Why

As we have shared with our family and friends that we are in the process of adopting from Africa, we have received many responses.  The main response is complete excitement for us, our family, and our future children.  Along with this response there have been many comments on how we are doing such a noble/admirable thing.  This response in itself is why we chose to create this blog.  In addition to keeping everyone up-to-date on where we are in this adoption process, we also wanted to clarify why we are doing this. 

As Christians, we have learned that our plans many times do not match up with God's plan for us.  And, God's plans for us many times lead us to do things that are very different from the world around us.  With that being said, if you had asked us a year ago, we would have told you we were done having children.  But over the last year God made it clear to us that we were to have more children, and that they were not to be our own.  So we are not doing this to earn gold stars or brownie points.  On the contrary, we are do this because it is where God is leading us and all the glory should go to Him, not us.  We are simply being obedient.

We have also been asked by many people, "Why Africa?"  or one of my personal favorites, "You do realize those children will be more black than the black children here?"  There are currently 147 million ophans in the world, and there are a lot here in the U.S.  But we felt like our government does a good job of financially supporting these children through our foster care system.  There are other countries on the other hand that have more of a need for help than ours.  Not to mention, unfortunatley we will still live in a time where many people do not want to adopt black children.  We recentley read an article talking about how the adoption rate in China has increased greatly and some people believe this is due to the fact that Chinese children are closer to white than other children.  Our point being, in addition to God leading us to Africia, there is a definite need for homes for black children, even here in the U.S.

My challenge to each of you is to find ways that you can help.  This doesn't mean you need to adopt, but there are many ways you can help the millions of orphans here in the U.S. and all over the world.  Check out the links above our pictures.

I would also like to ask you to pray for us on this journey that we just only begun.  There will be many ups and downs that require a lot of patience and us waiting on God's perfect timing.