Get the Facts

The facts listed below come from the following web sources.
SOS Children Villages.
Orphan Hope International


Fact: Worldwide an estimate 153 million children from new born to age 17 have lost one or both parents.

Fact: Every 2.2 seconds a child loses a parent somewhere in the world.

Fact: Every day 5,760 more children become orphans.

Fact: Every day aproximatly 30,000 children die of preventable causes.

Fact: By 2015 it is projected that there will be more than 400 million orphaned children worldwide.

Fact: In developing countries, more than one third of all children live in poverty.

Fact:  In the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asian, a total of 1.3 million children live in institutional care.

Fact: Approximately 250,000 children are adopted annually, but... Each year 14, 505, 000 children grow up as orphans and age out of the system by age sixteen.  

Fact: Studies have shown that 10% – 15% of these children commit suicide before they reach age eighteen.

Fact: Putting a child in an orphanage makes them NO less an orphan. 

Fact: The number of people it takes to make a difference, ONE.

Fact:  What the church is doing right now is NOT enough.  

Please watch this short video about how Christians choose to spend their money.

Church, we are failing.  It is that simple.  The number of orphans is increasing drastically and orphanages are not the answer.  

Our Heavenly Father took us in at whatever the cost.  He sought us over everything else.  He seeks us passionately, sending His own son to take the cross for us.  He payed for us to be in his family.  He LOVES us that much.  He knows we are going to fail but He pays everything for us anyway. 

Jesus whole point in coming was to make us a part of His Father's family.  If we are suppose to imitate Jesus than wouldn't bring orphans into our family be a wonderful way to do so?  James 1:27 Yet, many of us are too scared or comfortable to make any real change for these children.   

FAMILY, that is how we are suppose to live, in a family.