Orphans

[close] Discussion forum and book club for teens who want to get involved in orphan care. Primarily intended for for those with a Christian worldview and a desire to live out James 1:27.

[close] Jefferson Smith will be on-hand to monitor and respond to questions through to the end of August. (July 28, 2011 to August 31, 2011) There are three things that make this author different from others - and particularly interesting to get into discussions with. First, in addition to being a writer, he is also a scientist who studies the creative process and how computers can help (or hinder) creativity when people are trying to write fiction, compose music or paint digitally. Second, he used to work in Hollywood on animation and special effects films. If you've seen movies like Jurassic Park, Lion King, Aladdin, Terminator 2, etc., you've seen his work - and he brings much of what he learned there about creativity and adventure telling to his writing. Finally, this is an author who likes working with teens so much that he actually includes hundreds of them in his writing process - workshopping stories, characters, language and attitude with high-school kids across the Canadian prairies - both in the classroom and in workshop settings.

[close] In an alternate dimension there's a small town full of children nobody knows how they got there or where they came from their just there. With no one to take care of them. You can be one of them or create a character to take care of them. There are a few children already up for adoption.

[close] What if you found a world? It is a world that was completely hidden from normal people. What if you found that you were never a so called normal person. What if you were different from all the others? Many teens and younger adults have been finding that they seem that they do not belong, nor do they fit in with normal society. Strange things happen around them. They are changing in ways that most people do not. Some may say that they are…freaks…abominations…..or even maybe they have been called aliens before. But, in the world that is hidden from normals, people like them….are considered regular people. Strange things happen in this world though. There are monsters and many different species of creatures. Maybe even some new looking plants… It is all new to us all. Most of the people who have started to feel the changes that are happening to them were not originally from this world. So that means they had no parents on Earth. So they were all raised in orphanages. Some may have run away, some may have been adopted and some were just left alone. But they all are going to need to return to their original world. Because with the way they are changing, the will not be able to fit in any longer.