I think it's harder to start writing a second book than it is to start writing your first book because you know how much time and effort it's going to take! I know that it's time. I've been so blessed to work with a handful of foster care, adoption, and pro-life Ministries in the past few months and I know that I need to continue to champion this cause. Here's where the book is going...
“God is calling us to adopt a little boy from another country.” she stated. I responded with “Has God seen our checking account?”
This is a book about our family’s adoption story. Rather, this is a book from my perspective of God’s story of leading our family to its completion via the miracle of adoption. I am a comedian. I was a Pastor for 20 years. My wife and I got married at 19 and 21, so we’ve really grown up together. We now have 5 children ages 8 to 21. We have lived our lives doing our best to simply follow the leading of God.
Here’s where it started for me.
My wife and I were leading a small group at a growing church in the midwest. I was on staff at a Student Pastor. We had very small children and my wife ran a small in-home daycare. Money was tight, but life was awesome. We owned a small house and purchased our first used minivan.
One night at small group, we were watching a really cheesy video. In this particular video an adult was telling the story of her adoption. They recreated it using actors. In the video you could see her sitting in the orphanage. She was a bit older and doing some chores. A couple came in to adopt a child. She talked about how kind they seemed and that she wished that she would be adopted. The man came over to her and picked her out and asked if she would like to live with them as their daughter. Decades later she is recounting this true story and the incredible impact it has had on her life. Sounds cheesy. Looked cheesy. Completely changed my life. It was at that exact point that God broke my heart for vulnerable children. I had never experienced anything like that personally. I had a great family and I guess I had never considered others not having great families that loved and believed in them. I couldn’t believe it. I had no idea what I could do, but I knew that I needed to let God know that I was willing to do what He wanted.
I cried during that video. I was supposed to lead the discussion and I assume everyone else in the group thought I was an idiot. It was such a cheesy video! I wanted to fly to that county and adopt all of those children. Which is odd, because I had no younger siblings and had no idea how to relate to humans under 12.
Fast forward more than 20 years, and I am now the Director of a Nonprofit that builds large homes for families to foster sibling groups and I travel the country speaking and doing comedy at banquets and fundraisers for all christian pro-life, foster care, and adoption ministries.
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