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5 Tips for Getting Your Church Involved in Orphan Care
It seems like an easy assumption that any church would jump at the opportunity to care for orphans and widows. But if you've ever tried to get your church involved in orphan care, you may have hit a few unexpected challenges. After years of working with faithful churches who generously serve orphans and widows together with our in-country partners, here are five tips we’ve learned for getting your church involved in orphan care: 1. Be patient Don’t be offended if your pastor doesn’t have time to think this through immediately. Or if multiple committees want to get involved and do Orphan Rescue
Share the Love All Year Round with Our New Monthly Giving Program
Do you know how the Amish relocate buildings? They can move an entire barn across a field with their bare hands. Yes, an entire barn that was already built and standing. People crowd around every single spare inch of the barn’s outer walls, everyone squats, reaches their fingers under the dirt so they can grip around the bottom beam, and on the count of three, they lift. Then, they walk that barn from one side of a field to the other, leaving it completely intact, and using no high-powered machinery. Move a Barn! You may look at a whole home Newsletter
3 Important Things You Should Know About Kinship United
Kinship United began over 20 years ago, and during those years, our team and our incredible supporters have built a strong foundation to help thousands of orphans and widows worldwide. With that many years under our belt, there’s a lot to get to know about our organization! So let’s get started! What are 3 important things you should know about Kinship United? 1. A Kinship Project always starts with a Church You know the verse, “Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress.” (James 1:27) We know Kinship
Top 10 Reasons Why Monthly Giving Might Be Right for You
Giving monthly to an organization is a big decision! Monthly givers are the backbone of charities like ours. And your support helps Kinship Leaders breathe a sigh of relief knowing they’ll have resources to care for their Kinship Kids each month. Keep reading to find out the top reasons why becoming a monthly supporter of Kinship United might be right for you! 10. Exponential Impact You’re not in this alone! Kinship United partners with other organizations that build Kinship Homes, drill wells, provide in-kind supplies like food, medicine, and much more so that your monthly support goes a long way Orphan Rescue
Be a Light in the Darkness for Orphans and Widows Around the World
Tragedy takes on many forms. Over the years I’ve heard a lot of different stories about how children become orphans. Whether it’s by disease, abuse, or just by sheer accident, one thing is still the same: in an instant, a child that once had the security of a family is suddenly all alone. One woman told me a tragic story that is actually pretty common. You can watch her share it in a video here. She told me about how she fled her village in the middle of the night as gunfire popped all around her, and flames lit up Orphans and Widows
