There are
approximately 147 million orphans in the world today
Each day, more than
850 American children enter the foster care system.
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
Each day alone,
16,000 children die form hunger related causes. That is 1 every 5 seconds or 15 million a year.
780 million people
lack access to clean drinking water.
Every 20 seconds a child dies from a water related illness.
“I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.” Matthew 25:40
Lack of access to clean
water and sanitation kills children at a rate equivalent of a jumbo jet
crashing every four hours.
Each year over
800,000 people are trafficked across international borders. Half of these are children.
We are the wealthiest
nation, with over 400,000 churches…and yet we only adopt 113,000 children
annually.
“If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?” 1 John 3:17