Our Adoption Testimony Part Two:

Six months passed and one day, Jeanette was waiting on our vehicle to get repaired and she was checking items off of her to-do list which included setting up the next appointment for our medical procedure in New York City. That seemed like a really personal thing to be doing when strangers could hear her conversation, so she waited and didn’t make the call.

She spent the rest of the time reading the book Radical by David Platt. When she got to a section where he describes going to his county foster system and asking how many children needed homes  ( 164) and then essentially challenging his church to take in all of those children, Jeanette started weeping in the car dealership and she remembered the two little girls and all of the other children she had put in her profiles. She immediately began looking back at her profiles and discovered that all of the children she had viewed were now in the  process of being adopted except for the two little girls. Upon further investigation, she discovered the cost of the adoption at the time was estimated at 35,000.00 . The same as the medical procedure. Jeanette felt like this was a sign and an opportunity to make a choice.

The choice we ended up making, obviously, was to stop our pursuit of medical assistance and pursue the adoption of Kumnager and Kalkidan. We discovered that during the six months we weren’t pursuing them, someone else was and then dropped their case without any explanation to the adoption agency. We take that as another sign that God is trying to build a family for these girls with us as their parents.

We know there are risks involved in this process and there is no guarantee these girls will become our daughters, but for now, in our hearts they already are, and we will do everything we can to bring them home.