We are Brandon and Sarah Roberts and we have four young sons. We’ve known each other since high school and have been married for nine years. Early in our relationship, we shared with each other that we felt called to someday grow our family through adoption. Our family expanded quickly with four little boys, right in a row. After our fourth son was born, God moved in Sarah’s heart in a big way. Before we knew it, our hearts were longing for the daughter we know God has chosen for our family. We can’t wait to bring her home. Her brothers pray for her and talk about her constantly. When we began our journey, we believed we would be adopting from Ethiopia. However, a little girl on the Waiting Child List through our agency captured our hearts and God has moved in us once again, this time to South Africa. At this time, we are trying to complete the necessary steps as quickly as possible, as well as gather the funds to bring our daughter out of an orphanage, into our home and into our family, where she belongs. We are so grateful for all support, prayer, and wisdom of those that choose to walk this path with us. We believe what God has commanded, He will accomplish.
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We are older parents, not having given any thought to having children until a trip to China in 2006. We returned one year later to adopt a child who had a congenital heart defect that needed repair. She is thriving now, four years later! Of course we have spent those years in speech and physical therapies to help her gain a life that had not been possible before her surgery. We were privileged to be in a wonderful church that supported us in every way that they could … offering their contributions to her adoption costs, praying over her surgery and recovery, and welcoming her into the church family.
My family has been greatly touched by the mission trips a few of our friends made to India. Through them we came to know and love a little girl with special needs, currently living in an orphanage. We very much want to be her family. We have three wonderful sons, AJ, Ben and Henry, who are all very excited about having a little sister to care for and play with.
Phil and I have been married for eleven years. He is a 6th grade teacher; I was a school social worker but currently am a stay-at-home mom. We began an adoption process in 2006 after being told we could not have kids. At the time, China’s wait time was around one year. We watched that time frame expand – which was very difficult! The Lord surprised us with not only one, but two miracle babies in the next 5 years! What a blessing and show of his wondrous love for us! Our boys are 3 and 1. We stayed with our China adoption as we felt that our daughter was there and waiting for us. And now that wait time is nearly over….Our LID is September 26, 2006, and China just matched dossiers from September 11, 2006. It looks like we’ll be matched with a baby and get a referral in late August. We will travel there 6-8 weeks later to get her. So instead of our original plan of her being our only child, she will be the little sister of two doting big brothers!
My wife and I met in September of 1999 and we courted for a year and a half where we spent a lot of time at the beach, snowboarding and rock climbing to name a few. We basically enjoyed being together and were married in December of 2000 in Coeur d’ Alene, ID.
The Lord has put it on our hearts for some time to adopt as we adopted Micah (Ethiopia) at age three We feel that the Lord has led us to adopt from Uganda and we are feeling led to adopt a couple of children – He may have different plans – so we will let Him decide. You might wonder what made us decide to do this and all we can say is that it was God who put this desire into our hearts although Brenda can no longer have children we feel the Lord’s calling in this area of our lives very strongly.
We are excited about the opportunity to offer these kids our love and to learn about Jesus. We know God has special children chosen just for us and we are eager to be completely faithful and obedient to what He is calling us to do. It will be exciting to see how He works out the whole adoption process.
Stephen and Michelle are currently in vocational ministry to college students at Texas A&M. After having their first child, Ezra, God opened their eyes to the millions of orphans around the world who deserve parents. After praying (and researching, and discussing, and praying some more), they are moving forward to adopt a child from Ghana. They are currently assembling their dossier and hope to bring home their son or daughter in the summer of 2013.
After being blessed with two loveable dogs that make our lives interesting we decided our home wasn’t full enough and that children would help fill our days. After much time and tears we realized that adoption was the answer we needed to our prayers. Our journey has been long as some of you may know. However, it is getting closer every day.
Dean and I are the parents of seven beautiful children. We always wanted to adopt internationally but didn’t know when or from where. In 2009 God specifically called us to two little boys in Zambia, Africa. We brought them home in April, 2010. We had our fifth biological child in March 2011 and thought we were done. In late 2011, God specifically and clearly called us to two precious little boys in China. Both children were born with cleft lip and palate as well as other facial anomolies. Our third biological child, Azlan, was born with the same condition and it has been amazing to see how God has lined everything up for “such a time as this”.