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Two of my personal favorites of the evening:
-After hearing Pastor Alex's sermons on adoption, one recently wed couple had decided to live out James 1:27 by starting their family through adoption as "Plan A" rather than the traditional biological method. While the cardboard testimony rehearsal was taking place, just minutes before the banquet started, the Woods received the phone call they have been waiting on for several months. A little orphaned baby boy in Ethiopia named Silas had been chosen to become their son. Isn't God's timing and sense of humor amazing?
-A woman stopped me after the banquet, telling me that the Lord had just really did a work in her heart through the testimonies she had heard that night. She said she felt the Lord saying it was time to let go of infertility treatments and embrace adoption or foster care as the way He wanted to grow her family. She said she, in fact, was going to talk to her own pastor about starting an adoption/orphan ministry in her church.
Thank you Lord for what you are doing in your people, and may we be open vessels bringing hope to your most precious children.
6 comments:
AWESOME!!!
I LOVE EVERY WORD!
Plan A is always the best.
Praise the Lord,
Natasha
www.perrymanadoption.com
It was such a wonderful night. I simply could not sleep afterwards. It was wonderful being in a room with people passionate about the same thing! Thanks to everyone who did such an incredible job. Dinner was fabulously tasty, the music was a treat and the tears would not stop after the cardboard testimony.
I love the Plan A! How come so few do that?
Thanks again!
Molly, I would like to answer your question why so few people make adoption their first choice. I write this as an adoptee (from an eastern european orphanage) and as an adoptive parent who also made adoption my first and only choice. I have spent years talking formally and informally with hundreds (conservative estimate, probably more like thousands) of members of the adoption triad (first mothers, adoptive parents and adoptees) and every person I have spoken to who has "changed their mind" about their desire to adopt before/instead of giving birth has been talked out of it by Christians who say "God's plan A is giving birth." When we started our adoption journey, we desired to adopt "hard to place children" as infertile couples want healthy newborns. The christian social worker told us, "We would regret our decision later." Another christian agency wouldn't work with us unless we had a letter stating infertility from a doctor. I could list dozens of stories...but all that to say adoption is still stigmatized.
Adopted1.....Fascinating!! I would love to know who you are and hear more about your story. Thanks for sharing this.
Dear Charissa, Oops. Sorry. I never commented back. I'm kind of new to all this blog stuff and am not very "well mannered" yet. I started scouring adoption blogs when I knew that I would start blogging, as a way to see what blogging is and how people were building them. My blog is now up and running (although it is not an adoption blog). Feel free to visit it. I will be posting more of my children's adoption stories at some point, but for now you can read, "Kyle's Story." While my own adoption story isn't posted per se, my recent post on Thanksgiving (canadian) blessings, touches on it. As I share my children's stories I am mindful of not posting details that they will be uncomfortable reading themselves or having shared with others about their story. I am also mindful of their first parents and don't share information they would not wish shared with the world either. My priority right now is to parenting, not educating. This is something that comes up frequently in my talks with other adult adoptees - the hurt and anger they feel when their parents gave too much personal information to other people. It is, after all, first and foremost, "their story." Something to think about as people share their stories...Blessings, Jennifer
www.IChooseJoy.ca
I am so grateful to see this post! My husband and I have been married for 4 1/2 years and are using adoption from Ethiopia as our "Plan A" as well! We believe that every child deserves a loving family who loves the Lord with all their hearts...and if there is a child already out there....We are trusting God to bring them home to us!
Thank you!
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