Adoption Support Group Fellowship!

Just a gorgeous day to celebrate families who have adopted and come together for fun, food, and great fellowship!! The following post is on HPC Servolution blog:

His Heart’s for Orphans (HHFO), the Adoption Ministry life group of Healing Place Church, had their quarterly adoption support group fellowship last Sunday at our house! There was lots of great food, beautiful weather, great conversation and fun for the children. Many different countries, cultures and blends of families were represented. Children from here in the U.S. also China, Taiwan, Africa and Peru. It is so awesome to hear the stories of how they became a family. To have all of these families with children from all over the world end up in a backyard in South Louisiana together enjoying each other’s company is very humbling and can only be God!

Orphans and Adoption….. That is the passion of “His Heart for Orphans” We are a group of people who have either adopted, are in the process of adopting, want to adopt, or just have a heart for orphans. What ties us together is the fatherless and the desire to help these children who do not have a Mom and a Dad get connected to their forever family. It is our desire to support other families who want to mirror what God did for us: “His unchanging plan has always been to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. And this gave him great pleasure.”

Two years ago, Servolution 2007, we did a two-room makeover for the meeting rooms at the state office where foster children and their birth parents visit. God used that to open many doors, and give us favor with the foster care system. This year for Servolution 2009, HHFO will be hosting a Fun Day party on April 4th at BRDC. The goal of the day is to introduce families to the precious foster children that are available for adoption here in Louisiana, in hopes that some or all of these children can be adopted. For some of these children, it is there last hope to get adopted before they age out of the foster care system.

Did you know: there are over 800,000 foster children in the US . Annually 20,000 kids age out of foster care nationwide, an increase of 41 percent since 1998. One third of them didn’t have a high school diploma and about 20 percent become homeless. Nearly half of the young women who have been in foster care become pregnant at least once by age 19. The need is great.

If you or your church is looking for ways to serve the foster-care youth of your community, please contact us ephesians1five@cox.net and we will give you simple steps of how you can serve these precious children!