The F.A.C.E.S. Leadership Team (listed alphabetically by last name):

Bill & Becky Miller

Carnell & Nancy Moore

Dan & Diana Sullivan

Doug & Cally Walters

Nora Wilson

Our leadership team has united under the umbrella of the FACES Orphan Care Ministry serving in theses areas of care: 1. Birth-mother/birth-families, 2. Foster Care, 3. Domestic Adoption, 4. International Adoption/Orphan Needs, 5. Mentoring, 6. Being a Voice/Guardian Ad Liteum, 7. Prayer & Provision "Wrap Around" Support Teams and 8. Administrative Support. 

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IBC leadership individuals overseeing our F.A.C.E.S. ministry [(813) 264-1515]:

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The Great Commandment:

"Jesus replied: 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.'

This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."

Matthew 22:37-39

To fully love my Lord I must love others, for others are part of Him:

"No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another,

God lives in us and his love is made complete in us." 

1 John 4:12

"But if anyone obeys his word, love for God is truly made complete in them. This is how we know we are in him:

Whoever claims to live in him must live as Jesus did."

1 John 2:5-6

The orphan is a tangible example of who we were before we received Christ and God adopted each of us.  Could God be using them to show us how to love one another in the way He called us to?

The Call within the Call

"Pure and genuine religion in the sight of Godthe Father means caring for orphans and widows in their distressand refusing to let the world corrupt you" 

James 1:27 NLT

Our true hearts must not beconform to the world, but instead value the orphan as God does;  Thenand only then will we have thecompassion that He has called us to have for them which will move us intoaction on behalf of His orphaned... which is to love them as ourselves. We are not all called to adopt but we are allcalled to care.

"Let me give you a new command: Love oneanother. In the same way Iloved you, you love one another. This is how everyone will recognize that youare my disciples-when they see the love you have for each other." 

John 13:34-35

How much does God value the Orphaned?

"This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. 

And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.”

1 John 3:16

Over 45 times God mentions the fatherless/orphaned in the Bible. 

The Need

...143 Million orphansWorldwide

...535,000 orphans in theUnited States

...3000 orphans in HillsboroughCounty

"Although my father and my mother have forsakenme, yet the Lord will take me up [adopt me as His child]." 

Psalm 27:10 AMP

The "orphan" on Earthincludes physically orphaned and socially orphaned children; That is some kidshave no family alive (physically orphaned), while other kids (socially orphaned) have family that for financial, governmental, social reasons, etc.have relinquished their rights to the child and given custody of the child toan appointed non-family arrangement (International orphanage, United StatesFoster Care, Domestic adoption, etc.).

By His Will (An Eternal family with Him and Earthly family with us):

 "A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling. God sets the lonely in families..."  Psalm 68:5-6

By the Lord's example, adoption:

"He predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with His pleasure and will." Ephesians 1:5

By feeding them with the everlasting truth, God's Word:

"For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat.  I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink..."Matthew 25:35

By inviting them into our lives, we invite the Lord into our life...  Just as God has invites us into His Kingdom:

"...I was a stranger and you invited me in," Matthew 25:35

God intends for them to come into our lives:

"When you are harvesting in your field and you overlook a sheaf, do not go back to get it. Leave it for the foreigner,

the fatherless and the widow, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands." Deuteronomy 24:19 

In our lives how long? Until they are satisfied;  Could that be until they have a sense of belonging to the Lord and His people:

"When you have finished setting aside a tenth of all your produce in the third year, the year of the tithe, you shall give it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow, so that they may eat in your towns and be satisfied." Deuteronomy 26:12

Those whom have received Christ, are to be reaching Tampa and beyond, now...

"But you shall receive power(ability, efficiency, and might) when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, andyou shall be My witnesses in Jerusalem and all Judea and Samaria and to theends (the very bounds) of the earth."  Acts1:22 AMP

The Idlewild's Mission isembraced through F.A.C.E.S. as we answer the call together:

Exalt the Savior:

We exalt the Savior bybringing opportunity and encouragement to the orphan to worship the Lord.

Evangelize the Sinner:

We evangelize the orphanedsinner by bridging oppression through encapsulating the weak in Christ.

Enlist the Servant:

We enlist the servant byboundary-less embracement through spiritual and Earthly kinship to theabandoned

Equip the Saved:

We equip the fatherlessfound in Christ Jesus by building eternal endeavors through education

Edify the Saints:

We edify the saints byinviting the orphaned to becoming part of our community's next generation inChrist for fellowship

... All through the power ofGod's Holy Word

Presently, F.A.C.E.S. ministry's action focus has been on connectingThe Church in two ways:

Enlisting servants byfaith to enter into "vehicles" through which God (He's the driver) willequip them to care for His orphaned.

Vehicle examples:

FACES Monthly Thursday Support & Awareness Meeting

Foster Care Orientation & MAPPcourses (offered on IBC campus ashost)

HKI (Hillsborough Kids, Inc.) FaithBased Initiative (Christian countywidecommittee effort)                                                         

Evangelize orphaned sinnersby sharing the overflow of our own living worship of the Lord with the childrenin need;

Vehicles examples:    

Adoption/Fostering/Mentoring (sharingour individual spiritual lives by sharing our lives with them)

Good Night Club (A night-time Christian spiritual readingembracement with foster children)        

Camelot Community Carebabysitting (love on kids as their foster parents have a night out)

Four Soils Events & otherscriptural based activities (scripture weaved into an activity done withkids)        

Recreational & Children'sMinistry outreach invitations (ie.Seasonal sports/clinics, Fall Festival& VBS)

Children's Hope Chest RussiaVision Trip (Dec 2007-March 2008) prospected to connect church members of IBC withorphans all within the same orphanage.   

Future desires of F.A.C.E.S.are to expand towards:

Establish an official IBC budget for the F.A.C.E.S. Ministry

Shoeless Sunday (SelectedSunday message on caring for the orphaned and exemplifying obedience through shoedonation; perhaps immediate response with the shoes we‘re wearing???)

Adoption/Foster Care/Orphan Care Fair

Weekend Workshops (2-3x/yr) (Hosting Christian organizations ie MosesProject, Bethany, Family Life)

Mentoring Program (connecting the Body of Christ with kidslingering in the system awaiting direction)

Aftercare Awards WorkExperience [Providing work experience within the church (to those who ageout of the system of carewithout a family) that awards their effort with financial contribution to a vendor (ie. Rent,Electricity, etc.) to prevent homelessness physically and spiritually

Launch Adoption Fund (currently>$2000, being organized to begin offering to the Body of Christ)

Family Embracement Program connectingthe church to actively support those who foster/adopt by providing prayersupport, financial & counsel support, respite care, tutoring, guardian adlitum

Pregnancy Crisis help bychurch connecting w/ those in pregnancy crisis/birth motherposition/infertility

Adoption Homebuilders Group

Orphanage focused Missionstrips

Develop FACES website on IBC website to glorify the Lord by connecting His people to His kids in need

Develop IBC library resources onadoption/foster care/orphan care

Voluntarily survey our ownchurch (IBC) orphaned?  Identify how their lives have/have not been touch by adoption/foster care/orphan care.

Future OVERVIEW desires ofF.A.C.E.S. are to:

- Unite the orphaned withthe Lord

- Unite churches/Christian organizations of Tampa Bay andbeyond to make an impact for caring for God's orphaned

- Develop better support systems for families who have andwho will be adopting and fostering

- Educate the Church about tangible ways to care for God'sorphaned

- Mobilize the Church into action 

The Question?

What has God been impressing upon your heart over the lastseveral months regarding a response to the orphan's cry?

"Do not merely listen tothe word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says." James 1:22