Welcome to the Orphans’ Matchbox!
Welcome to Orphans’ Matchbox, the blog of the Christian Alliance for Orphans. We offer it as not much more than a few loaves and a couple dried fish. But God has a way of multiplying such things.
The truth is, from San Francisco to Chattanooga to Boston and countless little towns and cities in the middle, we’re seeing something happening…something that makes for a bit of a tingle at the roots of your hair.
People in home churches and mega-churches and everything in-between are asking what it means to truly “defend the cause of the fatherless.” They want to know how they can really “visit orphans in their distress.” They desire to join the faithful veterans who’ve long served in the fields of the fatherless, to attend to Christ in the body of an orphan, to make the Gospel visible to a watching world.
This blog seeks to help build the community that is already forming amidst this movement. Alongside some reflections of our own, it will carry voices from some of the great thinkers and doers at its center. We desire to stir thought and discussion, prayer and even some healthy differences. We desire to spur exchange of good ideas, great questions and new friendships.
Most of all, we desire to ignite hearts to burn with the fire of God’s heart for the orphan. But, of course, He beat us here. It’s clear He’s been piling tinder for a bonfire long before the thought crossed our mind. We just get to be a match.
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It is exciting to see and be a part of God’s plan for His children. I am in awe of how God has changed my life through adoption.
Thank you for this opportunity to share how God is speaking to those called to “defend the cause of the fatherless.” May this blog be a place of refuge when resistance is felt and may it be a place to rejoice when God moves mountains.
I’m so excited for your new blog! Congratulations! I’m looking forward to thought and heart provoking topics and conversations! Most importantly, here’s to advancing the cause of these precious little ones in Jesus’ name!
Thanks Jedd and Elizabeth for making this come to life and I pray that God will use this tool as a demonstration of His reality as the Church increasingly becomes the body of Christ in loving orphans.
Paul Pennington
Hope for Orphans
It’s great to see believers coming together for the cause of the fatherless. I know we can do this better together than we can alone!
Thanks for your heart for uniting us together! The “Blog World” is an amazing tool for educating, inspiring and bringing our passions together for the orphans!
A CAFO Blog! How Exciting! Great idea! I look forward to coming back daily to glean from this blog. Thanks for doing this! God bless!
Delighted to have your voice, mind and heart in the conversation, Jedd! You are doing a great work!
Amazing what God can do when a little spark is lit. I look forward to the sharing of information and seeing the fire ignite for all of Gods children.
I’d be interested to “talk” with anyone doing orphan work in Ukraine.
Ephesians 1:6-14 explains that we are adopted into God our Father’s family. We “belong”, we have an “inheritance” and an “Identity. When an orphan is adopted they also belong to a family, have and inheritance and an identity. I thank the Lord that the saints are opening their hearts and homes to the orpans.
DeeannaMarie Wallace
HOPE INC, Inc.
Hawaii