Encourage your church to participate in Orphan Sunday.
God instructs us in James 1:27 to care for widows and orphans.
“Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and refusing to let the world corrupt you.”—James 1:27 (NIV)
God often uses children to open the doors to these ministries. So how can children, along with their families, care for these vulnerable people?
The key to caring, for both orphans and widows in our own community and around the world, lies in building relationships.
Here are a few tangible ways for children to build and strengthen ongoing relationships:
1. Be a friend. The best way kids can care for orphans in their community is to be a normal friend to them. The same is true for widows. Most widows would welcome having a child or two come to visit them. During these visits why not share stories, sing together, play a game, or do a craft?
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