Caring for America”s Orphans
By Brian Mavis It began for my wife and me with a simple nighttime prayer with our young daughters: “God, take care of the orphans.” We always imagined kids in Africa when we prayed that, and eventually we sponsored a couple of kids from Kenya. But that prayer kept doing its work on us, and it led to an obvious question for us: “Are there orphans in America?” Â Orphans in America? Surely there were some, a child here or there who had lost her parents. But if God wanted to use us to help answer that prayer and to
