In the article Churches Adopt Adoption, Christianity Today discusses how Christians are working to help families who adopt. Project 1.27′s work in Colorado is noted.

Project 1.27 is a member of the Christian Alliance for Orphans.  We would like to pass along information about their upcoming Summit on April 29-30 in Minneapolis, MN.  If you would like to know more please click the banner on the left.

Has Changed!

We are serving our children of need at the banquet.  If you’d still like to join us, please buy a seat, seating is limited. We would love to have you help serve as well!  Please register at the link below

Our auction will be an online auction!  See the sidebar for auction items.  The auction will go until Monday Evening!  God bless you all.

I’m invisible

A joint collaboration between Focus on the Family and the Colorado Department of Human Services to raise the awareness of waiting children in the Colorado foster care system.

Last November, the community of Colorado Springs responded to the needs of the legal orphans waiting in Colorado foster care for adoptive families. Approximately 1,300 people came to Wait No More to hear about the waiting children and youth in Colorado as well as learn more about the process of adoption. As a result, 260 families initiated the process of adoption from foster care!

On October 17th, 2009, we’ll be hosting the second Wait No More event in Colorado, this time in Loveland.  The event will be at Resurrection Fellowship in Loveland, Colorado.  Together, we’re hoping no child in Colorado is waiting for someone to call mom or dad.

On Orphan Sunday, Christians stand for the orphan. We are a people called to defend the fatherless…to care for the child that has no family…to visit orphans in their distress.

From many sources, one voice. Hundreds of events across America and beyond, all sharing a single goal:  that God’s great love for the orphan will find echo in our lives as well.

Each as they are led. Sermons and small groups, concerts and prayer gatherings—each rousing believers with God’s call to care for the orphan…and what we can do in response.

November 8, 2009. Orphan Sunday is your opportunity to rouse church, community and friends to God’s call to care for the orphan.

History

Many churches and organizations have hosted “Orphan Sundays” over the years.  With a nationwide Orphan Sunday, the Christian Alliance for Orphans and the Cry of the Orphan partners seek to add a unified voice and coordinated effort to the many worthy efforts that preceded this year.

The seeds of this united Orphan Sunday come especially as a gift from the Church in Africa.  While attending a church service in Zambia, an American visitor was struck by the pastor’s passionate call to care for orphans in the local community, which had been ravaged by AIDS and poverty.  Members of the church faced deep need themselves.  But as the service ended, one after another stepped forward with money, food and other goods-some even taking off their own shoes and placing them in the offering for orphans.

The visitor, Gary Schneider, was so impacted that he began to help Zambian leaders coordinate Orphan Sunday efforts across Zambia.  These efforts spread to the U.S. in 2003 with help from Every Orphan’s Hope and other organizations.  (Orphan Sunday is licensed to the Christian Alliance for Orphans as a registered trademark of Every Orphan’s Hope).

The Christian Alliance for Orphans honors the church in Zambia for the gift of Orphan Sunday.  We pray the Church in America may be as faithful to reflect God’s heart for the orphan, both near and far.

“The National Foster Care Prayer Vigil is calling followers of Christ together across the country during the week of May 17-24 to cry out to God on behalf of children and youth in our nation’s foster care system, their families, their workers, and the church as it responds to the needs of those involved in the foster care system.”

This is a free community workshop event!  It will be held April 25th from 9am to 12pm at Faith Evangelical Free Church (3920 Shields Street , Fort Collins, Colorado).

For more information download the flyer and brochure or call 970.226.2095 or visit www.faithefc.org.