COLORADO CHILDREN NEED YOUR HELP!

SEEK JUSTICE.

HELP THE OPPRESSED.
DEFEND THE ORPHAN.

ISAIAH 1:17

Raising Awareness About The Needs of Children and Orphans.

Providing "Basics & Backpacks" to Children and Orphans

COLORADO CHILDREN NEED YOUR HELP!

Each month in one Colorado county alone 50 children will go from their home into foster care. There are 64 counties in Colorado. Each of these dear children typically has nothing to call their own during this abrupt and traumatic move from their home to foster care. "Basics and Backpacks" consist of the following NEW items; backpack, underwear, pajamas, socks, pants, towel/washcloth, t-shirts, sweats and a reminder that each child is loved in the form of a stuffed animal, toy, or a book; contingent upon the age of the child.

Isaiah's Cry currently collaborates with three Colorado counties that need immediate assistance. Recently three more counties have asked for assistance or additional information to help the children in their counties. One county is almost completely out of resources to provide for children going from their home to foster care. There is an immediate need for (50) fifty "Basics and Backpacks" to serve the children of this county for the next 30 days and every month thereafter. You can help give emergency assistance, love, dignity, and hope to each child during a very traumatic and unpredictable time in his or her life. It is a profound way to impact children's lives that will be remembered. A greater blessing would be to provide 600 "Basics and Backpacks" for this county for the whole year! From July 1, 2008 to June 30, 2009, 12,342 Children in Colorado were placed in out of home care. During that same time, the Number of Children in Foster/Group Homes was 6,236.

WE NEED YOUR HELPF TO GIVE LOVE AND HOPE.
HERE ARE SOME THINGS YOU CAN DO....

 Pray.

 Donate today.
 Buy a backpack.
 Buy a basic or some basics for a specific age and gender child.
 Fill a backpack.
 Do a collection drive or fundraiser at your school, work, or community of faith.

Items And Estimated Cost For One Child's NEW "Basics and Backpack"
Item                        Size 0-4 T    Child Size 4-14    Adult Size 4-20
Backpack               $ 15.00         $ 15.00               $ 15.00
Washcloth/Towel    $   5.00         $   5.00               $   5.00
Pajama's                 $ 15.00         $ 15.00               $ 20.00
Socks                     $   1.00         $   2.00               $   5.00
Sweats                   $ 15.00         $ 20.00               $ 20.00
T- Shirt                  $   8.00         $ 10.00               $ 10.00
Pants                     $ 12.00         $ 15.00                $ 18.00
Underwear            $   2.00         $   3.00                $   3.00
Total                     $ 73.00         $ 85.00                $ 96.00
Buying at discount stores or on sale can lower amount.

Write checks to "Wellspring Church" with Isaiah's Cry Children/Orphan Outreach in the memo line. Contact us and we will arrange for pick up of items or funds and we will distribute to a child in need. From our broken yet hopeful hearts, thank you for helping these precious children! Only with your help can we give each child love, hope, and dignity that each deserves!

This is the beginning of the vision we have to serve each child going into foster care in Colorado by the end of 2010!

WON'T YOU JOIN US TO GIVE THESE CHILDREN HOPE?
Contact us at: paulwilliams@isaiahscry.org; 720-690-0892, jodywilliams@isaiahscry.org; 720-629-1645, or Margaret-ann@isaiahscry.org. For more information visit: http://paulewilliams.blogspot.com or www.isaiahscry.org

A Man with Credibility - Worth Hearing and Seeing - Tom Davis

I recently posted an event on facebook that Tom is speaking at in Englewood, Colorado. He is going to be teaching at Wellspring Anglican Church in Englewood, Colorado on November 22nd at the 0900 AM & 1035 AM services. As a prelude, see and hear a bit of his passion with this TV interview about his novel,  "Scared: A Novel On The Edge Of The World"... Tom Davis TV Interview.You will be blessed and challenged!
Serving Children and Orphans Together;
Paul
paulwilliams@isaiahscry.org

Working And Playing In The Kingdom: Leaves, And Space, And Territory

My wife Jody related an interaction to me that the children had a while ago. They were playing in and raking the leaves in the front yard. We have a tree in the front yard that has a huge amount of leaves on it each year. It dominates our front yard. It is so big and beautiful in all seasons, especially autumn. There is an abundance of leaves on the tree and plenty of space to play when the leaves fall on the ground. She described to me that the children were outside playing, "working", and ultimately fighting about whose leaves were whose and what space in the yard was theirs to rake, play, and work in.

Immediately after Jody related this scene to me I thought, "How silly of them to fight about leaves and space, and territory. There are plenty of leaves. There is plenty of space to play. There is plenty of 'work' and play to be done and there are plenty of leaves." I thought to myself, "Why can't my children just see that there is plenty?"

Next, I thought about how often I have done the same thing that the children did with the leaves. I think about how easy it is to fight about which things are "mine" and "yours" even though there may be an abundance of things like "leaves" to play and work with.

Translating this to the work on behalf of children and orphans, I want to do the exact opposite of what I heard my children doing. I do not want to "fight about the leaves, or the space, or whose territory is whose, or whose resources are whose." I want to work and play in the Kingdom God has made us to work and play in. God owns enough space, territory, and resources. Gods word says in Psalm 50 that, "every animal of the forest is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills. I know every bird in the mountains, and the creatures of the field are mine." Wow, God owns it all! He has no need for us to fight over His resources. There is plenty!

We should operate with this forefront in our minds when working on behalf of children and orphans. We should speak with anyone who will listen about the needs of children and orphans. We should want to work with anyone who is working with and on behalf of children and orphans. We should be grateful for the resources, people and everything we have been given to do the work we are supposed to do on behalf of children and orphans.

Are there are guidelines and principles that we should follow and work with people and organizations that follow closely to the same guidelines? We should not let subtle differences or non-essentials get in the way of serving children and orphans. We cannot let it be so to get in the way! To that end, my prayer and hope is that we will be willing to "work and play" together for the benefit of children and orphans. Our agendas and personal desires should be set aside if they interfere with the desired outcomes, to give dignity, life, love and hope to all children and orphans, by providing each with food, water, clothing, medical care, safe shelter, education, family, and an opportunity to know Him who created and owns it all. These are principles that we should live by in all that we do. May it be so with all of us! May it be so this day and always! There is much to do to demonstrate His great Love for us and especially the most vulnerable, children and orphans! Let's get to it!