Sunday, February 21, 2010

Another FAC baby born!

Another FAC baby was born tonight! Details to come VERY soon!!! Please keep this precious family in your prayers. Please pray for this BM, pray that she is steadfast in her decision. I will post pictures as soon as our couple arrives and meets their precious baby boy!!! Thanks in advance for your prayers!!!




Tuesday, February 16, 2010

A Few of the CUTE babies adopted through FAC!!!

A few of the sweet babies adopted through FAC!!!! Love these sweet babies and their families!! Thank you for allowing us to be a part of your adoption journey!!


Adopted in January 2010

Adopted in December 2009

Adopted in January 2010

Adopted in September 2009

Adopted November 2009

Adopted October 2009


Adopted in November 2009


Adopted in January 2010







Saturday, February 13, 2010

Another match!!

WOW!! Two matched in two days! So excited for another FAC family. WE are so excited for them, their precious baby is due next Wednesday....please pray for them, pray for their BM, and of course their precious baby. Please pray that the LORD will protect their hearts and their finances!!! Thank you so much!!!


Thursday, February 11, 2010

Congrats!!!

Congrats to EV and DV!!! So excited for them!! They matched last night, and their precious baby is due early next month!!! Please continue to pray for them, pray for their unborn baby and for their sweet birth mother. Pray that she is steadfast in her adoption plan, pray that the Lord would use EV and DV to minister to her in this time!! How AWESOME would it be to see these BM's that are not christians, come to the LORD!!!! Praying that the Lord would draw each of these BM's close to HIM!!!!


We have 2 other clients that have been presented this week, and another one that will be presented next week, please keep each of these sweet families in your prayers. We are praying that the Lord would grant each of these couples their request...a precious baby!!!


Saturday, February 6, 2010

An Incredible story of adoption and how it parallels are spritual adoption...







This story is from Dr. Albert Mohler's blog...




Arno was inseparable from Mr. Penguin. The little Haitian boy was almost three years old, and the plush penguin with the word "love" inscribed upon it was his most treasured object. The orphan and his penguin were always seen together.

The boy had been given the penguin just after his birth. A Dutch couple was in the process of adopting him almost from the start of his life -- they had been matched to him when he was only two months old. The penguin represented a promise.

The process of adoption took two years -- the length of time considered adequate to determine that no living relatives might claim him. According to official estimates, there were over 50,000 parentless orphans in Haiti before the earthquake came and orphaned many thousands more.

Richard and Rowena Pet were the young Dutch couple who wanted so badly to be Arno's mother and father. They had struggled with infertility for years before deciding to adopt. As they awaited the adoption of Arno, Rowena became pregnant. Last August she gave birth to Jim, who was left in the care of relatives as Richard and Rowena flew to Haiti in January to claim Arno and complete the adoption process.

The story of Arno's adoption is movingly told by reporter David Charter of The Times [London]. As he reported, "Arno was shy at first but within 30 minutes of meeting his adoptive parents he reached for Rowena’s hand and took the Dutch couple on a tour of the orphanage in Port-au-Prince where he had spent most of his short life. He began to call them Mummy and Daddy."

Richard had shared their joy with a friend in an e-mail:

“We got to the orphanage feeling a bit strange. We went around a corner and immediately saw Arno walking towards us. He was OK until he was about half a meter away, but then he panicked. The woman from the orphanage helped out and half an hour later he took Rowena’s hand for the first time. I’m sorry but I can’t help crying at the moment as I type this. Arno has been showing us everything in the orphanage. He showed us an old car they have for the children to play on. He was holding a birthday card we sent for his second birthday.”

According to Charter, adoptive parents often stay at the Hotel Villa Therese in the PĂ©tionville district of Port-au-Prince. That is where Richard and Rowena took Arno. That is where they were when the earthquake came. And that is where they died together.

David Charter tells the story, with comments by Chris Spaansen, the friend to whom Richard had sent the e-mail:

Dutch TV cameras were on hand during the frantic search by an international rescue team with members from the Netherlands, Britain and Canada. . . . Lying there amid the rubble was the unmistakable blue and yellow toy bird, Mr Penguin, marked with the word “Love”, that went everywhere with Arno. “That toy helped them to make their first contact with the little boy. It had a really special place in the family. It was a very emotional moment for all of us,” Spaansen says.

Then this:

What the cameras did not show were the three bodies, found intertwined together, as if Rowena and Richard had tried to put protective arms around Arno as the masonry began to fall. The disaster cruelly destroyed the new family, creating its own orphan back in the Netherlands. Jim, just five months old, will be brought up by Rowena’s sister, who already has her own three-year-old boy.

The bodies of Richard and Rowena and Arno Pet were taken to the Netherlands together, just as they had been found together in the rubble of the Hotel Villa Therese. They had been a family for a few hours, but a family all the same. Arno had a tragically short life, but he ended that life in the arms of a mother and a father.

Who can read this account without heartbreak . . . and a heart warmed? Is there a heart so cold that it does not feel the pathos of this report, and sense the sentiment of this family's tragedy? At the same time, this is not a tragedy in the classic sense. The love of Richard and Rowena and Arno Pet transcends tragedy. That is why The Times published this report, and why it stays with you so long after you read it.

Of course, for the Christian there is far more to this story. In the story of Arno Pet we find a picture of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. As the Apostle Paul wrote to the Galatians:

But when the fullness of time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a virgin, born under the Law, so that He might redeem those who were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption as sons. Because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying "Abba! Father!" Therefore you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir through God. [Galatians 4:4-7]

Adoption is perhaps the most powerful depiction of the Gospel found in the Bible. We are all orphans, born under the curse of sin. By the sheer grace and mercy of God, those who come to faith in the Lord Jesus Christ are adopted as sons. Redeemed sinners are adopted as sons "through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will, to the praise and glory of His grace, which He freely bestowed on us in the Beloved." [Ephesians 1:5-6]

Arno Pet began life as an orphan, but he ended life as a son. He was abandoned at his birth, but he died in the arms of his parents. He did not die as Arno, he died as Arno Pet.

In the rubble of the Hotel Villa Therese the film crew found the bodies of Richard and Rowena and Arno Pet. In that same rubble, we find a picture of the Gospel of Christ. He who has eyes to see, let him see.

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All I can say is "WOW, WOW"!!!

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Another Happy Beginning...

My husband and I had just begun to consider adoption when we met with Courtney and Emory at their home in May of 2009. We had all kinds of questions about the adoption process that at the time seemed a daunting one. Daniel and I had known Emory and his family for years, but it was my first time meeting Courtney. I instantly felt comfortable with her and could tell right away that we would feel completely at ease having them work on our behalf. We left that evening inspired. Because we were in the midst of moving to a different state, we knew it would be a couple of months before we were settled enough to start the process. I contacted Courtney the last week of August and told her we were ready to begin. At the same time we started our home study process. Within a week Courtney began contacting me possibilities for different situations. She made the whole process seem very natural and provided tons of support and helpful advice through our many phone conversations and emails even taking time to call me via phone and skype while she was on an overseas mission trip. I always knew that if I called her she would be there or call me back quickly. A short 6 and a half weeks after beginning the adoption process we were holding our son John Mark, whom we’d only found out about 48 hours prior to. Every adoption has a unique story of how circumstances seemingly fall into place, God’s plan unfolds and a new family is formed. We are so thankful that Faithful Adoption Consultants were a part of his plan for our son’s adoption.

Love,
Dani