Pages: Change for Orphans!

Our Change for Orphans project has come to a close. Though that doesn’t mean any of you have to stop what you are doing.

At the beginning of April we invited as many as felt the Lord leading, to save up their loose change for orphans. Our project officially ended on August first and our grand total came to… (drum roll please.)

$77.11!!!

I’m so excited for the orphans and adoptive families that will be helped with this money.

It’s amazing how much change can become when every cent is added together. Just like the body of Christ, every little piece is so very important.

One afternoon I went to visit a dear friend of my and after settling ourselves down she brought over a large sandwich bag full of change. She shared how she had heard about our Change for Orphans project and she and her husband wanted to give us their change.

I was deeply touched. I’m sure they could easily use every penny they have, but still they wanted to give.

I know my friend and her husband well and I know they are far too humble to say they have done anything noteworthy. But every life matters.

Here at Pages for the Dark Horses we focus on the “one.” We see orphans as individual treasures and not massive numbers. We see adoptive families as one family and not overall statistics. And we see you as one, not some invisible crowd that passes through our site.

You may not have one cent to give, but you have something to give that no one else can. You have something that someone desperately needs. You were put here for a reason, to give the gift of yourself. And whether that seems big or small in your eyes, it’s important. Someone needs you, someone needs your life. I am not of the knowledge to say for who or where, but I know the Lord doesn’t make mistakes.

In the body of Christ we all need each other. We all need each other to be doing the thing that we were made to do.

I believe that the Lord has a plan for each and every orphan that we advocate for on this site. I don’t get to see their whole lives unfold. (as much as I would like to.) But I am honored that I get to be a part of it even if for just a moment. Because I need them. We need them for the gift they have to give, as a part of the body.

but by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may supply their lack, that their abundance also may supply your lack--that there may be equality.

2 Corinthians 8:14