My pledge

I know that: I want to abide in Him

Because …. I want to live a life of significance and satisfying fruitfulness.

I also know that God provides when we respond.

These are the truths that should direct our decisions regarding the orphans:
1. God is deeply in love with the poor and the outcast
2. God wants to love them through me… (Judy Douglas – Lima 2008)
3. Joy comes when we participate with God in caring for people that are so close to His heart.
4. I had experienced God’s unconditional love for me during our adoption journey
5. I had the most tremendous feeling of Joy, pleasure and contentment when I was with the children of the orphanage in Brazil.

My part:

I will help people God places around me of good testimonies, which will want to adopt children.
· I will encourage them
· I will give money to help
· I will guide them to resources
· I will be there to help as needed

I will help the orphans God places around me.
· I will pray for them that they would find a home
· I will pray to God to direct me if my house is their home
· I will pray for their conversion
· I will pray they understand that God is their Father
· I will tell them that God is their Father
· I will tell them I am praying for them
· I will visit them everywhere God takes me

I will do these practical things:
· When I travel to places and I forget to change the money back to dollars, I will use that money to send to orphanages. (Deuteronomy 24)
· I will “go back to get” what I have forgotten only to give it to the orphan. (Deuteronomy 24)
· I will help the Christian organizations that God has placed around me that care for the orphans in a loving way.
· Before traveling to a city or a different country, I will ask the Lord to direct me to the orphanage in that place so I can visit them.

“He who has pity on the poor lends to the Lord, and He will pay back what he has given”. Proverbs 19:17