are adopting a child
from United States of America
We are in the process of adopting the two children who live with us. Here is our story…My husband and I have had custody of our 12-year-old great niece since she was 14 months old. When we found out that she existed and was being neglected, we flew to Phoenix, Arizona, and obtained guardianship and brought her home with us, where she has lived ever since. The rest of the family does not get interested in her until it's time for us to adopt her, then they try to fight it because they don't mind us raising her, they just don't want her biological father's name removed from her birth certificate - even though he's never supported her in any way, and hasn't seen her since she was 5 months old. We lost an adoption attempt 7 years ago because he was temporarily out of prison and showed up to fight it and begged the judge for a 'chance.' Well, now that he's over $13,000 behind in child support, with no hopes of her ever seeing that money, he's serving his 3rd stint in prison for drugs and weapons charges, we are trying again, but THIS TIME, we will have her biological mother on our side to testify against him as well. She has a good relationship with her, as do we. Her biological mother accepts and agrees that we are her parents and we have been very good to this little girl for a lot of years, and we've always allowed the bio mother to be in our lives as part of our own family too.
We are also adopting our 4-year-old previously abused grandson. We have had to first fight my step-daughter (his aunt with whom he's never had a close relationship) for guardianship of him, after she fraudulently removed him from our home for 10 days and really upset him. He is now in counseling for PTSD and severe separation anxiety because that. He's finally accepted that his Kindergarten teacher is his friend and a safe person, so he's now doing better in school, but he still doesn't want anything to do with neither my stepdaughter nor her mother who took him away from us and he still has a lot of fierce emotions about that situation. He is now back home and feels safe and happy, once again, but will need counseling for a long time for that traumatic experience, as well as the abusive situation that he had previously been in with his parents. We are adopting him so that he never has to feel scared that someone 'is mean to him and won't let him come back home,' as he puts it in counseling when he describes her.
We hate asking anyone for any help of any kind - we are the ones who enjoy helping others and doing for others, because that makes us feel like we're doing what we're supposed to be doing for the Kingdom of Heaven. We love our church's motto - "Love Others, Serve Others." But in this instance, we just don't have the money to keep juggling all of our bills that up until next week have been with only one income. God blessed me with a really great job working downtown, and I will start next week, but in the beginning the job is only part-time. However, even part-time income is better than just having one income to pay all of our bills, buy groceries AND pay $2000/month to attorneys to keep the kids safe!
We have turned this over to God in His infinite wisdom, as He alone is our Provider and He will supply ALL our needs based on His riches in Glory. We know that He will make a way, even when our little brains can't see daylight……I love how Creflo Dollar phrases it, "Who am I, with my little peanut brain, to question the Almighty and All-Powerful God?!" We know He led us to raise these babies, and HE WILL MAKE A WAY for us to pay for their adoptions to give them PERMANENT HAPPY, CHRISTIAN HOMES. The parties that we are having to fight to keep these kids safe do not believe in God nor even acknowledge His existence.
We KNOW that God has no intention of these babies being raised in a home where our Heavenly Father's name is an 'ugly word' and where people don't even allow their children to say the blessing at mealtime because it 'offends' them. God placed these children with us with the purpose of being raised to serve, Love, and revere Him. We appreciate Your Prayers and Support and Thank you so much for taking the time out of your day to read our story!
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