Feb
06
2010
Orphan Care: Zeal + Knowledge Required
Jedd Medefind—President of the Christian Alliance for Orphans, former Special Assistant to President George W. Bush and leader of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives—has an article in CT on what we can learn from the arrest of several American Christians who were trying to take orphans out of Haiti. Here’s his main point: “Fellow Christians embarrassed by the incident should have the grace to withhold the abuse many observers are now piling on the group, but we can still take a strong lesson on the need to match zeal with knowledge in every effort to ‘care for orphans in their distress.’”