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does the largest Presbyterian denomination stand as a defense for the vulnerable--the widow and the orphan (For who is more an orphan than a baby whose mother is seeking to kill him?

But unless the child is an orphan, it always begins with the goal of reunification with a parent or parents

Moloch and Baal and throughout the Bible, we are exhorted to care for the defenseless - the widows and orphans

Even if our own fathers fail to step up, we are not orphaned (John14:18): We bear the image of our heavenly

how to help your church engage in the multiple issues of life: rescuing infants, caring for women and orphans

As Christians, we are to care for the fatherless and orphans.

seems to be fully in line with what James called “true religion,” which is to attend to widows and orphans

Imagine the world is dark, frigid, and devoid of sensation. You dream of the day when you find a home, surrounded by warmth and loving voices, but that seems far off from this dark abyss. You are frozen – as a human embryo. It is not science fiction – more than 1,000,000 potential lives are cryopreserved in the United States. In vitro fertilization (IVF) helps families give birth to the child they have dreamed about for years. Many patients have given birth to the number of children they desire to parent and are now facing a difficult decision about their embryos remaining in frozen storage. The options are few. Families can: continue to pay an annual embryo storage fee have the embryos thawed and discarded donate the embryos for scientific research (destroys the embryos) donate for reproduction, either anonymously or directed In 1997 Nightlight Christian Adoptions, a licensed adoption agency, decided to help families with remaining embryos have more control over donation for reproduction. They pioneered the first embryo adoption program in the world and called it the Snowflakes Embryo Adoption Program that follows the best practices of adoption. Before Snowflakes, the only way to donate embryos was anonymously through the fertility clinic that created them. Each embryo was created with the hope a baby would be born. The only life-giving option for remaining embryos in frozen storage is donating for reproduction. Snowflakes allows the embryo placing family to be empowered to choose a family to receive their embryo gift. The adoption home study process vets each adopting family. The adopting family is able to experience pregnancy and childbirth and eliminate the expensive options of multiple rounds of IVF or having to purchase ‘donated’ human eggs. Open relationships are encouraged for the benefit of all the people involved, the donor, adopter and most importantly – the child. An open adoption allows the placing parents to know if a child has been born to the adopting family. Families mutually agree to the level of communication between them. It can range from simple exchanges of emails to vacationing together! As with any human relationship, we see communications between families evolve over time. Over 1,600 families have chosen to place their embryos for adoption through the Snowflakes program. Read our special embryo donation edition of Pathway2Family Magazine online. Learn more about placing embryos for adoption from Jen@Nightlight.org | 970-693-6799.