{"id":1366,"date":"2011-11-11T13:42:26","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T18:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jazztheologian\/?p=1366"},"modified":"2011-11-11T13:42:26","modified_gmt":"2011-11-11T18:42:26","slug":"celebrating-national-adoption-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2011\/11\/celebrating-national-adoption-month.html","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating National Adoption Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/national-adoption-month.adoption.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">November is National Adoption Month<\/a>. \u00a0God is up to something. \u00a0The Bride of Christ is waking up all across this nation to the need to care for orphans through adoption and foster care.<\/p>\n<p>James 1.27 makes it clear that to be Christian is to care for orphans, &#8220;Religion that god our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: \u00a0to look after orphans and widows in their distress&#8230;&#8221; \u00a0The question is not, &#8220;Are you caring for an orphan but how?&#8221; \u00a0If we are a Christian we either adopt, foster or help someone who is.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the story of what is happening in Colorado through <a href=\"http:\/\/project127.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Project 127<\/a>.<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZmTTA8kxxLk\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZmTTA8kxxLk<\/a>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November is National Adoption Month. \u00a0God is up to something. \u00a0The Bride of Christ is waking up all across this nation to the need to care for orphans through adoption and foster care. 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Author of Finding the Groove: Composing a Jazz-Shaped Faith (Zondervan) and the upcoming, Strange Fruit: The Cross as a Way of Life (2011). Founder of Project 127, a ministry dedicated to seeing the day when there are no children waiting for homes in Colorado's foster care system. Robert deeply desires to see the body of Christ mobilized to serve the least of these. The poor, the down and out, the disenfranchised and disabled, those deemed unimportant and the unborn. He believes that God loves all people yet he has a special heart for the poor and the poor in spirit, the miserable and the marginalized. A Contributing Editor for Leadership Journal and Urbanfaith.com. He acquired a B.A. in Bibilcal Studies from Colorado Christian University and a Master of Arts in World Christianity (Missiology) from Denver Seminary. Robert is married to the love of his life, Barbara, and they have six energetic children (3 boys &amp; 3 girls--one bio, five adopted--two from Ethiopia). 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