WHAT IS THE MOSES FOUNDATION?
The Moses Foundation is a non-profit organization that seeks to provide grants, and no-interest loans to families wishing to adopt children. We also intend to pull together resources that will assist adoptive families in their endeavors.
WHY CALL IT THE MOSES FOUNDATION?
There are two events that prompted me to call this organization The Moses Foundation. The first occurred when Moses was a baby. The second takes place when Moses is a grown man and many have speculated on what the people of Israel required while wandering in the wilderness…and then marvelled at how God met their needs.
Moses as a Baby:
The following verses taken from the Bible, the book of Exodus, Chapters 1 and 2, explain that Moses was an adopted son:
Then Pharaoh gave this order to all his people: "Every boy that is born you must throw into the Nile, but let every girl live."
Now a man of the house of Levi married a Levite woman, and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him for three months. But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile. His sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him.
Then Pharaoh's daughter went down to the Nile to bathe, and her attendants were walking along the river bank. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her slave girl to get it. She opened it and saw the baby. He was crying, and she felt sorry for him. "This is one of the Hebrew babies," she said. Then his sister asked Pharaoh's daughter, "Shall I go and get one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?" "Yes, go," she answered. And the girl went and got the baby's mother. Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Take this baby and nurse him for me, and I will pay you." So the woman took the baby and nursed him. When the child grew older, she took him to Pharaoh's daughter and he became her son. She named him Moses, saying, "I drew him out of the water."
Moses as a Grown Man:
When Moses was a grown man, God called him to lead His people out of Egypt, so after a number of false starts, Moses began the journey.
Moses and the people were in the desert, but what was he going to do with them?
They had to be fed, and feeding two to three million people requires a lot of food.
According to the Quartermaster General in the Army, it is reported that Moses would have to have had 1500 tons of food each day. Do you know that to bring that much food each day, two freight trains, each at least a mile long, would be required!
Besides you must remember, they were out in the desert, so they would have to have firewood to use in cooking the food. This would take 4000 tons of wood and a few more freight trains, each a mile long, just for one day.
And just think, they were forty years in transit.
And Oh yes! They would have to have water. If they only had enough to drink and wash a few dishes, it would take 11,000,000 gallons each day and a freight train with tank cars, 1800 miles long, just to bring water!
And then another thing!
They had to get across the Red Sea at night. Now, if they went on a narrow path, double file, the line would be 800 miles long and would require 35 days and nights to get through. So there had to be a space in the Red Sea, 3 miles wide so that they could walk 5000 abreast to get over in one night.
But then, there is another problem…each time they camped at the end of the day, a campground two-thirds the size of the state of Rhode Island was required, or a total of 750 square miles long...think of it!
Do you think Moses figured all this out before he left Egypt? I think not!
You see, Moses believed in God. God took care of these things for him.
I believe that God will bless this work and provide all our needs and the needs of those families we are hoping to help, and ultimately the kids who need those families.
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