Adoption Party
I went to an adoption party with my kids today. Jennifer, friend I've known since I was 2 years old (she was three), went to China last year. She fell in love with a little girl who will be coming to the US soon as her daughter.
The church she goes to has supported interracial adoption since I was a kid. They just love kids! Two years ago they opened an orphanage in Africa for kids whose parents had died of AIDS. Most of the kids have AIDS too. Several of the couples who are nearing retirement age are planning on retiring to Africa to live at the orphanage and help raise these kids. Thanks to this child-loving church, these kids have a future. In the last link, you can see a picture of the Cooney family, the first family to begin adopting interracially at the church and paved the way for "rainbow families" to blossom in the congregation.
When I went to the adoption party, there were about 10 women there and 4 of them brought adopted daughters from China (others had adoped children from China and elsewhere who are older and were in school during the party). Of course, it's only Chinese girls (not boys), because of the preference of girl children over boys in that culture.
My husband and I plan to adopt children in a few years when ours are a little older. Not because we can't have children, but because we find that the more love we give away, the more love we have inside our own hearts.
May the Lord blossom the love in your heart today.
The church she goes to has supported interracial adoption since I was a kid. They just love kids! Two years ago they opened an orphanage in Africa for kids whose parents had died of AIDS. Most of the kids have AIDS too. Several of the couples who are nearing retirement age are planning on retiring to Africa to live at the orphanage and help raise these kids. Thanks to this child-loving church, these kids have a future. In the last link, you can see a picture of the Cooney family, the first family to begin adopting interracially at the church and paved the way for "rainbow families" to blossom in the congregation.
When I went to the adoption party, there were about 10 women there and 4 of them brought adopted daughters from China (others had adoped children from China and elsewhere who are older and were in school during the party). Of course, it's only Chinese girls (not boys), because of the preference of girl children over boys in that culture.
My husband and I plan to adopt children in a few years when ours are a little older. Not because we can't have children, but because we find that the more love we give away, the more love we have inside our own hearts.
May the Lord blossom the love in your heart today.
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