Support the Quinn Fund Today

Our son now has a fund in his name to help other families adopt. His fund has helped numerous families adopt since 2008.

Donate today so a child can have a family! Choose "Quinn Fund" under "designations" on the link below:


https://donate.bucknerfoundation.org/SSLPage.aspx?pid=4806&frcrld=1

Thoughts on Adopting a Waiting Child

When my wife and I first discussed the idea of adopting a child on the waiting child list I have to admit I was a little nervous. With two girls in the family already, everything had to be considered and thought through including the living arrangements, cost of care, our ability to emotionally handle whatever circumstances might arise, and most importantly, could we give the child the chance in life they would truly need? Was God really asking us to consider this option? Were we just being impatient? The bottom line was we knew we wanted to grow our family via adoption and we also knew that if we had a biological child born with medical challenges it would not change anything. Every child deserves a family and deserves to be loved. Even so, we knew we had to be honest with ourselves and make sure that if we adopted a child on the waiting child list that it was truly because 1). We believed we could provide this particular child the kind of home he/she deserved and 2). That we had a sense in our hearts that this child was supposed to be “one of us”.

What helped us process these concerns, questions and considerations was meeting with our social worker to discuss the waiting child list. We worked through a medical condition worksheet that forced us to be real about what challenges we felt would work within our family. It was a very hard process because it went against every fiber of our being to say in a sense that “a child with this or that condition” could be cared for better by someone else. However, it helped us narrow down what conditions and circumstances we could give the proper love to. After our social worker left we had a total peace about what was in front of us and began looking almost daily at the waiting child listings. We knew it would be clear to us which child was supposed to be our child.

The day we saw our son for the first time on the webpage I literally broke down in tears as did my wife. She found him first and sent me an instant message at work. I logged in and she did not even have to point him out to me. As soon as I saw his face I knew which child she would direct me to. I saved an image of that webpage that day and still cherish it over two years later. Just four months later we traveled to Korea and brought him home and it has been truly amazing. He has taught us how to be more loving, less self-centered and the joy of life itself. He has a constant smile on his face and is known as “Mr. Smiley”.

Close friends are always telling us, “It’s like he was always a part of your family” or “I cannot imagine your family without him.”

He is a perfect fit for us and our lives would truly be incomplete without him.

Now we are praying about doing it again!

ChildLink Story about Our Little Quinny

Our son was featured in the recent ChildLink newsletter published by Dillon.

http://www.dillonadopt.com/PDFs/CL-archive/FINAL%20ChildLInk%20Newsletter%202-10%20REV.pdf

Great Adoption Resource

This is a great place to start in terms of learning all about adoption. We read this front to back more than once!

One of the Best Artilces About God & Adoption Ever

This is so insightful...


http://romanseightfifteen.blogspot.com/2010/03/meant-to-be.html

Feedback From Dillon About Haiti

Love your blog and really appreciated your mentioning Dillon and our Haiti program. However, I hope you don’t mind my contacting you to clarify your understanding of the current Haiti orphan situation. Dillon has been greatly overwhelmed with calls and inquiries over the past week since the earthquake with families interested in adopting from Haiti. We have been so overwhelmed that we created the screening form so that families could place their name on a waiting list to be contacted later when adoptions from Haiti might resume. Unfortunately, we don’t know when that might take place or if the requirements to adopt from Haiti might even be relaxed so that more families might qualify to adopt.

The reality about the Haitian orphans who are entering the US right now, which the media is not clearly stating, is that these children already have adoptive families. These children had already been identified as orphans and had been matched with a family in the US prior to the earthquake. However, children who may have been orphaned because of the earthquake won’t become available for international adoption for at least 1-2 years as every effort will be made to first locate a family member within Haiti to care for these children.

Would you mind joining us in educating families about the true realities about Haiti’s orphans and what families can realistically do to help?

· Families can donate through Dillon to assist Gladys in caring for the children who she has taken in as a result of the earthquake along with the children who were already in her care

· Families can donate to another charitable organization of their choice.

· Families can also consider our other country programs where there are many other children available for adoption who have also been orphaned because of some type of “earthquake-tsunami-trauma” in their lives.

· Families can pray for comfort and healing for the Haitian children who have been traumatized by this tragedy and pray that they will be reunited with family members quickly.

· Families can place their name on our waiting list if their heart is really set on adopting from Haiti with no guarantee of when they will be able to begin the process to bring a child home.

We so appreciate your concern for all children suffering in the world and support of our work to make a difference in their lives. We hope you will join us in encouraging families to look at all of their options that are available to help the children affected by the Haiti earthquake.

Little Cadine

Little Cadine is only a baby. Her mother and father admire her with pride. Her cute little smile, and her smooth, silky skin sheen with the hope of tomorrow.

Yet, in the twinkle of an eye she became an orphan. Now little Cadine lays on an old mattress crying out for mommy and daddy to come home.

The sad truth is the recent Haitian earthquake has taken the lives of thousands of men, women and children, forever shattering the landscape of the Haitian people. Life will never be the same and for thousands of sweet little girls and boys their parents will never return.

Can you imagine a child not having someone to call “mommy” or “daddy”? Pause a moment from eating that bowl of cookies-n-crème, turn on CNN and that reality will be right in front of your content eyeballs.

The greatest joy in life is giving, and no greater love is this; than laying down your life (as you know it now) for another. A decision you make today could change the lives of one of these orphans forever.

Consider adopting now.

Speaking from personal experience, adopting a child is one of the greatest thrills imaginable. It stretches your faith beyond all limitations, teaches you the truth about sacrifice, and fills your soul with an amazing sense of significance.

God does something magical in your life when you decide to provide an orphan a lifetime of love. You will sense His presence, His favor and His hand in your life like never before. You only live once! Are you really ready to miss out on doing something beyond your own little world? Adopting doesn’t “change” your life. It only makes it better!

You can change and bless a little Cadine today. Orphans by the thousands are arriving in the States daily. They deserve and need a family and it might very well be YOU that God is calling to do so.

People often say this to us about our son, “Ahh, he is blessed to have you!”

Our response is always the same – “No, trust me. We are the one’s that are blessed to have him!”

Contact Dillon International today!

http://www.dillonadopt.com/Haiti_screen.htm

“Mordecai had a cousin named Hadassah, whom he had brought up because she had neither father nor mother. This girl, who was also known as Esther, was lovely in form and features, and Mordecai had taken her as his own daughter when her father and mother died.” Esther 2:7


ADAPTED FROM: http://www.nobonesaboutit.blogspot.com/