Adoption

Below is an email that we sent to our church family yesterday.  Please read and join us in praying! 

 

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Dear Church Family,

 

Once again our family is in need of prayer. As most of you know, Tandon and I have always planned on adopting at some point in the future. We never really knew what exactly that might look like for our family and had hoped to add a couple more biological children to the picture first. However, when God took our baby in February we began praying about and discussing adoption once more.

 

Over the last few weeks we have been researching adoption agencies trying to determine the best fit for our family. We had come to the conclusion that we would pursue domestic infant adoption. When we contacted two different agencies, we were told by both that they are not taking new applications at this time for domestic adoption because there are so many families waiting for infants.

 

Wednesday afternoon we received a phone call from a friend who knew of our desire to adopt. A healthy 3 week old baby girl has been abandoned by her mother and is in the care of a distant relative. The birth mother is no longer able to care for the infant and the relative does not want her long term and is looking for a family that would be willing to adopt the baby.

 

The relative was contacted yesterday regarding our interest in the baby. She was relieved and thrilled to hear about us. She is going to give the birth mother a week to get her act together--which based on what we know of the situation is unlikely. After that time--if all the many details fall into place--we will bring the little girl into our home.

 

Please pray that the mother would willingly choose to put her baby up for adoption so that child protective services does not have to be called into the situation.

 

Please also pray for the safety of the baby girl!

 

Please pray that we would be able to guard our hearts from getting attached too early--as parental rights have not been signed away yet.

 

And finally pray that we would be able to trust God's sovereignty throughout this entire situation.

 

Thanks for your prayers!

Shawn and Tandon