June 8th- A Very Happy Day For Us!

This is a special day for us in many ways. In October of 2007 we first saw this little guy's face on a special needs list. His smile captured me immediately. Every day I would gaze at his picture and wonder if he was to be a part of our family. Oh how we prayed over this little fellow and finally in January of 2008 we began the process to bring him home. All went along well, we finished up our paper work, sent it off to China and waited, feeling confident that we would soon have him in our arms. Then in May we got devastating news...our adoption had been denied. We were told that the CCAA would not allow us to bring this precious boy home because of changes in their policy and my medical history of cancer. Our hearts were broken. I cried a river of tears and turned to my only comfort during that time...God's word. Mark 11:24 sustained me through those long days. "Therefore, I tell you, all the things you pray for-believe that you have received them, and you will have them." I prayed this continually and we waited and waited for four looooooong weeks. During this time our wonderful agency, Christian World Adoption was in China advocating on our behalf before the CCAA. Not once, but three times they went before them and pleaded for us to be able to bring this child home. And finally on June 8th, 2008 we got the best news ever...we were going to China to bring Zhu Jun Feng home! Our hearts were overjoyed. And we know without a doubt that God was in control of all that happened. You see we decided that this child's name would be Emanuiel for two very special reasons; Emanuiel means, God with us, and we knew that if we were doing another adoption only 6 months after Clara Beth's that He would certainly HAVE to be with us. Emanuiel was also my father's name(that's why the spelling is so unusual) and June 8th, the day we found out we would bring him home was my Father's birthday! God is so Good! Precious first pictures of Emanuiel.

Updated pictures we received after accepting his file.

Loving that little face!

In this picture his personality just shines through!

Our little fellow now. This little guy is so full of life. I am so blessed to be the one that he calls mommy!

Until next time...

Remember God's words:

"I will not leave you as orphans; I am coming to you"

John 14:18

Robin

There are many children that are still waiting on Christian World Adoption's Hope Project list. Go over and take a look, one of them may be your child.