Orphan Summit – Session 1

• 10:47 AM Jason - From the Christian Alliance for Orphans – Summit V – Dallas, TX
  Opening video, “Why are you here?…You are here because in me they will find compassion, hope, and a future.” – “for in you the fatherless find compassion” ~Hosea 14:3
• 10:59 AM Jason - a family is powerful in the valley of the shadow of death
• 10:59 AM Jason - no child was meant to die alone
• 11:01 AM Jason - (Dennis Rainey speaking, President of FamilyLife)
• 11:03 AM Jason - You don’t know how God will use you to change the lives of others
• 11:04 AM Jason - 1. birth and bathe your ministry in prayer, it’s a spiritual re-calibration, to allow you to realize that it is about God
• 11:06 AM Jason - 2. we must leverage one another’s strengths, organizations must work together, large or small; find fresh ways to cooperate and innovate
• 11:10 AM Jason - he challenged 986 college students to commit 1 year of their lives to care for the physical and spiritual needs of orphans, those college students get it, they want an authentic life in Christ; 600 signed up that day.
• 11:12 AM Jason - the church is the key, it is the church that must own an orphan care ministry…let’s see 10% of churches get on board with this…that’s 40,000 churches
• 11:13 AM Jason - 3. unleash the power of children who do have families, and unleash adults that have a passion and vision for orphans
• 11:16 AM Jason - a 9-yr-old was able to start a foster care ministry in his church ministering to hundreds of kids in the area
• 11:18 AM Jason - why aren’t we swinging for the fences?
• 11:19 AM Jason - we are at the heart of God when we care for those who can’t do anything for us
• 11:20 AM Jason - expect and believe in the God of the Bible to use you to change the lives of children
• 11:22 AM Jason - (Jedd Medefind now speaking, Executive Director of CAFO, served as Special Assistant to President George W. Bush)
• 11:26 AM Jason - the fulcrum of power is not in the White House, not in Congress, not in the Board Rooms, but in those lives who are sold out for Jesus
• 11:31 AM Jason - he was in the adoption process and found out that they were pregnant and it almost felt as if it was a miscarriage for the child they were planning on adopting…then they had a miscarriage and through that God revealed the burden to care for the fatherless
• 11:34 AM Jason - they are back in the adoption process and adopting a child from Ethiopia…and once again they are pregnant again
• 11:40 AM Jason - (Rob Mitchell now speaking, author of Cast-away Kid)
• 11:42 AM Jason - He was abandoned at the age of 3, where she was sent to an orphanage
• 11:44 AM Jason - at 17, was given a one-way bus ticket to wherever he wanted to go and was told “Good luck, kid.”
• 11:47 AM Jason - Nola was a woman who took care of him and 25 other children 24 hours-a-day for 5-1/2 days a week
• 11:49 AM Jason - Nola had prayed that she’d find something to love in each and every one of them
• 11:52 AM Jason - an afflicted child (by depression, loneliness, bi-polar, etc) does not know how to open up their hearts to allow hope into their hearts
• 11:54 AM Jason - kids want to know the truth about their family, who their parents were; “if my mom was a crack whore, then tell me that she was so that I can process it.”
• 12:05 PM Jason - personal note: listening to this story is tough to type
• 12:08 PM Jason - it is so special to remember the names
• 12:11 PM Jason - love is a 4-letter word that is spelled T-I-M-E
• 12:15 PM Jason - Jesus was betrayed by people that he was supposed to be able to trust…
• 12:16 PM Jason - the anger that orphans go through daily is exhausting

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