I feel like I really dropped the ball. I didn't even know about Orphan Sunday until a few days ago and I had no time to actually think through and plan events for our family, much less see if there was anything I could do to promote awareness around the community or at church. Now I know. Next year will be different.

My family will participate in an Orphan's Table meal periodically throughout the year. I think it's an amazing way to actively illustrate to our children why we care so deeply for orphans. Right now Aisley understands they don’t have a family, home, or “things”, but she can’t apply that to her own life or even slightly understand what it really means.
The Orphan’s Table is a meal shared among family, friends, small group, whatever. The meal consists of the same meal an orphan most likely eats every single day, at every meal-if there are multiple meals. The idea is to make the environment as realistic as possible, so sit on cardboard boxes or the floor, use an old tin bowl and wooden spoon, and maybe even share out of one large bowl. (I’ve read that a method such as this is common in Ethiopian culture and we’re being educated on how to handle transitions such as this when our child finally comes home. Pretty wild, huh?!)
http://orphansunday.org/orphans-table/

Do you remember how many orphans there are worldwide? 147 million. That number has SIX zeros behind it, y’all. It’s impossible to imagine. We’re working hard (rather, Christ is working through us) to change the life of one orphan. Maybe two, who knows? But what about the others?

You can sponsor an orphan through many organizations, just make sure it’s legit.
http://www.allgodschildren.org/

You can also do what we did when God first put orphans on our heart. We weren’t sure if we were being called to adopt because finances and timing were all wrong. We weren’t even in a place where we could afford to sponsor a child. But we felt called to become involved somehow and I stumbled upon an organization that fully understands the true need of each orphan: prayer. At the time they had a Prayer Guardian Ministry. If interested you could email them and ask for a child to pray for each day. After a few days they responded to my request and sent me the name of a 6 year old little boy named David who lives in the Ouahigouya Orphanage in Burkina Faso, Africa.
www.warmblankets.org