Someday soon I will write out our whole adoption story. I won't leave out the crushing weekend at the end of June after more disappointments, miscommunication and bitterness when I wrote in my journal "God, maybe you don't have a second baby for us after all." But that wasn't true. In fact, the day I …
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The Lord is Still Working. An Adoption Update.
Since last June, we have had eighteen mothers choose other families over us, one mother chose us and then changed her mind (the adoption failure last fall) and one mother chose us last month but we were unable to go forward with it due to legal complications. It’s been a hard process. At times it …
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Sad Adoption Update
We are writing to you with sad personal news. The adoption for which we had planned sadly failed. The mother decided to try to parent the baby rather than placing him with us. A “failed” adoption is always a possibility and we knew that going in. But in this situation, the mother seemed so certain …
We Hope to Adopt Again!
From the start of us dreaming about adoption, I think that we always wanted more than one child. Alina has surpassed our hopes as far as temperament (she is so happy!) and we want her to grow up with the joy of having a sibling. Chris is hoping for a boy and I kinda want …
The Mandate and Multiplicative Effect of Training Men for Ministry–A Brief Theology of Why We want to Help Train Pastors in Malawi
Jesus, the Head of the Church, gave the church the mandate to make disciples of all nations (Matt 28:18-20). A disciple of Christ is one who follows Christ and loves Him and shows his or her love by obedience to His commands. But a big follow-up question is, “How?” How are disciples to be made …
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