I don't know how many of you caught the presidential candidates being interviewed by Rick Warren. I personally didn't have the time to sit down and watch it for two hours (I was watching the Olympics).
But I heard afterwards that Rick Warren asked both of them to consider making the orphan crisis their big social contribution to the world, Like Bush made AIDS in Africa his.Rick Warren states that there are 148 orphaned children in the world and asks what their solutions might be.
McCain (who has an adopted daughter) says he'd like to make adoptions more possible for Americans. While this is a great solution for the individual children being adopted there are 148 million children in need and only 110 million households in America! Adoption cannot be the only solution.
Rick Warren correctly states that orphanages and institutions are not the best place for orphans to be raised that families are. Orphanages cannot be the only solution.
Casa Viva is creating an alternative solution to orphanages and institutions that empowers national churches to be a solution for orphans in their own country. I am excited to be a part of this alternative solution to the 148 million orphans in the world.
