As we pray for the orphan, it is good for us to realize those needs we prayer for are not merely “general and distant” but they exist right here where we live and serve.

Today we would like to invite you and your families to take some time “meeting” the children in NC who are actively waiting to be adopted: CLICK HERE

This list of 192 beautiful kids is a sobering reminder of the immediate need there is for families to consider adoption, and this doesn’t include the hundreds of children in the foster care system right here in New Hanover County.

As you look through this list of children, take time to pray for them by name. Pray for the various adoption agencies in NC. Pray for God’s people to take action to give these kids a forever family. Pray about how God would have you be involved. Pray big prayers…pray for all of these kids to be adopted…pray the church, including Crossway, would be able to meet needs in tangible and significant ways!

Maybe God wants you to adopt! Maybe God wants you to start an orphanage! Maybe God wants us all to be more informed so we know what it looks like to be actively engaged in caring for these children.

As we pray, let’s be mindful that we know the blessing of adoption. We know the profound blessing of being chosen by a father who wants us included in His family, and who has done everything needed to make that happen!

“For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, "Abba [Daddy!]! Father!" Romans 8:15