Restore Austin believes the best way to work for a lasting change for the orphan and abandoned in our city and around the world is to partner with local and global non-profit organizations who have gone before us, have the experience, and are professionally trained in working with the poor and oppressed for a life of hope, love, renewal and a forever family. There are three different levels of involvement in helping the orphan and abandoned:
- Exposure: Expose yourself to the orphan crisis by educating yourself through recommended resources, local conferences, foster care camps, and staying informed about opportunities made available to you to help advocate for the fatherless.
- Experience: Restore Austin is creating opportunities through our partners to be part of the remedy through monthly projects, monthly sponsorship of orphans, respite care, and much needed weekly mentoring.
- Engage: Restore Austin has several partners that can help you fulfill your dream of becoming an adoptive or foster parent. We truly believer there is no better example that we can set of our own adoption into the family of God, than by adopting those who have been abandoned and left without love.
We believe the the question is not whether or not you should be involved in the orphan crisis, the answer to that is – Yes, we are all called to be involved. The question is, “How are you to be involved?”
Often times the orphan and abandoned crisis seems almost too big to be involved in. Often times the problem seems way to big to impact. That’s simply not true, and while it is large and impacts children and families on a global level, we want help you get involved here and now:
- Restore Austin partners with two international orphan agencies that allow you to sponsor children monthly in India and Africa.
- Restore Austin will be offering bi-annual short term mission trips to two of our orphanages in Meir and Sandoval Mexico.
- Restore Austin has formed a partnership with foster agency, Caring Family Network. Through them we have several opportunities to help raise awareness and help remedy the local foster and orphan issue.
Along with these opportunities, you can continually check the calendar for immediate ways to get involved at www.restore-austin.org and click on the icon ‘calendar’
For the Orphan Network: Restore Austin is partnering with several Austin Churches, local foster agencies, and international adoption agencies for the formation of For the Orphan Network.
Our hope is to ‘knock out’ the orphan problem in Travis county by 2011, along with promoting international adoption, educating the public on the orphan crisis, and working together to restore foster families . This network will focus in the following four arenas:
- Adoption: Domestic and International
- Foster Care: General Foster Care, Foster Adoption, Kids Again Out of Foster Care, and Family Reunification
- Sanctity of Life: General Sanctity of Life and Sanctity of Life to Adoption
- International Orphan Care: General International Orphan Care, Individual Orphan sponsorship, and Orphanage sponsorship
Local partners making an impact for the orphan and abandoned!
- Communities in Schools: Visit their website by clicking HERE. Follow them on twitter by clicking HERE
- Caring Family Network: visit their website by clicking HERE. Follow them on twitter by clicking HERE.
- HELP End Local Poverty: Visit their website by clicking HERE. Follow them on twitter by clicking HERE.
- Caritas Austin: Visit their website by clicking HERE. Follow them on twitter, by clicking HERE.
- Miracle Foundation: Visit their website by clicking HERE.
- AWAA: Visit their website by clicking HERE.
- Show Hope:Visit their website by clicking HERE. Follow them on twitter, by clicking HERE.
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