Thursday, November 18, 2010

November is Orphan Awareness Month


"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."


~ Anonymous


 
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- More than 46 million orphans in Africa.



- More than 71 million orphans in Asia.


- More than 10 million orphans in Latin America.


- More than 120,000 orphans in the United States.


Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.


--James 1.27 (NIV)

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