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The Power of ‘Yes’: A Personal Account of Foster Care Ministry
by Emily Furr, Mission Georgia Mobilizer I have always struggled with James 1:27. “Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.” Caring for widows & orphans. Widows. Maybe take them a meal,…
Read MoreDiapers from Jesus
by Emma Pirela, Mission Georgia Refugee Ministry Mobilizer I could never tell you what it is like to step out of a Kenyan refugee camp for the first time. I could never explain what it’s like to be a young mom, 6 months pregnant, boarding a plane to restart my life in a far-off city…
Read MoreYour Church Can Help Solve Georgia’s Foster Care Crisis
by Jill Richards, West Central Foster Care Advocate “If one family in one third of all churches in America would adopt, there would be no more orphans looking for home.” This was a statement my husband relayed to me while he was at a conference in the spring of 2010. My husband and I discussed…
Read MoreFrom a Child’s Dream to a Family’s Mission: My Journey Through Adoption and Foster Care
by Jodie Marsh, Mission Georgia Mobilizer Adoption has been in my heart since the age of five. I remember watching a television show about adoption and telling my mother as a matter of fact that one day I would adopt. Then I marched my sassy little self out of the room as if the matter…
Read MoreAnti-Human-Trafficking Ninja for Jesus
by Rhiannon Dobson Though I wear many hats and have many titles, the best way to describe me is like a favorite song of mine – “I’m just a nobody, trying to tell everybody, about Somebody who saved my soul.” But long before that song was around or I lived in South Georgia, those words…
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