Hello to everyone who will be reading this blog. As you know, Brittany and I are expecting another child! No, we aren't pregnant... we are adopting!!
Here are my (Drew's) thoughts.
Jesus call us to love one another. To love each other as Christ loves us. For years I've thought about adopting and how I view it as a ministry for my family. The Bible talks about being compassionate about orphans.
He ensures that orphans and widows receive justice. He shows love to the foreigners living among you and gives them food and clothing. (Deuteronomy 10:18)
Learn to do good.Seek justice.Help the oppressed.Defend the cause of orphans.Fight for the rights of widows. (Isaiah 1:17)
Brittany and I both have prayed about this and we feel a calling to bring other children into our home and make them ours, to provide for their needs and bring them up to know and love God. We have brought into this decision Bethany Christian Services a Christian adoption agency that works primarily with international adoption. Our decision to adopt internationally comes from both of us have experience with over seas short term mission trips, and our hearts are being tugged in a spiritual way when we think about kids who are orphans from all over the globe who are without parents because of sickness, poverty and war. God loves these children, and they are made in his image! It does not matter to us if they are white or black, or any color in between. God made ALL of us in his image. All this culminated into many conversations between Brittany and I, and I always thought in the back of my mind that we would wait until we had $30,000 sitting around. realistically that would probably be never, and my little brain was putting limitations on God by thinking I had to do all the prep work and get everything organized. Then, while talking to Brittany, I was reminded that faith comes through believing an not through doing all the work myself.
So... thats alot of scattered thoughts jumbled into one paragraph. I have decided that God is the one in control of everything, and I also feel called by God to adopt. To me, 1+1 will always equal 2 so i have decided that we are starting this process and are trusting God to provide the means for this adoption to happen. We are trusting God and believing that He will provide for us. I do not take this lightly! I am not just sitting on my butt thinking I can just sit lazily and wait for everything to be given to me, but I am striving forward with Brittany knowing that God is in control and that we will do whatever God wants us to do.
