God At Work

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2010
God at work
God at Work…. An amazing story!

Yesterday, I met with friends/clients to discuss a 10 year giving plan. Since August 2008 they have been looking into adoption. In January 2009 they decided to go through the South Carolina Department of Social Services (DSS). They have seen and heard stories of many children in our state that do not have a stable, permanent home with a loving family to care for them. For many months they have been waiting on a call from DSS with a child. They spoke with their case worker about their greatest needs exists. The case worker said that they needed more foster families. She encouraged them to contact Miracle Hill Ministries regarding their fostering programs, which they did the following Monday.

In the words of the adopting mother:

“Meanwhile, I was cleaning our church building when a friend of mine from another church called me about a "crazy situation". She had friends of hers who had to move to Shanghai, China for work. They had met the couple (the woman is Chinese, the man is a US citizen) the previous weekend. The couple had recently found out their unborn child was diagnosed with Down's syndrome after she had an amniocentesis. They were planning on having an abortion on Monday. My friend's friend was able to talk with them about considering adoption rather than aborting the baby. Meanwhile she was frantically trying to find a family that might consider taking their baby. When she called our friend, our friend in turn called us. We were excited and willing to adopt this child. After the couple found out there was a US family willing to take the child, they did not go through with the abortion. We have started the legal proceedings to adopt this precious baby! What makes the blessing even more incredible is that even though the baby will be born in China, it will be a US citizen because of the father, so this will be a domestic adoption. We will go to China for his birth and then again when he is medically and legally able to travel. We have already gone through all the steps to adopt domestically, so it will not be as difficult to make this work out! It truly is a situation that only God could orchestrate. Praise be to God for what He has done!!!”
The child will be born in January 2011. A child’s life is saved and placed in the hands of a loving family.

God works in mysterious but miraculous ways.

Instead of having the baby in China the parents came back to the USA and had the baby here.

From an Email on 1/14/2011 midnight.

Hello Dear Friends and Family,


We just wanted to share another amazing climax to the journey God has led us on. Rhonda Littleton, whom many of you know, just called with amazing news. Caleb's birth parents, Ryan and Hidy, accepted Christ today! It is with tears of joy and a completely overwhelmed heart of gratitude and love that we send each of you this e-mail. So many of you have prayed for this with us. We knew God was revealing himself to them, but for some reason, we thought it would take them time, once they got back in China, to accept God's salvation through Jesus. I don't know why after all we have seen God do, that we would think He would delay on their salvation!

To make everything even more amazing, they want to be baptized before they leave on Sunday! We are e-mailing each of you to pray for and rejoice in this decision that they have made. We, also, would like to surround them with as much love and support as possible for their baptism service. Plans are not confirmed, but it looks like they will be baptized at Simpsonville First Baptist during their Saturday 5pm prayer service. If any of you could possibly be a part of this celebration, it would mean the world to us and them. We will let you all know for sure of the details as they are confirmed tomorrow, but we just could not wait to tell everyone! God has so much in store for ALL of us. Let us never doubt what He can do if we just make ourselves available and obedient- He will do the rest!

In His Love and Joy,