I recently found the blog of an organization called The ABBA Fund which helps provide financial solutions for adoption. Here is some staggering information that I found there:
My best guess is that 40-50 million orphans worldwide are adoptable or would be best cared for through adoption. Ideally that means adoption locally/indigenously first and then adoption internationally.
As for Christians, according to Mission Frontiers, globally there are:
Christian Believers — 800 million who have been born again into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
Other Christians — 1.37 billion who consider themselves Christians because they come from a Christian culture.
Culturally near non-Christians — 1.8 billion are not yet Christians but live in a people where a viable, indigenous church movement has been established.
Therefore, if roughly 6% of the born again Christians in the world adopted we could care for all the adoptable orphans in the world (I have heard 7% used and that might be true as well).
Not 80%, not 60%, not 30%, but 6%. Ponder that, it will probably blow your mind as well.
1 comment:
Thanks for the reminder. This news is sad in a number of different ways in our opinions. Some people thought we were crazy for having four foster sons we wanted to adopt, but their numbers weren't even a drop in the bucket of the millions of kids needing a home.
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