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The July edition of Christianity Today<\/a> is focused on the needs of orphans around the world. It’s about time! The lead article is written by Dr. Russell Moore<\/a> entitled, “Abba Changes Everything – Why Every Christian is Called to Rescue Orphans.”<\/div>\n
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A special thanks to my friend, Jedd Medefind<\/a> who wrote this piece on Christian Alliance for Orphans blog<\/a>. I am privileged to walk beside men like Jedd who are walking the talk of caring for the poor. I’m grateful that he mentioned Fields of the Fatherless<\/a>, as one of the top 5 books on orphan care!<\/div>\n
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“It’s a beautiful thing.  For Christians who yearn to see the Church grow impassioned for the Gospel and the orphan, the newly-arrived July edition of Christianity Today<\/span> is little short of thrilling.  The cover declares, Abba Changes Everything:  Why every Christian is called to rescue orphans. <\/em><\/strong>Inside, an excellent introduction framing the magazine is headlined, “Adoption is Everywhere<\/a>.  Even God is into it.”<\/p>\n

That the leading print voice of evangelicalism in America would choose to make orphan care and adoption the center of its July magazine underscores what many of us already knew:  God is stirring His people to again be known as those who “defend the cause of the fatherless” (Is 1:17).<\/p>\n

Page 18 begins a tremendous article by Russell Moore, which gave the magazine its cover language, “Abba Changes Everything<\/a>.”  I’ve heard Dr. Moore articulate this message from the podium, via radio and over the dinner table, but I must admit I felt my heart expand against my ribcage as I read this fresh expression.  Beautiful and heartbreaking; daunting and inspiring; and profoundly rooted in the ultimate reason for it all:  the Father-love of our God revealed through the Gospel.<\/p>\n

Page 23 starts the cover story, “Coming Alongside Parents:  Churches are getting real about adoption’s challenges–and helping families after the child arrives<\/a>.”  It shares the experience of Summit VI and highlights the robust growth of orphan ministry within churches.  Writes author Carla Barnhill, “…[T]he Summit drew more than 1,200 attendees, most of them ministering to orphans through their home churches.  Watching those gathered, I knew this was not my parent’s generation.”<\/p>\n

Finally, page 52 carries the section “My Top 5 Books on Orphan Care<\/a>” that I had the opportunity to provide:   Russell Moore’s Adopted for Life<\/span>, Dr. Karyn Purvis’The Connected Child<\/span>; Melissa Fay Greene’s There is No Me Without You<\/span>; Tom Davis’ Fields of the Fatherless<\/span>, and Doug Sauder’s The One Factor<\/span>.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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