Dave Sloan co-founded the Catholic Thrive conferences and the Singles Serving Orphans mission trips. Dave emceed and was keynote speaker at the first six "National Catholic Singles Conferences," as well as several national and international conferences on "Theology of the the Body." Find more at www.GodsFamily.net
Adopted by Orphans: The Singles Serving Orphans Missions
Orphans and singles, singles and orphans, you bring the two together and it’s like a nuclear bomb of love, a miracle potion. Orphans and singles are like two sides of the same coin, two halves of the same whole, a perfect fit. When we meet for the first time it’s more like we’re finding each other again after a long separation, a type of homecoming.
The first Singles Serving Orphans Mission trip was in February of 2008. 22 missionaries from all over the US met in Tucson, Arizona, and then drove two hours south, about 40 miles across the border into Mexico, to the Casa de Elizabeth Orphanage in the little town of Imuris. We were thinking that if the trip went well we might do it again, once every year.
In the subsequent 16 months we have made eight more mission trips to visit the eighty orphans at Casa de Elizabeth. We have rebuilt large sections of the orphanage, contributing many thousands of dollars in supplies and donations, and thousands of hours of skilled and manual labor. But the work we do is not the main point. The real importance of our shared work is simply the way that it speaks the language of love, our love for the orphans, and for our fellow missionaries.
