GROWing Non-Stop

Our group began meeting together in the fall of 2013 as a GROW Group searching for God's call on our lives for the orphan. As part of that process we learned all we could learn about what the Bible has to say about caring for the orphan and the fatherless. We spent extended time in gatherings contemplating what James 1:27 should mean to us as Christians wanting to live "true religion."

"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 NIV).

We had completed our scheduled number of gatherings, but we felt that since we now knew what the Bible says about caring for the orphan, we could not turn our backs on "the least of these" and go back to our comfortable American lives. We have met regularly since. The GROW group has grown into a full-time ministry: God's Hands 4 Kids. We have sought to learn and seek God's will for us as a group, individually, as families and as the church. We have shared what we have learned. We have recruited foster families, done drives and volunteered with the Berrien County Department of Health Human Services (DHHS). We have learned and shared and prayed.

by Carol Jordan, God's Hands 4 Kids Founder