Adoption & the Kingdom of God

What could be closer to the heart of God our Father than adoption? Think about it, many well known Biblical persons were adopted: Moses, Esther, and even Jesus was adopted by Joseph. We believe that adoption is the natural equivalent of the supernatural act of becoming a member of God’s family.

Orphan. It can be either a lack of natural parentage or spiritual parentage. Yet all over the world there are tens of thousands of children who are what we call total orphans: children who have no father, no mother, and no family to love and care for them.

Adoption is hope for the orphan. Since 1991, Christian World Adoption has helped place thousands of orphans into loving, permanent families. Once these children had little or no hope of a bright future. Now they have parents, a family, and a home they call their own.

Christian World Adoption’s mission is to help unite these orphans with loving, forever families. If the Lord truly places the lonely in families, then we see ourselves as His heart and hands fulfilling the command to help orphans in their distress—bringing hope to children who endure lives of loneliness, neglect and poverty.

We believe that adoption is a wonderful way to reach out to “the least of these.” We believe that the people of God should have more than just a passing involvement in the lives of the world’s orphans. We believe the body of Christ, themselves secure in God’s love through adoption, can best serve these needy children. Since we have so freely received, let us also freely give! Adoption is a very practical opportunity to love our neighbors as ourselves, and to take God’s message of redemption and life to the world. Who knows how the Lord may use these children in the future to touch their birth countries with the good news of Jesus Christ?

There are many families who will open their hearts and homes to orphans from Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America. Christian World is here to help envision and encourage believers to pray, to adopt, and offer financial assistance to qualifying families who desire to adopt but lack the funds.

There are many ways the Church can impact the world for Christ. We believe that international adoption is an incredibly effective way to communicate, and demonstrate, the love of God to a lost world, one child at a time.