Elikia is an aid organization that rebuilds communities providing new land, homes, schools, clinics and community centres
for widows and orphans displaced by the country's civil war.
About Blog Heather's mission in making cards is to support the building of houses
for widows and orphans in Burundi, Africa through a ministry called Sister Connection.
Watch out
for widows and orphans in your text.
Furthermore, it is willing to sacrifice massive resources to that «cause» while having little regard
for widows and orphans, especially the 1 billion extreme poor in developing countries.
So secure that they are often said to be appropriate
for widows and orphans.
Standing up
for Widows and Orphans in Kenya.
These are not the people sending money to Rebbe Eckstein to care
for the widows and orphans, for the hungry and poorly clothed.
But I think overall, James agrees with our Lord, «Pure religion is this: to care
for the widows and the orphans, and keep oneself unspotted from the world.»
They will follow in the tradition of the Hebrew prophets: feeding the poor, caring
for widows and orphans, attacking economic systems that produce injustice.
With regard to others, it is our duty to cultivate within ourselves respect for the sacred and to show the face of the revealed God — the God who has compassion for the poor and the weak,
for widows and orphans, for the foreigner; the God who is so human that he himself became man, a man who suffered, and who by his suffering with us gave dignity and hope to our pain.
Mining securities are not the thing
for widows and orphans or country clergymen, or unworldly people of any kind to own.
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and
for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and a lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
Above that tableau, the soaring words of the martyred president ring out: «to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and
for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace.»
God's special concern is not for the mighty and the successful, but for the lowly and the downtrodden, for the stranger and the poor,
for the widow and the orphan.»
On the other hand we have seen a great (and more successful) national leader say, while war still raged: «With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and
for his widow and his orphan — to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.»
In the first two chapters of the letter, James points out instances of hypocrisy When we say we have faith but do not care
for the widow and orphan, what kind of faith are we confessing?
For each toy sold, WO provides two meals
for widows and orphaned children.
Not exact matches
While innovation should always be encouraged, Bitcoin isn't yet fit as a place
for orphans and widows to shelter their nest eggs — although there are admittedly plenty of gold bugs who would say the same about fiat currencies.
Utility stocks were once considered investments
for «
widows and orphans» because they provided a safe, steady,
and growing dividend income with good prospects
for capital appreciation.
It was Christ who encouraged the fair treatment of women... God who commands us not to neglect the poor
and to feed
orphans and widows... God who insisted that field owners leave part of the crop behind to be picked up by hungry gleaners... God who said men should not take advantage of one another by charging interest... Christ who attacked the Pharisees
for their rigid thinking
and superiority complex toward Samaritans... How are my values inconsistent with the teachings
and actions of God?
Are we talking about running coffee - houses, making sanitary napkins
for the third world women, looking after
orphans and widows — all of them laudatory efforts?
He gives judgment
for the
orphan and the
widow,
and loves the sojourner, giving him food
and clothing.
According to the Law of Moses, the spiritual leaders were supposed to be taking care of the
widows and orphans in the community,
and providing
for their needs (Deut 26:12).
Christianity is the religion out of which care
and concern
for orphaned children, the
widowed and the sick spread through the Western world.
Because they (attempt to) care
for widows,
orphans, the homeless, the addicted
and spend millions of dollars
and travel thousands of miles to find people who do not any type of access to the gospel
and translate the Bible into their native language, or build schools
and hospitals as well as churches their witness
and their faith is nullified because they (wrongfully) dismiss porn stars
and the people trying to reach them?
Instead of perpetuating a world of violence, Isaiah proposes a vision that demands a reality that requires peacemaking: doing good, seeking justice, rescuing the oppressed, defending the
orphan and pleading
for the
widow.
Instead of perpetuating a world of violence, Isaiah proposes a vision that demands another reality — a reality that requires peacemaking: doing good, seeking justice, rescuing the oppressed, defending the
orphan and pleading
for the
widow.
Oh God of the
widow and orphan, the poor
and distressed, bring forth your justice,
for only you can perfectly judge, recompense
and reunite this riven family of humanity.
By working with their hands, the elders can not only provide
for their own needs without depending on the financial support of others, but also help provide
for the physical needs of those who are unable to work, people like
orphans,
widows,
and the sick, or even those who minister with them, but who are not able to work.
Adoption — I've always been a big fan of adoption,
and considering James» admonition about how true religion in the sight of God is caring
for orphans and widow in their distress, I have always felt that as a Christian I am obligated to either adopt myself or strongly support organizations that make adoption possible.
The Bible itself is lucid on the sin of Sodom: pride, lack of concern
for the poor
and needy (Ezekiel 16:48 - 49); hatred of strangers
and cruelty to guests (Wisdom 19:13); arrogance (Sirach / Ecclesiaticus 16:8); evildoing, injustice, oppression of the
widow and orphan (Isaiah 1:17); adultery (in those days, the use of another man's property),
and lying (Jeremiah 23:12).
Pro-Life relates to many issues: insurance
for those who can not afford, gun control, illegal drug traffic, poverty (homeless, elderly, etc.
widows and orphans)... we are becoming pawns used to dominate the politics of losers who can not justify their candidacy by any other means.
On the way to the shelter, the pastor could lay the biblical groundwork
for why we take care of
orphans and widows,
and provide some special tips
for dealing with battered women.
The general arch of the bible is
for loving, committed, long - term relationships,
for protection of the
orphan,
widow, stranger,
for the love of God
and neighbor as yourself.
The money should be used
for the kinds of things Jesus talks about — helping the
orphans,
widows, poor
and needy.
The description in James puts it best,
and is far from what some online message board posters try to tell me what
and why I believe: «Pure
and genuine religion in the sight of God the Father means caring
for orphans and widows in their distress
and refusing to let the world corrupt you.»
Writing in the Sunday Times, he said: «In the Bible, the hardest - pressed of all poor people were summarised as «
widows and orphans»
for they were the group most at risk
and with least support.
The prophets call
for repentance
and urge a program of justice
and equity that will demonstrate concern
for the poor, the needy, the oppressed, the
widow and the
orphan (Isa.
Some early black congregations began as benevolent societies,
and all of them were concerned
for the welfare of the sick, the
widowed and the
orphaned.
Learn to do good, seek justice, strengthen the robbed, perform justice
for the
orphan,
and plead the case of the
widow.
We urgently need to design pastoral strategies (
and even select the times
for our meetings
and worship services) according to the needs of that great mass of excluded people who form part of non-traditional families: single mothers, families divided by divorce, grandmothers who raise their grandchildren,
widows,
orphans, street children, etc..
If you are looking
for true religion, visit the
widows and orphans.
When you reap your harvest in your field
and forget a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it; it shall be left
for the alien, the
orphan,
and the
widow, so that the Lord your God may bless you in all your undertakings.
While we engage in the never ending silly season
widows and orphans remain unattended to, millions starve
for the bread of life, demons remain uncast out, the lame remain sick, the dead remain unraised.
It does this first by having the patience amid the injustice
and violence of this world to care
for the
widow, the poor,
and the
orphan... it is our conviction that unless we take the time
for such care neither we nor the world can know what justice looks like.
But to the extent that it ignores the finger Lincoln points at the Civil War — to the extent that it forgets the decimation of a generation of young Americans at the beginnings of manhood; to the extent that it forgets the windrows of corpses at Shiloh, the odor of death in the Wilderness, the walking skeletons of Andersonville, 623,000 dead all told, not to mention the interminable list of those crippled,
orphaned,
and widowed whose pensions became the single largest bill paid by the federal government
for the following half - century; to the extent that it ignores how the war cost the United States $ 6.6 billion, rocketed the national debt from $ 65 million to $ 2.7 billion, retarded commodity growth
for the next thirty years,
and devalued its currency — then the call
for reparations opens itself up to a charge of willful forgetfulness so massive that resentment, anger,
and bitterness, rather than justice, will (I fear) be its real legacy.
This means something
for how we care
for orphans and widows and it means something
for how we love refugees.
James writes, «Religion that is pure
and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to care
for orphans and widows in their distress,
and to keep oneself unstained by the world» (James 1:27).
When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, do not glean what is left; it shall be
for the alien, the
orphan,
and the
widow.
ACT Founder
and Director Dr Kunle Onabolu told Premier they «provide education
for children of
widows and orphans in Africa, but also to empower
widows who are poor in rural African community, to provide them with counselling, training
and business skills so they generate income sustainably.»