Family Life’s Hope for Orphans has resources to help your church establish an orphans ministry. They have a goal to help 1000 churches do this by the year 2010. Here are some orphan ministry ideas that your church may want to get involved in:
- pray for orphans waiting to be adopted
- start an adoption assistance fund
- provide financial support and humanitarian aid to an orphanage
- have fund raisers to support Christian orphan organizations
- make and send items to orphans
- hold an orphan gift fair
- have a baby shower to collect items for orphans
- recruit adoptive families
- hold adoption workshops
- get involved in the foster care system and mentoring
- support pregnancy care centers
- take members on mission trips to orphanages
- sponsor an orphan and raise money for orphans in the children’s church
