Graduation

Graduation. Most of us think of graduation as a positive event. Finishing high school or college. New adventures. A new start.

Today I read of a different kind of graduation.

Imagine you are16 years old. You live in an orphanage in Eastern Europe. You live with your friends and the people paid to work at the orphanage. You don't have any family at all, or you may have some relatives, but none that can care for you.This place where you live is all you know and everything that you have. It is May and graduation is approaching.

You are in the oldest group of children. In a matter of weeks you will be turned out with the clothes on your back. You are old enough to take care of yourself now. What will you do? Where will you go? It is hard enough for anyone of any age to find work in your country. It will be harder for you. Everyone will know where you grew up and they will look down on you for it.

Your whole life will become about survival. Finding food. Keeping warm. Keeping safe.

Today I read about this graduation  here on The Bible Orphan Ministry's blog. They have a heart for these children. They know them. They know what will happen to them. They want to help, but they need resources in order to help.

We are all able to help a little. The Lord can take our little and make it into more than enough. That is the idea behind the iPad 2 Giveaway that my friends are doing. It is to raise money and awareness for Teri Lynn and The Bible Orphan Ministry. The money raised for the Bible Orphan Ministry will go directly to help them with their project to help meet the basic needs of these "graduates".

Please pray for the "graduates" and for the ministry team that is trying to help them.