Our Journey to Adoption

Please join us on our journey to bring Hanna home! About one and a half years ago we felt our family was complete with two girls and two boys and kept inquiring of the Lord what our ministry was. We were not getting any clear leading from the Lord and continued to pray. Our children would come to us and express the desire to adopt again but we dismissed these fanciful dreams and again prayed that the Lord would lead us to where he would have us serve Him. This went on for almost six months. God began to clearly speak to Dave about adoption and he followed the Lord hard and declared we should adopt two! Laura was still not convinced and was even getting a little testy about the whole matter, especially when Dave would press his idea of adopting siblings! During a quiet time in September the Lord impressed upon Laura that raising children to follow Him is our ministry and that we were to adopt another child. Our path was clear and we enthusiastically decided to walk it! We started our paperwork with All God's Children International in November. In February while looking at the AGCI waiting child website we saw our daughter, Hanna. We called AGCI to inquire about her and was told that because she was too close in age to our son she would not be a good match for our family. There is a serious concern over "artificial twinning" when two siblings are within 9 months of age. The funny part was that our son, Hanna's artificial twin, is over six feet tall with blonde hair and blue eyes and is all about sports! No twinning going to go on here! We had prayed that morning that the Lord would shut the door if this child was not ours and we just let it go after the "artificial twinning" diagnoses. We checked the AGCI waiting child page a week later and Hanna was gone; she had found another forever family. After a few tears we realized that the Lord had another child for us. A month later we were looking at the waiting child page again and saw Hanna was back! Laura phoned AGCI and found the other family changed their mind. We then told them all about our son and how the "artificial twinning" possibility was not an issue. After hearing Laura's speech, Mindy, the awesome waiting child program coordinator thought we may be the family for Hanna! It has been a whirwind of paperwork, research, and prayers since then and on August 10 we will finally meet our beautiful Hanna. We cannot say enough wonderful things about All God's Children International! The staff have made this adoption such a joy and blessing! We cannot wait to bring our Hanna home!