Mission and Vision
A Ministry of Calvary Baptist Church, Show Low Arizona
Mission
The mission of Just Love Them Ministries is to inspire, equip, and engage the body of Christ through the Church to bring orphans into a Christ-centered family structure and to encourage the provision and support for widows in need.
Goals
Just Love Them Ministries will:
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Reach out to show love through physical and emotional support for orphans and widows as encouraged by the Bible.
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Bring orphans into Christian homes to be raised in a Godly environment with a committed mother and father.
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Inform and communicate the importance of adoption in God's eyes to the church body and Christians in general.
Time Oriented Goals
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Short-Term: To provide encouragement, direction, advice, and no-interest loans and matching grants for 3 adoptions by the end of 2010.
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Mid-Term: To create an environment in our church that fosters and encourages a desire to reach out to orphans and widows through giving, short term missions trips, personal connections, and adoption.
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Long-Term: It is our long-term vision to have Calvary Baptist Church partner with an indigenous organization to create an orphanage staffed by widows and maintained by CBC members with the express purpose of providing a temporary Christian way-point for orphans before they are adopted into Christian homes.
Biblical Justification
God gives us the model of adoption by adopting us to be His sons and daughters.
He predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will Ephesians 1:5
God is the Father to the fatherless and protector of widows – and He gives homes to those who have no family.
Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation. God settles the solitary in a home; Psalm 68:5-6
God defines pure religion as care for orphans and widows
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world. James 1:27