James 1:27
"Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this:to look after widows and orphans in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world."
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Our Journey,
Psalm 127:3 "Children are a gift from the Lord, they are his reward".
Psalm 127:3 "Children are a gift from the Lord, they are his reward".
The Journey to being parents was not always easy for my husband and I. Looking back 15 years ago I can now see the treasures that God had in store for us as a family. We were married at the age of 22 and 19 and one of our many goals and dreams as a young couple was to have a large family and a home filled with little children.
Much to our surprise things did not work out as we had planned. We struggled with infertility for 4 long years , the odd thing was the doctors could not find any medical reasons for our infertility, which made it even harder to cope with not knowing how to "fix" the problem.
As time and years went by "I", decided to adopt, but there was just one problem, my husband was not on the same page with me about adoption. The best thing I knew to do was to pray and ask God to change my husbands heart and heal mine from the pain of being childless. God did just that! After many sleepless nights filled with tears and sadness we were finally ready to admit we had a problem and we needed God to "fix" it.
The very next day after "we" decided to adopt we received a call from a local hospital. We were shocked because we had not told anybody but God that we wanted to adopt! Even though this situation was not the child for us the journey began that day to having the family that we had always dreamed of.
As the months went by we received several calls about prospective adoptions that never transpired. We still felt like God was directing us towards adoption. As time progressed we decided to send an application to some missionaries in Taiwan that our minister had told us about, not really thinking that anything would transpire considering it was so far away. We found ourselves praying more diligently and even waking in the night to pray on behalf of our baby that we had named "Sarah" as well as her birth mother. A total of nine months had passed and one late evening our phone rang! Tron answered the phone it was the missionary from Taiwan," we have a 10 day old baby girl for you would you be interested"? "What would you like to name her?" he said to my husband, as soon as I heard my husband say our baby name, Sarah Elizabeth to the person on the other end of the phone I jumped out of bed and said," is that Taiwan?" I was so, so excited and very scared that it wouldn't work out. Well as you can see in the picture below a lot of thing have happened in the Peterson family.
Three years after our first adoption the doctors "fixed" the medical problem and seven years after being married we had our first son and then 22 months later our second son and then23 months later our third son was born. After four more years of unknown infertility we once again( with the nudging of our Taiwanese daughter insisting that she needed a sister and someone that looked like her ) started to pursue another Asian adoption. Out of faith, once again we felt lead to began to praying for a special needs baby named "Selah Grace".
We as a family stared to pray for our precious baby Selah by name and for her birth mother as well. On January the 27th were received a call from our agency and they said that there contract was not renewed by the country we were pursuing to adopt from. They said to check out this other agency and look at their Korean program. We called the agency and told them about the situation and that we had a desire to adopt a special needs baby. The lady on the other end said,"sorry we don't have any babies like that right now", and then she asked to put me on hold, after about 2 minutes she came back on the line to let me know that they had just received a medical file of a 5 month old baby girl that fit the description of our desired child. Wow!! I could not believe what I was hearing, God was opening a very big door to our baby Selah! To make a long story short we received a medical referral 2 minutes after contacting an agency(www.aacadoption.com), and we had our gotcha day 5 months after that call! Our baby Selah was born in Seoul South Korea. Selah was born with 3 birth defects, a heart murmur, which has been repaired, one kidney that is healthy and she was miss diagnosed with a syndrome called DiGeorge syndrome. I guess that you can say that our special needs baby no longer has any special needs! All glory and praise go to the Lord of Lord's and the King of Kings our father God!
Dear Lord Jesus~ Thank you for seeing us through all of our children, may we be able to help families as they seek to find your will for their lives~ Amen
Much to our surprise things did not work out as we had planned. We struggled with infertility for 4 long years , the odd thing was the doctors could not find any medical reasons for our infertility, which made it even harder to cope with not knowing how to "fix" the problem.
As time and years went by "I", decided to adopt, but there was just one problem, my husband was not on the same page with me about adoption. The best thing I knew to do was to pray and ask God to change my husbands heart and heal mine from the pain of being childless. God did just that! After many sleepless nights filled with tears and sadness we were finally ready to admit we had a problem and we needed God to "fix" it.
The very next day after "we" decided to adopt we received a call from a local hospital. We were shocked because we had not told anybody but God that we wanted to adopt! Even though this situation was not the child for us the journey began that day to having the family that we had always dreamed of.
As the months went by we received several calls about prospective adoptions that never transpired. We still felt like God was directing us towards adoption. As time progressed we decided to send an application to some missionaries in Taiwan that our minister had told us about, not really thinking that anything would transpire considering it was so far away. We found ourselves praying more diligently and even waking in the night to pray on behalf of our baby that we had named "Sarah" as well as her birth mother. A total of nine months had passed and one late evening our phone rang! Tron answered the phone it was the missionary from Taiwan," we have a 10 day old baby girl for you would you be interested"? "What would you like to name her?" he said to my husband, as soon as I heard my husband say our baby name, Sarah Elizabeth to the person on the other end of the phone I jumped out of bed and said," is that Taiwan?" I was so, so excited and very scared that it wouldn't work out. Well as you can see in the picture below a lot of thing have happened in the Peterson family.
Three years after our first adoption the doctors "fixed" the medical problem and seven years after being married we had our first son and then 22 months later our second son and then23 months later our third son was born. After four more years of unknown infertility we once again( with the nudging of our Taiwanese daughter insisting that she needed a sister and someone that looked like her ) started to pursue another Asian adoption. Out of faith, once again we felt lead to began to praying for a special needs baby named "Selah Grace".
We as a family stared to pray for our precious baby Selah by name and for her birth mother as well. On January the 27th were received a call from our agency and they said that there contract was not renewed by the country we were pursuing to adopt from. They said to check out this other agency and look at their Korean program. We called the agency and told them about the situation and that we had a desire to adopt a special needs baby. The lady on the other end said,"sorry we don't have any babies like that right now", and then she asked to put me on hold, after about 2 minutes she came back on the line to let me know that they had just received a medical file of a 5 month old baby girl that fit the description of our desired child. Wow!! I could not believe what I was hearing, God was opening a very big door to our baby Selah! To make a long story short we received a medical referral 2 minutes after contacting an agency(www.aacadoption.com), and we had our gotcha day 5 months after that call! Our baby Selah was born in Seoul South Korea. Selah was born with 3 birth defects, a heart murmur, which has been repaired, one kidney that is healthy and she was miss diagnosed with a syndrome called DiGeorge syndrome. I guess that you can say that our special needs baby no longer has any special needs! All glory and praise go to the Lord of Lord's and the King of Kings our father God!
Dear Lord Jesus~ Thank you for seeing us through all of our children, may we be able to help families as they seek to find your will for their lives~ Amen
Our Journey to Selah
Agencies we used to do our Korean Adoption.
