My dear friend from college, Kelley, just brought her daughter, Grace, home from China five months ago. This video is the journey of how she became their daughter. Grace has the spunkiest personality and she is absolutely beautiful! Children are a gift from God!
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Grace's Adoption Video from Kelley Brown on Vimeo.
Showing posts with label China Adoption. Show all posts
Showing posts with label China Adoption. Show all posts
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Monday, April 12, 2010
Oh, Amazing Grace...one less orphan!!
I have been on pins and needles waiting to here about my friend Kelley being united with her daughter yesterday in China. Kelley and I were roommates our junior year at Auburn together. Kelley is one of the first people I have known personally to go through the process of adoption. Her story is a testimony to the Lord's amazing grace! She has known her daughter from a picture for several months, but now she is holding her in her arms!! Truly amazing! Her daughter's name is Virginia Grace Xue Brown, they are going to call her Grace. Grace is so beautiful and she has the sweetest laugh. Reading about her "Gotcha day" brought me to tears! Oh, amazing Grace, how sweet the sound! Praise the Lord, for rescuing another orphan and making her a daughter! I am just thrilled for you, Kelley and Scott! God is so good!
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Now that I have seen
God has been developing this desire to adopt since Spring 2009. My husband, Dee, emailed Mark Richt's "Beauty of Adoption" video. Mark Richt is the University of Georgia's football coach who adopted two children from the Ukraine. This is a beautiful picture of how God loves the broken things of this world.
In May, I learned that a family in our church, the Gordons,were adopting a two year old girl from China. A month later, they took the long plane ride to Beijing. I watched my first "gotcha day" video, on facebook, while they were still over there. Pretty amazing to watch a family come together for the first time. That video truly touched my heart. Jia is a precious little girl.
After Jia's adoption, I started talking to people in our church that shared the same interest. This encouraged me to think more deeply about adoption. One of my friends, Caroline, sent me, Lucy Lane's "Gotcha Day" video from the blog: We Love our Lucy Lane and I cried through the whole thing! I received it through email while I was at the lake with my family and I made them all watch it too. God was working in my heart and opening my eyes. My husband Dee was excited that I was developing a heart for adoption.
About a month later, my friend Andrea called to tell me she and her husband were going to adopt from Ethiopia. Babe of My Heart
I was thrilled for them and told her we also wanted to adopt one day, but this was just not the right time. Life is too crazy with two young kids. Little did I know what God was doing in my heart. A of couple weeks later in August, Andrea posted an incredible blog by a girl named Katie Davis. It wasn't until the end of September that I decided to check it out.
Katie is a 21 year old girl from Brentwood, TN who has adopted 14 children in Ug*nda. She also feeds, clothes and provides school for 400 children. About two years ago she started this ministry called Amazima Ministries. This ministry raises money for these children in this Ug*ndan village. Her life is a true picture of what it means to be selfless and fully trust Christ for your every breath. Her stories truly humbled me. Here I am complaining that I have to take care of two children and I don't have "me time" anymore. This totally changed my perspective. God used her to open my eyes to these precious children in Africa that have no mommies and daddies. I spent three days reading her whole blog. The work she is doing over there is amazing and has encouraged me to know my Jesus more. It was on her blog that I learned these statistics.
*There are 145 million orphans worldwide.
*15 million have lost one or both parents to AIDS
*Over 11.6 million live in Sub-Saharan Africa
For the next week or so I discussed the possibilities of adopting with my husband. We knew God was leading us to adopt a child, because we now shared this same passion. The only thing that stood in our way was money. We just added onto our two bedroom, one bath house to make it a four bedroom, one bath house. Our 1940s house ended up needing a lot more work than we intended to do. I thought, "So why is God putting this on our hearts now?"
After doing a little more research, we realized that money should never be a reason not to adopt. This video inspired us to just trust the Lord to provide. There are many organizations that give grants for adoption and many ways to raise money to bring orphans home. So now we are praying that God would provide the money if this is his will.
God has opened our eyes to the orphans of the world, just like he opened my eyes to his truth several years ago. I have been loved much, so that I am free to love!
In May, I learned that a family in our church, the Gordons,were adopting a two year old girl from China. A month later, they took the long plane ride to Beijing. I watched my first "gotcha day" video, on facebook, while they were still over there. Pretty amazing to watch a family come together for the first time. That video truly touched my heart. Jia is a precious little girl.
After Jia's adoption, I started talking to people in our church that shared the same interest. This encouraged me to think more deeply about adoption. One of my friends, Caroline, sent me, Lucy Lane's "Gotcha Day" video from the blog: We Love our Lucy Lane and I cried through the whole thing! I received it through email while I was at the lake with my family and I made them all watch it too. God was working in my heart and opening my eyes. My husband Dee was excited that I was developing a heart for adoption.
About a month later, my friend Andrea called to tell me she and her husband were going to adopt from Ethiopia. Babe of My Heart
I was thrilled for them and told her we also wanted to adopt one day, but this was just not the right time. Life is too crazy with two young kids. Little did I know what God was doing in my heart. A of couple weeks later in August, Andrea posted an incredible blog by a girl named Katie Davis. It wasn't until the end of September that I decided to check it out.
Katie is a 21 year old girl from Brentwood, TN who has adopted 14 children in Ug*nda. She also feeds, clothes and provides school for 400 children. About two years ago she started this ministry called Amazima Ministries. This ministry raises money for these children in this Ug*ndan village. Her life is a true picture of what it means to be selfless and fully trust Christ for your every breath. Her stories truly humbled me. Here I am complaining that I have to take care of two children and I don't have "me time" anymore. This totally changed my perspective. God used her to open my eyes to these precious children in Africa that have no mommies and daddies. I spent three days reading her whole blog. The work she is doing over there is amazing and has encouraged me to know my Jesus more. It was on her blog that I learned these statistics.
*There are 145 million orphans worldwide.
*15 million have lost one or both parents to AIDS
*Over 11.6 million live in Sub-Saharan Africa
For the next week or so I discussed the possibilities of adopting with my husband. We knew God was leading us to adopt a child, because we now shared this same passion. The only thing that stood in our way was money. We just added onto our two bedroom, one bath house to make it a four bedroom, one bath house. Our 1940s house ended up needing a lot more work than we intended to do. I thought, "So why is God putting this on our hearts now?"
After doing a little more research, we realized that money should never be a reason not to adopt. This video inspired us to just trust the Lord to provide. There are many organizations that give grants for adoption and many ways to raise money to bring orphans home. So now we are praying that God would provide the money if this is his will.
God has opened our eyes to the orphans of the world, just like he opened my eyes to his truth several years ago. I have been loved much, so that I am free to love!
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