Roe V Wade turns 37

If you would like the Christian answer to Newsweek or Time, then World Magazine is for you. It's a bi-weekly magazine that I unfortunately can never read cover to cover (just for lack of time), but it is so good. It's where I get my news, and it's where I find most of my favorite books (i.e. Adopted for Life by Russell D Moore).
In honor (or dishonor?) of Roe V Wade, World did an article about adoption! Woohoo!
http://www.worldmag.com/articles/16304 for those of you who would like to read it for yourselves.
For those of you like me and would just like the high points, I will list the twenty ways to become an adoption friendly church. And then I will pray that you will pray about what your part might be.

1. Pray that you and your church would become adoption friendly.
2. Preach key passages on caring for orphans and spiritual adoption.
3. Invite guest speakers to raise awareness of adoption needs and opportunities.
4. Make adoption resources available to the church family.
5. Frequently list pro-adoption ministries and organizations.
6. Encourage couples facing infertility to connect with adoptive parents (Please, email me anytime!).
7. Regularly have adoptive parents and birth mothers share their testimony of God's goodness and grace (I have quite a list here).
8. Educate your church family regarding the costs involved in the adoption process.
9. Encourage the church family to give financially to adoptive couples (Amen!).
10. Create a standing church fund for adoption costs. (Interestingly enough, I have a website!http://lifesongfororphans.org/)
11. Challenge Sunday school classes and small groups to raise money for adoptive couples (Amen again!).
12. Establish an Adoptive Parents small group in your church (we are doing that now at our church!).
13. Create email list-serves of adoptive parents for support and encouragement.
14. Connect with local social service agencies.
15. Use attorneys or case workers within the church family.
16. Sponser a child.
17. Participate in mission trips to orphanages abroad.
18. Maximize special holidays to emphasize adoption.
19. Celebrate adoption as a church family.
20. Support adopted kids as they struggle with questions of identity, abandonment, or rejection.

I have a calling to be a wife and mother. I also have a calling to work in physical therapy. Maybe another calling for me is to spread the good news about adoption. I will be praying that the Lord would use me in any way.