Bringing Nathanael Home

Now that I have this blog up, I wanted to add a few post as background information to Nathanael’s adoption:

Jackie and I had contemplated adoption for a few years. Even prior to building our house in 2007, we had contemplated adopting a third child. Around mid-November, 2009, Jackie had called the AAC adoption agency about a child that she had seen on Rainbow kids. The girl she had called on was not available for adoption, but Regina (AAC) started talking about the boys that the agency had papers on and encouraged Jackie to look further at their waiting child list. We decided to get information on the boy that they had named Gavin. Gavin was a healthy boy with hand and feet differences. Jackie and I were on the fence with the big decision to bring him into our family. On Thanksgiving Day our pastor gave a sermon that we both believe was God’s way of talking to us about this decision. The sermon spoke of a lady on the island of Tobago with missing nose, ears, lips, fingers & toes. The woman was yearning for the missionary to sing “Count Your Many Blessings”. Needless to say, this woman knew more about God’s blessings than most people. And the message of this woman got us to realize that with all the blessings that God has given us, we should have room in our home & hearts for Gavin. And more than anything that we have learned in our prior adoptions, God does provide for all our needs. So following that day, we started the process of bringing Gavin (we named Nathanael) home.   Craig