![]() ![]() Soon the world will no longer see me, but you will see me. ![]() John 14:18-20 No, I will not abandon you as orphans–I will come to you. “We care for orphans not because we are rescuers, but because we are the rescued.” -David Platt.ġ.“Genuine faith shelters the orphan.” – Russell Moore.It’s truly amazing to see Christians going on mission trips to orphanages and it’s also amazing when Christians adopt orphans. In the same way He loves and helps orphans we are to imitate Him and do the same. God comforts, encourages, and upholds orphans because He loves them. God Almighty is the father of the fatherless. ![]() Even if our earthly father is not there, we can rest assure that in the Lord we have the perfect father. These efforts provided a significant contribution to the development of modern welfare, which in the 20th century is mainly the responsibility of state, communal, or humanitarian organizations but is still characterized strongly by its Christian roots.When you become a Christian you are automatically in God’s family. His nursery schools were imitated in many areas through «Oberlin Societies». He led in establishing schools, roads, bridges, banks, stores, agricultural societies (with the introduction of potato cultivation), and industries. Responsible for a remote and barren area in the Vosges Mountains, Oberlin transformed the impoverished villages into prosperous communities. An exemplary proponent of comprehensive Christian caring and curing for the whole person and community was the Alsatian Lutheran pastor Johann Friedrich Oberlin (1740-1826). Francke’s orphanage became a model that was frequently imitated in England and also in North America. In Holland almost every congregation had its own orphanage, which was sustained through the gifts of the members.įollowing the great wars of the 17th century, the orphanages were reorganized pedagogically, notably by August Hermann Francke, who connected the orphanage in Glaucha, Germany, which he had founded, with a modern system of secondary schools. In the Reformed churches the establishment of orphanages was furthered systematically. In this area, as in others, a secularization of church institutions took place in connection with the spreading autonomy of the cities. They also fought against the practice of abandoning unwanted children and established foundling hospitals. The church had founded orphanages during the 4th century, and the monasteries took over this task during the Middle Ages. Widows formed a special group in the congregations and were asked to help with nursing care and other congregational tasks as long as they did not need help and care themselves. From the beginning the Christian congregation cared for the poor, the sick, widows, and orphans. ![]()
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