2. Responding to the Fatherless
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Responding to the Fatherless
Bruce Kendrick

3. Only 2 out of every 15 orphans in the world are actually orphans.
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4. Less than 1% of women with unplanned pregnancies will choose adoption.
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5. How does the Bible inform our response?
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6. Leviticus 25:25
If one of your fellow Israelites becomes poor and sells some of their property, their nearest relative is to come and redeem what they have sold.
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7. Deuteronomy 10:18-19
He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the foreigner residing among you, giving them food and clothing. And you are to love who who are foreigners, for you yourselves were foreigners in Egypt.
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8. Psalm 68:5-6a
A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows is God in his holy dwelling. God sets the lonely in families…
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9. Jeremiah 22:15-16
“Does it make you a king to have more and more cedar? Did not your father have food and drink? He did what was right and just, so all went well with him. He defended the cause of the poor and the needy, and so all went well. Is that not what it means to know me?” declares the Lord.
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10. James 1:27
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.
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11. How should we respond to the needs of vulnerable children and families?
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12. Educate children’s and student ministries to care for children with trauma.
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13. Equip and support at-risk, foster, and adoptive families.
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14. Engage in the trenches of child welfare in your community.
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15. Responding to the Fatherless
Bruce Kendrick – Director of Life Initiatives