You are Invited - The Global Orphan Care Conference

Friends,

 

You are invited to a special event at the Saddleback Church to an event that gives Hope for Orphans.

This is open to all whether you are of Korean heritage or not.

 

MPAK has joined hands with Hope for Orphans, Saddleback Church, CMF Ministries, and other organizations to dedicate a day to be a voice for homeless children not only in Korea but for millions of orphans in the world.

 

Event:  Hope for Orphans Institute Presents:  The Global Orphan Care Revival & the Korean Church

Date:  Tuesday, May 1, 2012, 9AM - 5PM

Place:  Saddleback Church, Refinery Center Auditorium
Address:  1 Saddleback Parkway, Lake Forest, California

 

Come and hear the messages (bilingual provided) and testimonies from:

 

Rev. Rick Warren (Saddleback Church)

Rev. Choi, Hong-jun (Busan Hosannah Church)

Paul & Robin Pennington (Hope for Orphans)

Rev. Jim Bob Park (OMC Church)

Rev. Eddie Byun (Seoul Onnuri Church EM)

Ms. Elizabeth Styfee (The Peace Plan)

Steve Morrison (MPAK)

 

The registration fee is $30, but if you register online at http://www.hfoinstitute.org/index.html, and used the code word 'mpak' then it will only cost $15.

For those of you who are more comfortable with Korean, please visit  http://www.hopefororphanskorea.org/.

 

There will be a nursery to baby sit, and Saddleback has arranged to provide this service from 9AM - 1PM for $30 per child.  I know this is pretty hefty, but it has been discounted from $50. I am told that Saddleback will subsidize $20 to help out with the care, and all the people in the nursery have been security and finger print checked and safe.  If this is hard for you economically, I would recommend that you bring your child anyway and stay with him/her during the conference.

 

Why this conference is so important?

Korean churches pride in their accomplishments over growth and expansion during the last 100 years of history, and prides in being the 2nd largest missionary sending nation in the world after the US. This is something we can be really be thankful for.

 

However, along the way the churches have forgotten the true meaning of Christ's compassion and love towards homeless children.  As the Scripture points out in Jame 1:27 that "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."

 

The Conference's objective is to plant this vision of Orphan Care into Korean churches, because the needs of children are so great.  Whether through sponsorship, orphan visits, fundraising, short term missions, and most importantly through adoption, we need to come together to give support to this conference, and to give hope for many homeless children. And that the Korean churches will wake up and respond to the needs of the children.

 

The conference is on Tuesday, May 1st, and that will be hard on many of you that need to work.  But as for me, I will be taking a vacation to attend the conference.  Please join me and many others and give Hope for Orphans.

 

Thank you, and hope to see many of you on May 1st.

 

Steve Morrison

562-505-0695