vulnerable children in the rural villages.

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Near-Death Leads to Life-Giving

How Nathan Harrison’s near-death experience with his son compelled him to launch a ministry for vulnerable children today operating in nine countries around the world.

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Icing on the Cupcake

When Mango Enberg adopted two girls from Guatemala, she discovered they had never had a birthday party. Fulfilling their wish was the start of a cupcake business.

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