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Five years ago we started Project 127 with the goal of finding a Christian home for every child in Colorado's foster system. <\/span><\/h3>\n

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Here's how we're doing: 24 Orientations with 2070 people in attendance. 398 Families from 163 churches. 125 Families have served 226 children. 92 children adopted with 69 on their way–5 more will be adopted this friday into 3 families!<\/span><\/h3>\n

By they way, that's a savings of $5.6 million to the taxpayers of Colorado<\/span><\/p>\n

Check out Project127.com<\/a> to join the movement.<\/p>\n

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Five years ago we started Project 127 with the goal of finding a Christian home for every child in Colorado's foster system.  Here's how we're doing: 24 Orientations with 2070 people in attendance. 398 Families from 163 churches. 125 Families have served 226 children. 92 children adopted with 69 on their way–5 more will be…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gods-heart-for-orphans"],"yoast_head":"\nProject 127 - The Jazz Theologian<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2009\/11\/project-127.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Project 127 - 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