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The tragedy of the earthquakes that have hit Haiti and left many children orphaned as been overwhelming. Several days ago Indianapolis received news that it may have the opportunity to care for or even adopt 300 of these Haitian children. Within minutes there were over a thousand in the Indianapolis area requesting to care for or adopt these children. That kind of a response is encouraging. That compassion is lifting.
As I was checking back into the possibility of these children arriving in Indianapolis I discovered that the government red tape may hold things up for quite some time. But at the end of an article from WISHTV I was hit by the closing sentences:
He says many bureaucratic hurdles must be cleared before any Haitian orphans are flown to 
Indiana. Might it still happen? Perhaps. But he says it’s unlikely to be soon. But the Director of the Indiana Department of Child Services says there are still many opportunities for Hoosiers to help a child.
“We have 250 children today who are adoptable – who are ready and waiting for a family to step forward and adopt them,” he said.
250 Children that have been sitting right here in Indiana all this time, that have had a need that has not seen a response. Sometimes we need tragedy to open our eyes, and our desire should be to help. Many tragedies happen half way around the world, and this does not mean that if we have opportunity that would should not help, but they can also be a a challenge for us to question whether we are responding to needs that God has placed right in our own community? We won’t all be able to adopt, but we are all called as Christians to show the love of Christ. Are we looking for ways to express that in our own communities?
Matthew 10:42
42 And whoever gives one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because he is a disciple, truly, I say to you, he will by no means lose his reward.”
(The pictures in the article are of children in Indiana waiting to be adopted)
