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Roughly 4,547 children are orphaned daily due to Aids in the relatively small country of Ethiopia. On a map, Ethiopia looks only a bit larger than Texas. So it makes this statistic even more unbelievable to me. How do they even keep up with well over 4,000 new orphans a day? I don’t pretend to know much about Ethiopia. But I would assume that they can’t keep up with numbers like those. How would America keep up with a number like that? I can’t eve imagine it. And so I would assume many many many children die.And so I wonder if one day in our future Jeremy and I will be making a trip to Ethiopia to pick up one or two little ones. It’s been a thought for me for a while. I’m not sure if I can sit with that statistic and not do something. Even if it’s just 1 or 2 little lives that are changed.
I know that with adoption the need truly is everywhere. I don’t think that you can choose the wrong path. There was a real need to find a family for Holden last May. And I know that God purposed us for one another. There is a real need through the state where children are being neglected and abused. And obviously there is a need internationally, outside of what we are able to see each day, where it’s just an entirely different world for those children.
2 comments:
Wow.
It's simply heartbreaking to even think about.
Have you heard the interview that Steven Curtis Chapman did after Maria's death where he said that if just 7% of Christians would do something about orphans or adopting...there would be no children in need of families. That's not even saying that 7% adopted, but maybe supported adoption financially, did foster care, etc.
That also makes me sad that that is all it would take...7% of Christians.
Thanks for sharing!
molly, i didn't hear the interview but i have heard the statistic. that's all it takes! 7% of christians to get involved. why is it so hard to get handle on, i wonder. i see adoption all around me, more and more these days. and no longer just for infertility reasons, but instead for families that have hearts drawn to it. and you know i love it! but seeing the need in numbers can be so heartbreaking. i wonder if seeing it in faces might make something happen . . .
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