The numerous advantages of this approach include: an orphan stays in their home environment they receive personal adult-based attention and new social structures are fostered that provide both the widows and the orphans with the safety and security that the family-orientated environment provides. Practically, the above situation implies that a widow opens up her home to care for one or more orphans as part of her own family. Therefore, we choose to help the orphans find a new family and home. Moreover, institutionalisation removes a child from his or her home environment.

However, such institutionalised care is relatively costly, and it is often detrimental to the children concerned who very rarely, under such circumstances, receive the personal attention that they need. info under CC BY 3.Sadly, institutionalised orphanages are still widely seen as being the best form of orphan care. Some scripture references/categories courtesy of Open Bible. If a verse or topic does not belong, please contact us. Topics and verses are auto-generated from user searches. Zechariah 7:9-10 - Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother: (Read More.) And all the people shall say, Amen.ġ Timothy 5:8 - But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

(Read More.)ĭeuteronomy 27:19 - Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. Matthew 6:1-34 - Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven. James 2:1-26 - My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons. (Read More.)ġ Timothy 5:5 - Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day. Hebrews 13:1-25 - Let brotherly love continue. James 2:14-17 - What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him? (Read More.) Psalms 68:5 - A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation. Isaiah 1:17 - Learn to do well seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.ġ Timothy 5:1 - 6:21 - Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father and the younger men as brethren (Read More.)Įxodus 22:21-24 - Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. James 1:27 - Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

Prayer for widows and orphans