- 1:46 PM jasonryoung - watching good opening video on why we are at this orphan summit. not to promote our stuff but because God called us.
- 1:47 PM jasonryoung - the body of Christ is to be mobilized to care in the name of Jesus.
- 1:48 PM jasonryoung - ran into Jim Bone with Bethany Christian Services. great guy.
- 1:54 PM jasonryoung - God’s heart for the orphan is being proclaimed!
- 1:55 PM jasonryoung - listening to Dennis Rainey speaking.
- 1:59 PM jasonryoung - no child was ever meant to be abandoned and to die alone
- 1:59 PM jasonryoung - God made children to be part of a family. to be loved.
- 2:00 PM jasonryoung - we did not get in this crisis overnight nor will we get out of it overnight
- 2:00 PM jasonryoung - believe God for too much rather than too little
- 2:01 PM jasonryoung - if we are Christ-followers, we have been spiritually adopted into His family
- 2:03 PM jasonryoung - John 6-a little bit in the hands of almighty God can go a long way
- 2:03 PM jasonryoung - we have no idea how our little steps can change the course of someone’s life
- 2:04 PM jasonryoung - birth and bathe your ministry in prayer
- 2:04 PM jasonryoung - prayer recalibrates life
- 2:04 PM jasonryoung - prayer reminds us whose problem this is any way-God’s
- 2:04 PM jasonryoung - let’s go to God-ask Him for help
- 2:05 PM jasonryoung - leverage one another’s strengths-it’s a team effort
- 2:06 PM jasonryoung - if we think our organization alone will address the issue, we are simply arrogant
- 2:11 PM jasonryoung - the church is the key-we must focus on adoption, foster care, and orphanages-we must mobilize people
- 2:12 PM jasonryoung - want the world to take notice of our Gospel…maybe if we united and had singular focus
- 2:12 PM jasonryoung - unleash adults who have a passion and vision for orphans
- 2:16 PM jasonryoung - unleash young people-they are ready for action.
- 2:16 PM jasonryoung - if possible, take them near an orphan
- 2:16 PM jasonryoung - eye to eye and knee to knee with an orphan
- 2:20 PM jasonryoung - we re never closer to the heart of God until we love those that provide nothing in return
- 2:25 PM jasonryoung - let the things that break the heart of God break our hearts
- 2:27 PM jasonryoung - orphans are being loved, rescued, and given permanent homes. however, there are many more to be love, rescued, and provided permanency.
- 2:39 PM jasonryoung - rob mitchell, a former orphan, is about to speak
- 2:40 PM jasonryoung - he just got up to speak with zero expression and said i am excited to be here-i laughed because it was funny
- 2:43 PM jasonryoung - listening to a captivating story about how rob was orphaned
- 2:45 PM jasonryoung - he wrote the book cast-away kid
- 2:51 PM jasonryoung - orphans often think it’s their fault because of their current circumstances
- 2:53 PM jasonryoung - orphans ask who will rescue me?
- 2:54 PM jasonryoung - for orphans, they often hate the night time because that’s where the nightmares and pain re-surfaces
- 2:54 PM jasonryoung - for many orphans, hope has died
- 2:57 PM jasonryoung - 100,000,000 households in america-if 0.1 of the households adopted there would be no more orphans in america
- 2:57 PM jasonryoung - there are about 143,000,000 worldwide orphans
- 3:00 PM jasonryoung - orphans adopted-not born of our womb but of our heart
- 3:01 PM jasonryoung - orphans want to be rescued
- 3:02 PM jasonryoung - orphans stay in guest mode all the time because they don’t really have permanency
- 3:08 PM jasonryoung - he is talking about how mentors changed his life. they loved that somebody remembered their name. the mentors would simply take them along to do everyday things.
- 3:10 PM jasonryoung - he is challenging men right now to become mentors
- 3:10 PM jasonryoung - love is a four letter word-TIME-orphans want your time
- 3:11 PM jasonryoung - mentors keep children from being invisible
- 3:22 PM jasonryoung - what if you and me could enter the nightmare of an orphan’s mind and heart to be God’s love and to rescue them?
- 3:25 PM jasonryoung - today…how are you being called? to be a foster parent? to adopt? to mentor? how are you being called? the voice of the abandoned all over the world is praying and desperately that you are listening and that you will act soon.
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