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Charity Bell is a graduate student who is also a foster parent. When she began volunteering at a local hospital she met a two-year-old girl, who she says, "clung to me for four nights in a row." Charity was shocked to discover that the girl was a foster child stuck at the hospital because there were not enough homes to meet the need. It was then that Charity decided to become a foster parent, which involved a ten-week training program.
In the last four years Charity has been a foster mother to 38 children. Typically she cares for a child anywhere from a few days to a couple of months before permanent placement. Most of the babies are either abandoned or abused. "They cry, you pick them up," Charity reflects, "you lock eyes with them, and you fall in love. It's incredible," she adds. She learned that being loved during the first months of life make a huge difference to the...
This Sermon Illustration is based on Isaiah 65:17-25 and relates to Proper 28 | Ordinary Time 33 of Cycle C of the lectionary. This Sermon Illustration on Isaiah 65:17-25 is just one of over 15,000 Sermon Illustrations at SermonSuite.com. SermonSuite also offers online sermons and professionally published sermons, lectionary sermons, non-lectionary sermons, sermon illustrations, worship resources, preaching resources, sermons on prayer, prayers, Christian drama, lectionary worship, lectionary workbooks and homilies. ...
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