hope for the helpless

a project to encourage adoption and other acts of social justice from a Biblical standpoint project on flickr

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How about a healthy dose of perspective?

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"My children, we must not only talk about loving people; we must show we love people by what we do for them. We must really love them." -1 John 3:18 (WE)

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"And anyone who welcomes a little child like this on my behalf is welcoming me." -Jesus' words in Matthew 18:5

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Hosea 14:3: "In you the orphan finds mercy."

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Psalm 10:17-18 (NLT): "Lord, you know the hopes of the helpless. Surely you will hear their cries and comfort them. You will bring justice to the orphans and the oppressed..."

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Matthew 25:35,36: "For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me."

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Romans 8:15: "So you have not received a spirit that makes you fearful slaves. Instead, you received God's spirit when he adopted you as his own children."

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"Father to the fatherless, defender of widows--this is God, whose dwelling is holy. God places the lonely in families..." --Psalm 68:5,6

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artwork by Austin Blasingame found in a copy of Relevant Magazine

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"What Does it Mean to be a Dalit? *untouchable As a child you may be sold into bonded labor to work in cramped quarters with no ventilation, carry heavy loads that permanently injure your growing body, or weave carpet threads until your fingers bleed just to receive pennies toward paying off your family's debt. An education is a distant dream. In your community, 90 percent of the people can't even write their own names." --taken from a Gospel for Asia missions magazine

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Proverbs 31:8,9: "Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy."

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"You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving." --Amy Carmichael (1867-1951), follower of Christ & missionary to India

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Matthew 25:40: "I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me."

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(this is an especially convicting mailing that I received from World Vision several years back)

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1 Corinthians 13:3: "If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing."

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This is the cover of a project I made for a friend to encourage her in her passion for adoption.  She hopes to create an organization that promotes adoption as a response to God's calling, not just as a second choice.  She also hopes to be able to equip churches to rally around families who feel called to adopt but do not have the funding.

There are 15 pages to this gift that I made her.  I think I might try posting one picture a week...care to follow along?