Orphans and Widows Sunday falls this year on Nov. 12, but helping these special people in our churches and communities shouldn’t be limited to one day a year.
Churches in Alabama and beyond are urged to observe Orphans and Widows Sunday on Nov. 12, recommitting to the task of caring for children in distress through foster care, adoption and other means.
The world is a “crazy, awful” place, says Dawn Charette, volunteer advocate at Women’s Care Medical Center, which is why she believes every appointment at WCMC is a divine appointment.
Speaking in Birmingham, pastor and author Tony Evans said of the U.S., “We continue to suffer from the wounds of division and calamity and crisis, racial animus (and) negative political discord that is often bred along racial lines.”
Madison Gardner’s personal experience with miscarriage inspired her to start In His Hands, a pregnancy loss support group at Women’s Resource Center in Mobile.