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Merry Christmas

Dear Friends-

Christmas is here and we find ourselves reflecting on the

blessings of the season. God has indeed been gracious to all of

us this year. We are reminded of His mercies every time we look

at Kristina. This month marks two years since God placed her in

our family through the miracle of adoption.

Orphan ministry and adoption have been part of our daily livesthroughout 2009. Your donations have been used to further the

work of missionaries ministering to orphans on a daily basis in the

field and several children have found their places in covenant

Christian homes because of your generosity. These eternal

investments will not go unnoticed by the Father who has a

particular love for the orphan and seeks to place them in

families. It is indeed a privilege to minister unto these little ones.

Throughout the year, we have been contacted by families

seeking direction on the adoption process, advice on how to

raise the funds necessary to complete adoptions, and prayer

partners to walk through the process with them. We have been

encouraged as God has opened the eyes and hearts of His

people around us. It is our hope that you will continue to

remember us in your prayers and offerings as we seek to meet

the needs of orphans seeking families and the families seeking

to change those childrens names from orphan to beloved

son and precious daughter in 2010.

-Robert, Leslie, Samuel, Nathanael,

Kristina, Hannah, and Joshua Landrum

Happy holidays from our family to yours!

God makes a

home for the lonely;

He leads out the

prisoners into

prosperity. . .

-Psalm 68:6

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The Landrum Five

Newsletter

Highlights

Christmas Greetings

The Call to Orphan

Ministry

January Ukraine

Mission Trip

Another Adoption?

Christmas 2009 Volume 1, Issue 1 WorldView Ministries (407) 970-7181

Kristina on her 14th birthday.


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Am I Called to do Orphan Ministry?

As I write this news letter on Christmas Day with my family all around me, my heart aches for

the orphan who does not know the meaning of Christmas and indeed will not have a Christmas

today. Who is the orphan? I am a former orphan. If you are a Christian, you were once an

orphan. To be fatherless is to be an orphan. To be without God is to be an orphan. Let us

remember what the Lord has done for us and plead the cause of the orphan. If God is not your

father realize your desperate condition and make as much haste as possible to enter into a familial

relationship with God who is an eager and awaiting father, willing to adopt as sons and daughtersall who come to Him by faith.

Is orphan ministry a command or a calling? A cursory reading of the passages in the Bible

regarding orphan ministry leaves no doubt that God has the utmost concern for orphans and is well

pleased with those who minister to the orphan. But is orphan ministry a specific calling or even

optional for those who bear the name of Christ? Based on James 1:27, I dare say that orphan

ministry is not a choice or special calling but is a divine mandate to all. This epistle is meant to be

read to all churches. God places orphan ministry in the category of true religion and as such is the

equivalent to holiness itself. Our sanctification is contingent on orphan ministry!

Adoption is the quintessential doctrine of the Christian faith and when practiced can, in a

certain sense, be considered the epitome of missions both domestic and foreign. Adoption

pictures the whole story of redemption: how we were in need of a loving family, how we were

utterly helpless being without a father to care and provide for us, to teach us, lead us in

righteousness, and protect us and how we were brought into a covenantal relationship with him.

We need to rectify a great inconsistency in our faith when it comes to adoption.

Here areseven ways you and your church can do orphan ministry:

(1.) Pray for the orphan.

(2.) Support missionaries who are working or wish to work in orphanages.

(3.) Find out where the orphan lives in your community and minister to him or her.

(4.) Go on a mission trip to an orphanage.

(5.) Financially help those who are willing and are able to take on mission endeavors to minister to

the orphan and help raise the needed money for families who are in the adoption process.

(6.) Host an orphan in your home during the Christmas holiday or for a few weeks in the summer.This gives them exposure to potential adoptive families and is a real blessing to the child/children.

(7.) Bring a child into a Christian covenantal home by way of adoption.

Let us then ask ourselves why we preach and glory in adoption but do not practice adoption

ourselves? Why do we not mirror what our heavenly Father has done for us? Answers to this

question will be addressed in upcoming newsletters, but for now let us ponder not whether we are

called to do orphan ministry, but what our roles in orphan ministry should be. Our churches need to

be awakened out of their slumber and provoked to action.

A distinction should be made between the terms Orphan Ministry and adoption. This

may come as a relief to some, but I do not think that we are all called and commanded to adopt.

But let me ask you this question: Is there any good and legitimate reason why you would not dowhat God has done for you and that is--adopt? Nevertheless, we are all commanded by God to

do orphan ministry. This is a clear, authoritative, unambiguous scriptural revelation of God to his

children. Friends, I boldly say that it is a sinful offence against God, sin against the orphan, and slight

to scripture to consider and pray about whether or not one should do orphan ministry having been

given such a clear divine directive to do so. Let us then find ourselves busy in doing orphan ministry.

Your Brother in Christ,

Robert Landrum

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Another Adoption?

We have been asked to consider adopting two special needs orphans in Ukraine. Whether

God intends us to take them into our family or has another family for them, we do not know.

But the hard truth is that they need a Christian family. Our hearts are open to making thempart of the Landrum family. Please pray for us as we seek Gods direction in changing the future

of these two boys.

Robert is planning to travel to Ukraine in January

to minister to the children in several orphanages,meet with missionaries, and assess the needs of

those in the area. He is still in need of support for

this trip. If you would like to contribute to this

mission endeavor through your financial support

or partnering with us in prayer, please contact us.

Donations can be made through PayPal by

clicking on the Donate button below or at the

top of our family blog.

Visit us at http://TheLandrumsBlog.blogspot.com

for updates on Roberts trip to Ukraine.

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Religion that God our Father accepts as

pure and faultless is this: to look after

orphans and widows in their distress and

to keep oneself from being polluted by

the world.

-James 1:27

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