Now in its sixth year, the OATH ministry continues to grow as it reaches out to help adoptive families in their quest to give orphans and abandoned children homes of their own. Orphans Awaiting Their Homes began in Fairhope, Alabama, as a fundraising organization in 2002, after Dan and Cindy Lippincott brought home their second adopted child, a Haitian daughter. Trevor, their fifth child, had been adopted domestically at birth from Ohio in 1993.
Responses from friends and acquaintances often included comments such as, “We would love to adopt if we had the money. It is so expensive. Why does it cost so much?” Another influencing comment was, “If you Christians think abortion is wrong, what are you going to do about it?”
Lippincott's came away burdened after seeing the huge need in Haiti, knowing that these children desperately needed someone to represent them. Dan never wanted an adoption to be hindered due to finances, so in honor of his 50th birthday in 2005, he requested an adoption fundraising banquet. This was the start of the annual OATH event and more serious endeavor for OATH.
According to hfgf.org, every 15 seconds, another child becomes an AIDS orphan in Africa. Every day, 5,760 more children become orphans. 143 million orphans in the world today spend an average of 10 years in an orphanage or foster home. Every year, 14 million children grow up as orphans and eventually age out of the system. That means every 2.2 seconds another orphan child ages out with no family to belong to and no place to call home. In 2007 UNICEF reported that their are at least 143 million orphans worldwide, that’s half the entire population of the United States.
There is an enormous need to share the love of a family with these millions of children. Help us get these children a home, one child at a time. Please contact us or take a look at our resources page to find out about adoption, even if you have looked into it before. If you are not able to adopt you do have the opportunity to help others in the adoption process by donating to The Oath Ministry. Every dollar counts. Your donations will prayerfully go to the needs of families in the working to bring a child home.
Donor From Ohio, “We recently celebrated our 60th wedding anniversary. We had discussed giving our gifts to a charity but had not decided which one. When you shared your ministry at our church Sunday, I knew that was where the money had to go-
Adopting from Ukraine, “From the bottom of our hearts we thank you for the donation toward our adoption”
Adopting from Liberia, “We are continually amazed at how God shows Himself to be faithful. Thank you for trusting Got to take care of you as you take care of others. Thank your church for us. You didn’t even know us, but you..”
