Missing Children -- Prayers For Everyone

[ Show ]

Support VoyForums

[ Shrink ]

VoyForums Announcement: Programming and providing support for this service has been a labor of love since 1997. We are one of the few services online who values our users' privacy, and have never sold your information. We have even fought hard to defend your privacy in legal cases; however, we've done it with almost no financial support -- paying out of pocket to continue providing the service. Due to the issues imposed on us by advertisers, we also stopped hosting most ads on the forums many years ago. We hope you appreciate our efforts.

Show your support by donating any amount. (Note: We are still technically a for-profit company, so your contribution is not tax-deductible.) PayPal Acct: Feedback:

Donate to VoyForums (PayPal):

[ Login ] [ Contact Forum Admin ] [ Main index ] [ Post a new message ] [ Search | Check update time | Archives: 1 ]

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Date Posted: 22:02:20 05/02/02 Thu
Author: Anonymous
Subject: Missing Children

One exceptional thing about the power of the internet is the chance that someone, maybe you, might recognize the face of a missing child that you saw in a photograph while browsing, and help reunite that child with her or his family.

The photographs are a heartbreakingly common sight; you see them in bulletin boards at grocery stores, on milk cartons. But regardless of how common the sight is, I personally have resolved, and hope others will to, to never overlook those photographs. Just imagine if it were your lost child's face in that photograph, how it might feel to watch people walk by indifferently. These are life rafts for these children, but the life lines themselves are thrown out to us.

Yes, the chances are slim that you might actually recognize a missing child, yet chances are, also, that more than one person has crossed paths with the very missing child that he or she didn't look at on the milk carton, a bulletin board, or internet banner. I guarantee this, and a missed chance at being reunited is almost as tragic as the abduction itself.

"It's probably the worst thing any parent could go through," he said. "It's the most hopeless, helpless, empty feeling you could go through when it's your own child. You expect the worst and hope for the best.

Each year, about 4,600 children nationwide are abducted by strangers."

Ribbons of Hope Campaign For Opal
"Just For This Morning", A Gratitude Poem For Parents

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]