Adoptive Parents

A year ago at this time, I felt like the Lord was calling us to be parents...sorta. I felt like he wanted us to parent people who were way past adoption. After the age of 12, the chances of you getting adopted are slim to none. What we are seeing now is people who are brought up without parents. Most of them are missing their dads. Therefore, they might not know how to buy a car, or change the oil in their cars (the girls at least). The guys have questions about their jobs and future careers. One of the main things we can offer is that we get to model a healthy husband and wife relationship for them. Most of them have never seen that.

Just this week, we talked with two more people who have been through some hard times, and they are only 19 years old. Wow, they seem older than 19! These people are wonderful, beautiful, talented people. You would never know that they've had so much to overcome. I'm so proud of all of them! Most of them are clinging to each other and the Lord. Only a couple of them are still going through a wild stage. We continue to pray for them!

There are so many of us, now. I can think of 10 off the top of my head who have had major struggles in the past. Then, there are several others who are here with no family around for miles. Nobody's family lives here. We always seem to have a single person living with us, and I don't mind it at all! Who knew that ministering to young, struggling singles would feel the void of needing friends and a community in my own life?