I Will Come To You: It's Official- We're Adopting!

July 4, 2011

It's Official- We're Adopting!

So we have officially decided to adopt our next child! This is something that has been on my heart for a while now.

After Sarah was born, I started seeing things about orphans everywhere I looked. I would go online, and there'd be an advertisement from Samaritan's Purse at the top of the screen. I'd check the mail, and there'd be a pamphlet from World Vision. Orphans were everywhere, and I couldn't get them off my mind. God had the cause of the orphan in my mind and in my heart. It's funny how God works. I was always the one who didn't like to be around children and said that I'd never have any.

I decided that Wesley and I would help an orphan by child sponsorship... surely that would clear my conscience of any responsibility I had for the orphans. I called my sister to see where I could sponsor a child from, and she directed me to 100X Missions. From there I went to Phillip Cameron Ministries and read about Stella's House. This is a wonderful project to build group houses for the girls that age out of the orphanages in Moldova and become prime targets for sex traffickers. In these homes, they can continue their education and learn life skills. This is where we donate to every month now. I thought that having found a ministry to support and pray for, my conscience was cleared and we were through.

But God is never through with us... fortunately! God reminded me how he adopted me when I was not worthy to be adopted. He made me his child and gave me a purpose in this life- to bring Him glory by spreading his word and his love. He gave me a hope and a future that I will spend with him in heaven one day. Because God adopted Wesley and me and because He is bringing us into his home which is our inheritance, it's time for us to follow his example and adopt a child into our home. We are so excited about the new journey that God is leading us on! Please pray for us to be obedient to the Lord in everything he asks us to do!

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John 14:1-21

“Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. You know the way to the place where I am going.”

Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?”

Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”

Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.”

Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the works themselves. Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it. “If you love me, keep my commands. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever— the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.”