Williams family adoption journey: Where it all began...

"Once our eyes are opened, we can't pretend we don't know what to do. God, who weighs our hearts and keeps our souls, knows that we know, and holds us responsible to act."

"Do not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bring your children from the east and gather you from the west. I will say to the north, "Give them up!" and to the south, "Do not hold them back." Bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the ends of the earth" Isaiah 43:5-6

"Remember those…who are mistreated as if you yourselves were suffering." (Hebrews 13:3)

"Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves…defend the rights of the needy." (Proverbs 31:8,9)

"The King will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.'" Matthew 25:40

This is our journal to rescue an orphan with Down syndrome who lives in an orphanage in Eastern Europe. Anna was left at the hospital by her parents, who refused to take her home because she was born with Down syndrome. In Anna's country people with disabilities are looked down upon and are typically hidden away in orphanages from birth and their outlook for life is not very good. Once the orphan turns 4-6 depending on the region they live in, they are then transferred from the orphanage to mental institutions or insane asylums. Our family desperately wants to make Anna our daughter before she is transferred as she is already 5 years old. We will love her and give her the family that she deserves and give her a future full of hope, despite her disability. When our family stepped out in faith and committed to adopt Anna we didn't have the money that it would take to get her here. God has worked miracles in so many aspects of our adoption. The biggest miracle is that I have had faith all alone that God would send the money we needed to adopt Anna. Through many answered prayers, God made sure we had every penny we needed to make her our daughter!

Thursday, December 9, 2010

Where it all began...

This is where it all began~

I never, ever dreamed back in August of 1999

That Mike and I would be in the process

of adopting a sweet little girl

with Down syndrome.

When Ashlyn was born we thought

that we had lost our dream of the little girl

we were supposed to have.
(Didn't last long! She's a treasure to us)

Never in a million years would we have thought

we would be fighting so hard

in 2010

to add another little girl just like Ashlyn

to our family.

Thank you God for planting that seed in our hearts way back in 1999.

Thank you God for making a way for us to go and get our other little girl

who is waiting for us in Eastern Europe.

3 comments:

Julia said...: Second blog in a row that left me a puddle on the floor.... THAT WAS SO PRECIOUS - THANK YOU FOR SHARING! Oh Dear Lord - you gave treasures so more can be found!; December 9, 2010 at 1:43 PM
Ilze Lachkaya said...: She is beautiful.
Can you please post rour fundraising on this site:
http://rrbuttons.blogspot.com/p/family-fundraisers.html
I placed this site on my Facebook page.
God bless you!; December 9, 2010 at 3:19 PM
Carol Miller said...: Oh my word! First of all-how precious! Second of all-I vow never to have finger paint in my class :); December 10, 2010 at 7:32 PM