Orphan Hope
This ministry leads our church in love and care for orphans in our community and around the world through prayer, ministry support, address of physical needs, financial assistance, education, awareness, and recruitment.
Our Vision is:
By God’s grace, the Orphan Hope ministry of Tabernacle Presbyterian Church exists to stimulate our church’s response to God’s call to care for orphans, to demonstrate the reality that all Christians are adopted by our heavenly Father, and to anticipate the Day when all orphans will be embraced as either a son or a daughter.
Our mission is:
- Stimulate—assist Tabernacle in providing care for orphans through multiple strategies
- Promote adoptions
- Promote foster care
- Promote care for orphans
- Demonstrate—educate and inspire a culture of compassion and solidarity in light of our spiritual heritage as adopted orphans
- Anticipate—renew our faith and perseverance as we glory in the ultimate assurance of success despite our limited endeavors to see orphans placed in forever families
Psalm 68:4-6
Sing to God, sing praise to his name, extol him who rides on the clouds– his name is the LORD– and rejoice before him. A father to the fatherless [orphans], a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling. God sets the lonely in families [adoption and foster care], he leads forth the prisoners with singing…[child slavery]
Rom 8:15-17
For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship [adoption]. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.” The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children. Now if we are children, then we are heirs– heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.
Rev 21:3-5
And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.” He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!” Then he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”
Quotes:
“Jesus has promised to make all things new, and He has also given us His word that He will return one day to completely rid the world of every expression and evidence of death and sin—including the deaths and sin that leave millions of children as orphans and those that enable us to mute their cries by our indifference, fear, selfishness, and excuses.”
—Steven Curtis Chapman, Restoring Broken Things
“Adoption is not just filling the last chair at the table of your American dream family, but of being a part of God’s story in the world to remove, ultimately, the word “orphan” from our human vocabulary. Remember the Kingdom.”
—Scotty Smith, “The Burning Heart Society”
