If not us...

I found a song I am loving:  Audio Adrenaline's Kings and Queens - check out the song...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_cQXROe4dQ

I picture all the little lonely ones in cribs in orphanages around the world, just waiting for God to bring them someone to love them, to be precious to someone...  

if not us, tell me, who will be Jesus to the least of these...

If not us, oh but why not us?  We will bring another one of these precious children into our home to love them both AS IF they had been born to us...

You may not be called to adopt, but there are things you can do to be Jesus to them:

Sponsor a child:
 World Vision and Compassion are two places you can do that...

Give to Reece's Rainbow:
they advocate for and give grants to some of the least of these...

Become a Foster Care family:
good, loving homes for children in your neighborhood are desperately needed...

Help Hannes come home where he will know that he is LOVED!

http://reecesrainbow.org/47351/sponsorvanheerden

These could be our daughters and our sons...

they ARE our daughters and our sons - this rejected daughter has BECOME my daughter, this rejected son will BECOME my son... 

Break our hearts once again...

The ones we left behind in South Africa, the ones we will be leaving behind this time too...they break my heart...

Every child has a dream to belong and be loved...

Oh yes they do - they crawl into your lap, they hug you, they want any affection they can get - to feel loved and like they belong even for just the length of a hug...

...these are the lives that the world has forgotten

Pray about what you can do...


Lyrics:

Little hands, shoeless feet, lonely eyes looking back at me
Will we leave behind the innocent too brief
On their own, on the run when their lives have only begun
These could be our daughters and our sons
And just like a drum I can hear their hearts beating
I know my God won’t let them be defeated
Every child has a dream to belong and be loved

Chorus:
Boys become kings, girls will be queens
Wrapped in Your majesty
When we love, when we love the least of these
Then they will be brave and free
Shout your name in victory
When we love when we love the least of these
When we love the least of these

Break our hearts once again
Help us to remember when
We were only children hoping for a friend
Won’t you look around these are the lives that the world has forgotten
Waiting for doors of our hearts and our homes to open

CHORUS

If not us who will be like Jesus
To the least of these
If not us tell me who will be like Jesus
Like Jesus to the least of these


Boys become kings, girls will be queens
Wrapped in your majesty
When we love, when we love the least of these
Then they will be brave and free shout your name in victory
We will love we will love the least of these
We will love the least of these
We will love the least of these
We will love the least of these
We will love the least of these
We will love the least of these