Now Rachel and Diane are showing us another way to carry birth. On our visit to Vietnam last year we learned that the government has a strict policy of limiting family size to two children because the population has doubled since the war. There are fines for a third child and job loss for a fourth. Abortions are free and frequent, so we know this child had a mother who valued her life, though she cannot care for her. Adoption doesn't happen only in families.
Communities can do it too.
This week, I had a long conversation with Jim Dickerson at the New Community Church over at 6 th and S in the Shaw neighborhood. They worship at 11, so a Seeker wouldn't need to give up coming here entirely. I guess it's more like good foster care, committed to launching a local church in a neighborhood that does have gifts but lacks the confidence to name them. Not all conceptions grow into full term births. Miscarriage happens more often than we know.