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“The gospel doesn’t erase our past, but it drastically changes our future with a living hope. The gospel gives us the opportunity to be healed and to know God as our Abba Father. With our adoption into God’s family comes a radically new life.”
― Johnny Carr, Orphan Justice: How to Care for Orphans Beyond Adopting

“Orphan care is not about us; it’s about them.”
― Johnny Carr, Orphan Justice: How to Care for Orphans Beyond Adopting

“Pure and genuine religion in the sight of God the Father means caring for orphans and widows in their distress and refusing to let the world corrupt you” (NLT).”
― Johnny Carr, Orphan Justice: How to Care for Orphans Beyond Adopting

“the International Labour Organization estimated that in 2012 there were 20.9 million people in forced labor worldwide, and 26 percent of those slaves were children.1 The number is roughly equivalent to the number of Africans in slavery during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.”
― Johnny Carr, Orphan Justice: How to Care for Orphans Beyond Adopting

“We need “Orphan-focused Sundays,” but we also need far more—we need orphan-focused churches. Choosing to stand by and do nothing where we see injustice, suffering, and evil is wrong. It is sin. We must take active steps to care for orphans. To do anything less is blatant disobedience.”
― Johnny Carr, Orphan Justice: How to Care for Orphans Beyond Adopting

“If Roe v. Wade is ever overturned, the foster care system will likely be flooded with special needs cases. Will we, as God’s people, be prepared to take care of the children who were not aborted, but then abandoned? If we claim to be “pro-life,” we must be willing to take an honest look at our attitudes toward children with disabilities. We must be honest with ourselves about how the church has handled and in some cases even mishandled this issue.”
― Johnny Carr, Orphan Justice: How to Care for Orphans Beyond Adopting

“God made the family for children. He never intended for the growth, nurturing, and development of childhood to happen in an institution.”
― Johnny Carr, Orphan Justice: How to Care for Orphans Beyond Adopting

“And it’s not just a command; it’s a privilege.”
― Johnny Carr, Orphan Justice: How to Care for Orphans Beyond Adopting

“According to UNICEF, 153 million kids worldwide have lost one or both parents due to all causes.1 That’s twice the total number of children in the U.S.2”
― Johnny Carr, Orphan Justice: How to Care for Orphans Beyond Adopting

“Eventually, the role of the orphanage as a long-term residence for children can be eliminated. This should ultimately be our goal. How my heart longs for the day when churches celebrate one more orphanage being closed because all of its children are placed in families, rather than reporting on one more orphanage being built on a short-term mission trip.”
― Johnny Carr, Orphan Justice: How to Care for Orphans Beyond Adopting

“Sally is going to be in the foster system for those six months whether she is in your home or not.”
― Johnny Carr, Orphan Justice: How to Care for Orphans Beyond Adopting

“A “poor = lazy” mindset blinds us to the needs of vulnerable children. These kids did not choose poverty, but they live in it every day, and many have no hope of getting out of it. If we claim to care about orphaned and vulnerable children, we can’t dismiss the poverty that is rampant both on the other side of the world and at our doorstep.”
― Johnny Carr, Orphan Justice: How to Care for Orphans Beyond Adopting

“Foster care can be one of the most challenging, yet rewarding, experiences you will ever encounter. To welcome forgotten kids into your home and love them as your own children showcases the heart of Jesus in a powerful way.”
― Johnny Carr, Orphan Justice: How to Care for Orphans Beyond Adopting

“If we are committed to fighting against abortion, we should be just as passionately fighting for adoption and orphan care to place vulnerable children in families both in the U.S. and around the world.”
― Johnny Carr, Orphan Justice: How to Care for Orphans Beyond Adopting

“To our God, taking care of orphans isn’t just a “great idea.” It’s critical. Why? Because every man, woman, boy, and girl—including orphaned and vulnerable children—has been created in God’s image and is precious to Him.”
― Johnny Carr, Orphan Justice: How to Care for Orphans Beyond Adopting

“It is not as if I—or the church as a whole—was hard-hearted and didn’t care about the plight of orphans. I simply did not know the enormity of the problems. No one had seriously engaged the issue of orphan care in any of the churches or schools I attended. But in this case, ignorance is not bliss. Millions of kids around the world are hurting in ways we cannot imagine, and we are called to respond with compassionate care.”
― Johnny Carr, Orphan Justice: How to Care for Orphans Beyond Adopting

“Kids from loving, stable homes, with a bed to sleep in at night and food on the table, look at the world and see fun, adventure, and opportunity. But children whose daily reality is hunger, abuse, and neglect look at the same world and see threats, danger, abandonment, and hopelessness.”
― Johnny Carr, Orphan Justice: How to Care for Orphans Beyond Adopting

“If we have the means and the capability to care for orphaned and vulnerable children, yet fail to do so, we are in direct disobedience to God.”
― Johnny Carr, Orphan Justice: How to Care for Orphans Beyond Adopting