Effective Compassion: Staying close to home - S4.E3

The World and Everything In It

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4.8 • 7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Christians once flocked to foreign countries to adopt children who desperately needed families to love them. But attitudes toward taking children so far from their home countries and native cultures have shifted. Christians who once emphasized adoptions are now prioritizing in-country care. What does that mean for vulnerable children around the world?You can hear each of the season 4 episodes earlier each week by subscribing to the Effective Compassion feed anywhere you get your podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/effective-compassion/id1492139540 (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/effective-compassion/id1492139540)North Korea is one of the most secretive, closed-off countries in the world, but World Help has a network of trusted partners there with 20+ years of experience smuggling Bibles and other aid to believers. These partners use donations to print, ship, and secretly distribute Bibles as well as food to people who have been desperately praying for help. And since North Koreans share their Bibles with trusted family and friends, each copy impacts around five people. Click here (http://worldhelp.net/podcast) to learn more and donate.

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0:00.0	The country of Albania sits on the Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe.
0:15.9	It borders Greece, North Macedonia, Kosovo and Montenegro.
0:21.1	The small country has a population of about 3 million people.
0:25.4	31,000 of them are orphans.
0:29.0	Tarana is the capital and the heart of the country.
0:32.6	On a mild day in January, I walked down the narrow streets in one of the city's oldest neighborhoods.
0:39.2	Where are we?
0:41.8	We're kind of towards the westbound side, so Mount Daity to the big mountain.
0:46.7	Meredith Barrett works with Albanian children and teen ministries.
0:51.1	Our walk ends at a towering concrete block apartment building, a relic from the country's
0:56.8	communist regime.
0:58.6	With a colorful new paint job, rust, yellow and bright blue to help lighten its bleak past.
1:06.3	Okay, we can go there.
1:08.3	Okay, we're going to take it a little bit.
1:09.5	A teeny tiny elevator.
1:12.0	Five.
1:13.0	So wonderful.
1:13.5	We're taken.
1:14.4	Should we take this there?
1:16.2	I think we're taking this there.
1:20.2	On the fifth floor, a Christian foundation called Eagles Wings rents out one of the apartments.
1:26.4	It uses the place as a small group home for at-risk youth.
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