In May of 2006, our family decided to take the leap, and move forward with the decision to pursue adopting out of the Colorado foster care system. We had been researching different avenues by which to go, and heard about Project 1.27. Below is a video about Project 1.27.
Please take the time to watch it.
God loves children. But for 80 years too many children and youth have been languishing in the U.S. foster care system. That’s too long. Over 120,000* of them are legally free for adoption and waiting for their forever homes and every year their numbers keep growing. It’s costing taxpayers $283 million a day! ~video and excerpt taken from Project127.com *2005 statistic
Statistics for 2007 show that 496,000 children were served by the national foster care system. 287,000 exited the system by either "aging out"or being placed back with family, while 130,000 of those are waiting for forever families. (AFCARS 2007)
There are so many ways to help these children in need. If you feel called to open your hearts and homes by way of foster care or foster to adopt you can contact your local department of human services. You may also visit the following links:
Not everyone is called to foster or adopt, but we all can pray. Please pray for the families that do feel called to foster/adopt. Please pray for the children in need of safe homes. The statistics can be overwhelming, but our God is bigger than anything.
Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress... James 1:27
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