The "M" Family
Our family was led to adopt by the conviction given by God to provide for the orphaned. We love children and want to do our part to see that every child has the opportunity to be in a family with a mother and father and hear the gospel of Jesus Christ!
Our family has prayerfully considered adoption through the years for several reasons. First, we simply wish to expand our family by lovingly providing a family for a child (or children) in need. We also resonate with the biblical mandate to care for children in need of parents (James 1:27). For as much as God has chosen and loved us, we wish to welcome any child with that same spirit of adoption into the family of God (Matt. 18:5). Furthermore, we wish to provide a Christian environment surrounded by unconditional love and affection with siblings to make memories with and share a common bond. We have a huge heart for children and desire to welcome more as the Lord sees fit.
After interviewing several agencies and adoption attorneys, we happily landed at the law office of Godwin & Horst because of their integrity, excellent communication, organization, and heart for children.
God has increased our faith, expanded our view of Heaven, and grown us closer to one another and to Him through adoption. Furthermore, adopting children has allowed us to tangibly understand the idea of adoption being a horizontal expression of a vertical reality for Christians.
My advice to couples hoping to adopt would be to pray, pray, and pray some more. Seek wise counsel, but not too many opinions. Listen to the still, small voice, not the current cultural view of adoption or children. If God is calling you to adopt, don’t delay. Trust Him to establish your steps, remembering that faith is taking that first step without seeing the full staircase. Surround yourself with Christian case workers, attorneys, etc. and ask yourself why you want to adopt. Adoption does not fill a void or serve as some righteous good work to be fit for Heaven. It is about lovingly providing a home and a permanent commitment to parenting a non-biological child. I would also add that biology is not superior. Do not get hung up on biological being preferred. Sin is sin. Genetics are genetics. A child with a soul is forever.
I believe our family is unique in that we adopted after having 8 biological children. We have adopted 4 times, all through Godwin & Horst. Three were matches with birth mothers, and one was a match through a friend. All our adopted children have Hispanic ethnicity to some degree but fit in perfectly in our Caucasian family. They were all adopted at birth, and our biological children absolutely love and adore their adoptive siblings. I feel so blessed to be “Mommy” to each of them and love them all equally!