For the Love
The Vulnerable
Carl Nichols

Then Jesus told them this parable: “Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it?
Luke 15:3-7

And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders and goes home. Then he calls his friends and neighbors together and says, ‘Rejoice with me; I have found my lost sheep.’
Luke 15:3-7

I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.
Luke 15:3-7

FOR THE LOVE OF THE VULNERABLE

A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling. God sets the lonely in families.
Psalm 68:5-6a

Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow.
Isaiah 1:17

But you, God, see the trouble of the afflicted; you consider their grief and take it in hand. The victims commit themselves to you; you are the helper of the fatherless.
Psalm 10:14

The proportion of single-parent households in a community predicts its rate of violent crime and burglary, but the community’s poverty level does not.

35% of children live in single parent homes

400,000 Foster Children in US

240,000 Foster Homes

23 out of every 10,000 in Henry County

217 In Henry County

15 Active Homes

We will embrace the fatherless because the church is Plan A

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

To raise a generation of children that never know a day without knowing Jesus

We will embrace orphans because we were once spiritual orphans

But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, 
Galatians 4:4-7 (English Standard Version)

to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.
Galatians 4:4-7 (English Standard Version)

And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!” So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.
Galatians 4:4-7 (English Standard Version)

Ways we can all embrace orphans
• Consider foster care and/or adoption 
• Serve at Relevant Church
• Give radically
• Prayer and Support