The mission of EMBRACE is to build families through the miracle of adoption and by showing God’s love to the world’s orphans and waiting children. Our desire is to take part in authentic relationships in the lives of the fatherless by sharing our resources and skills to improve their quality of life and to minister to their physical, emotional, and spiritual needs.
“Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.” – James 1:27
“I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.” – John 14.18
“A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling. God sets the lonely in families.” – Psalm 68:5-6
143,000,000 Orphans & Waiting Children
Yes, it is a big number. However, you can make a difference by embracing just one.
EMBRACE is a ministry of Living Stones Community Church dedicated to the fatherless. The purpose of EMBRACE is to build families through the miracle of adoption and to show God’s love to the world’s orphans and waiting children. Our desire is to develop authentic relationships with the fatherless by sharing our resources and skills to improve their quality of life and to minister to their physical, emotional, and spiritual needs.
EMBRACE exists to…
Educate the church regarding God’s heart for orphans and waiting children;
Encourage the church to provide for the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of orphans; and
Equip families that respond to God’s call to adopt or foster through support before, during and after that process.
“God gave the responsibility to care for the defenseless to those claiming to be followers of Christ. It is through our hands the Father’s love comes, it is through our voices His voice is heard, it is through our efforts and those of the church that his care is revealed to the ones the rest of the world has forgotten.” – C. Thomas Davis, Fields of the Fatherless