My husband and I have adopted four children two and under and when we go on walks, we literally stop traffic. People literally slow down to stare at our family. (I’m sure those who have adopted know what I mean!). Anytime we go anywhere, people feel the liberty to stop us and tell us we are crazy for adopting four kids who are so young. But the truth is...
Tuesday Testimony is a time when we focus on testimonies of some of our grant recipients. May you be blessed by their stories. Believing strongly that children are a blessing from the Lord, we knew early in our marriage that we wanted to begin growing our family. In God's sovereignty, He allowed us to struggle with infertility as a means to open our eyes to the joys of adoption. Through the teachings at our church, observing...
Tuesday Testimony is a time when we focus on testimonies of some of our grant recipients. May you be blessed by their stories. On April 6th, 2009 our family completed our first adoption of a beautiful 2 day old baby boy born in Virginia. Beating the odds of his troubled beginnings, he is now a healthy, exuberant little boy, created in his Heavenly Father's beautiful image. However, our adoption journey did not end there. Because of our first adoption...
I heard a sermon one time that encouraged us to "argue with God in prayer" by appealing to his character. As we've gone through our adoption process, I found myself many times praying, "Lord, I know that you care about the orphan. You care about our kids who are in the orphanage right now without parents and I ask you to exercise your care for these fatherless children by causing...
Lord, just because the task is so overwhelming I know I can't do everything, please let that not keep me from doing something … Or cause me to do nothing.
Tuesday Testimony is a time when we focus on testimonies of some of our grant recipients. May you be blessed by their stories. We discussed the possibility of adopting before we married. After we had been married a couple of years, we trained at The Master’s Mission, hoping to enter remote missionary service. Following our year of training, God called us to serve His kingdom domestically through a local youth ministry and service in the local church. ...
I just wanted to share a picture book with you today that will resonate with us as adoptive parents and will also make our little ones smile and cuddle a little closer. A book is such a great way to open doors to talk more openly about our stories – and this one is no exception. I Wished for You by Marianne Richmond is sweet and yet so powerful. It is the tender story of a little bear asking...
Testimony Tuesday is dedicated to the stories of our grant recipients. May you be encouraged by their stories… We have been married 29 years and have always loved kids. Kevin is a pastor and also the athletic director and boys basketball coach at our children’s Christian school . Cindy is a nurse but stays home full time with our children. God has blessed us with 8 children now. We adopted our first child...
After our first adoption, I may have shared minor bumps with you (although believe me, they felt like MAJOR bumps at the time!!) but that was all I could share – the joys and the blessings of adoption. It was textbook – the timeline went basically like we were told, our paperwork went through without any major hitches, and we brought our baby girl home and felt JOY! Our second adoption story is a completely different story – time frames...
Maybe you've thought to yourself, "Why should I bother adopting or helping someone fund adoption – the problem is too large to even make a dent." I know I've felt overwhelmed just thinking about the 5 MILLION orphans in just Ethiopia alone, not to mention the rest of the world. And yet, while we as Christians await a new heavens and a new earth where there will be no more lonely children or suffering, we CAN make...
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