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Pastor Robert Gelinas has a Grander Vision for churches in Colorado: that churches would band together and care for orphans in their state. Now, Colorado is a state where families are waiting for children to adopt out of foster care.
Last fall, Robert spoke at the National Foster Care Initiative in Oklahoma City. The following are some of his remarks:
Pharoah’s Daughter went the Nile River to take a bath. I’ve always found that odd that she would take a bath in the Nile River. Of all the places she could have bathed, she chose that place. And what was so odd about it was that we know what her father did. It was her father who decided to have all the of the Hebrew baby boys thrown into the Nile River. So she decides to go down by the riverside. She decides to immerse herself in the mess.
She decides to be there, wondering, “Is there anything I can do? Is there something that my family could do? What if I could save some? What if I could save one?” And she found herself a part of God’s plan.
Those are the questions my wife and I were asking some 20 years ago when we got married – and shortly after that made the decision to build our family through adoption . . .
Watch the rest of his remarks in the seven-minute video above. To learn more about Robert and Project 1:27, go to http://project127.com/.
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