Today Is Orphan Sunday

November is National Adoption Awareness Month. This post is part a series about adoption and related issues, from my perspective.

The Christian Alliance for Orphans has declared today—November 8th—“Orphan Sunday”. The CAO was created to spotlight the needs of the more than 130,000 orphans around the world.*

To learn more about the Christian Alliance for Orphans movement, click here.

To learn more about Orphan Sunday events, including a live concert webcast featuring Christian musician (and adoptive father) Steven Curtis Chapman, click here.

I’ll close with a video the CAO has created for the day:

Orphan Sunday from Christian Alliance for Orphans on Vimeo.

(Click here if the video doesn’t show up in your browser.)

*Many organizations cite the 2006 UNICEF number of worldwide orphans of 143,000. But their most recent research—from 2008—puts the number down to 132,000. Regardless, the number is staggering.