Friday, June 08, 2007
Decision Made
I am very saddened to post right now but I wanted to let everyone following our journey the last month know the outcome of the committees decision. Jin Yu Man (Jenna) has been placed with another family. I believe the committee sought after God's will and did their best to place each child in the family they felt God had chosen for them. Thank you so much for your prayer support and friendship. We are blessed to have such wonderful friends!! (I am going to remove the pictures)
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Alisa, So sorry to hear. Hang in there. God has a plan and while it is hard to wait right now, know that He already knows Genei and is holding her close. Praying you hear something soon.
So sorry to hear about this.Its very hard when your heart has been taken...
Hi Alisha. I am so sorry about not getting matched with Jenna. My husband and I are also pursuing adoption through AHH and have "applied" for special needs children during the same round. I completely understand the sadness that comes with this process. Blessings to you and your family as you wait and wait and wait...
Carrie
My wife normally follows these blogs, but I was googling and stumbled onto yours. We, too, have a connection to Yu Man. We have 2 biological sons and felt a call to adoption about a year ago. We have been learning and praying about it. We feel strongly that we are to adopt from China and have narrowed our agency search to AHH. We had not begun the actual process yet, because we are in the midst of renovating an older home. Planned to begin late 07 or early 08. We are open to special needs and my wife keeps up with the children on the AHH "special delivery" section. A few days after the most recent list was posted, my wife woke me at 2am to show me Yu Man's picture. (I have a large hemangioma on the front of my neck) We prayed about it and our church family were praying. We decided that we were to pursue her. We had not begun any paperwork at that point, but spoke with Grace at AHH and she told us what we would need to do. We spung into action and lived and breathed it, trying to beat the May deadline. We had the agency application completed late on a Monday night and it was to be mailed the following morning. Tuesday evening, we had our first visit scheduled with a social worker for a home study (a social worker that, of all things, was in the midst of a major renovation project and did not seem concerned about ours!) That Tuesday morning before my wife took the agency app to the post office, she felt that she should take a pregnancy test-- just to be sure (we were NOT trying to have a third biological child). It was positive, so we had to cancel everything. This was difficult, because we really felt that we were to adopt and we really felt a connection with this little girl. It sounds terrible, but we were not all that excited at first. We watched as she was removed from the active list on the agency website, and just had to trust God, that he had better plans for her than what we thought we could do. The story goes on-- We got used to the idea of having a third biological child and transferred our excitement to this new little life that was being formed. A few weeks ago, however, my wife suffered a very bad miscarriage. She was hemoraging bad and went into shock before I could get her to the hospital (we live about 35 minutes away). She had to be admitted overnight and given 2 units of blood. She's home now and pretty well recovered, but it was a scarry day! We are now still hoping to adopt, but are going to pull back and regroup-- we've been emotionally reeling! I still pray for little Yu Man, though. I trust that she will soon be a blessed gift to some awaiting family. I trust that God has a perfect little girl for your family, just waiting to be found!
Alisha,
It's been a while since I've visited blogs ~ I hope you are doing well and enjoying the summer with your boys! Thinking of you and praying for you ~
Blessings,
Pam
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