Pearl is Real

How do you come out and say we NEED help

except to just come right out and say it?


We need help.

We were not looking for Pearl

and really thought when we came home with Mia 

we were done.  We wanted to be done !!!

God had different plans!!!

I had been looking at our agency's special needs list searching for a child for my friend who was interested in adopting.  I found Pearl and two other little girls for HER and asked our agency if they would send me the files so that I could pass them along to HER. Our agency coordinator emailed me back with the other two files, but said that Pearl was already on hold for another family.  I was so glad to hear that a family had stepped out in faith to adopt her.  I thought her heart condition sounded really scary and I was relieved that a family somewhere was willing to go through that journey.  Two weeks later, our coordinator emailed me Pearl's file saying that the "family who had originally accepted her, had to back out.  Would my friend be interested in her file now?"  I don't know if you can understand this if you haven't ever felt God move in your heart, but at that moment, I knew.  I felt that same "catch" in my heart that I had felt two times before.  I ignored it.  I sent the file on to my friend who was still looking.  Pearl's age and her special need was not the right fit for their family.  So I sat with Pearl's file on my computer for almost a week.  I sent it to everyone I could think of who might be willing to adopt.  I ask people to pray that God would speak to her family.  Her file always came back to us.  And then, Bobby and I, in a time of total surrender to God's plan for our lives, accepted his calling to be Pearl's family.

There were and are many reasons why we could have said no...

in the world's view it didn't make sense to adopt again~

Mainly.....

there is no extra money with two adoptions and medical expenses from Mia's dental surgeries and pending surgeries.
There is no extra money when you have five children.

Many people would say that should tell you something right there,

but how do you tell God no?

We just couldn't.

And we couldn't live knowing God had a daughter for us in China

and we left her there.

All we know for sure is that Pearl is real. 

She is not just a grainy picture.  

She is not just a waiting child on a list.  

She is not just one of 143 million.  

She is a little girl.  Who needs love.  Just love.

We have that to give....

We know and believe it is God's will

no matter how ridiculous it seems to us and others.

This little precious girl needs a forever family

God placed her in our lives and in our hearts.
We will walk in faith.
Even when it doesn't make sense.

SO as hard as it is, we are asking for help...

1. Please pray for us and the provision we need to get to Pearl and bring her home.

2. Maybe you don't feel the call to go and adopt but want to help us,

we would appreciate a donation by clicking our Donate button! (located on the top right of this blog.)

3. Maybe you have ideas for fundraising we haven't thought of~
4.  If you have a blog - please post our story on your blog 
and grab the donate button as well.

Will you pray about a way you can help???

When we finally accepted this call for Pearl,

we both said it will take a God sized miracle for us to adopt her.  
We have already seen him work in miraculous ways.
Won't you be a part of this miracle???

It our prayer that God bless you all

with every good and perfect gift from above!!!

(James 1:17)

Ephesians 3:20-21

Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine,

according to His power that is at work within us,

to Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations,

for ever and ever! Amen.