New Book on Adoption and Orphan Care

Interested in adoption? In the process of adoption? Want to know how you can care for orphans? Wondering how you can approach this issue in a gospel-centered way? If so, Tony Merida and Rick Morton have written a new book you might want to check out - Orphanology: Awakening to Gospel-Centered Adoption and Orphan Care.

Thanks to Ben Mitchell for making me aware of this book.

A Hymn for Orphan Sunday

This is a great hymn for Orphan Sunday (which is this Sunday). It can be sung to the tune of "The Church's One Foundation."

Though I Was Born an Orphan
© 2009, Eric Shumacher and David L. Ward

Though I was born an orphan,
Abandoned and alone,
Enslaved and bound in darkness,
Without a hope or home,
The God of grace and mercy
From his eternal throne
Ordained to be my Father
And claim me as His own.

That I might be adopted
The Father sent his Son
To live in full obedience
And die for what I’ve done.
Now through his resurrection,
Through faith, with him I’m one.
A member of his household,
I am an heir, a son.

To soothe my fear and worry
The Spirit from on high
Was sent to be a witness
That “Father!” I might cry.
O How I love this Father!
I’m never left alone.
He’s come to dwell within me
Until He calls me home.

Since I have this adoption,
I cannot close my home
To widows and to orphans,
Abandoned and alone.
Lord, fill me with compassion
To love the fatherless,
That I might show the nations
How great my Father is!

Very Encouraging Resolution Proposed by Russell Moore

For those of you who are not Southern Baptists, this will obviously not have as much appeal to you (though I hope you will still appreciate it). But for those of us who are, the resolution being proposed for the 2009 Southern Baptist Convention by Dr. Russell Moore, Dean of Theology at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, is very encouraging. While so many of the resolutions voted on at the SBC seem to be concerned with peripheral issues, this one involves a genuine gospel issue - adoption and orphan care.

Read Moore's resolution here.

And read his new book, Adopted for Life: The Priority of Adoption for Christian Families and Churches.