One thing that also pushed us to adopt was seeing the roadsigns God put up leading us in that direction.
In August 2005, after Jackie had spent a lot of time on the Internet looking up information about adoption, she thought that the name of the current president of FCC/Atlanta (Families with Children from China) looked familiar. Years before, while teaching at Duluth Junior Academy, she had taught this lady’s step-daughter. The girl was primarily living with her mother, so Jackie and the other parent had only met a few times, but Jackie still remembered the name. “What was the chance,” she wondered, “that she was looking at adopting from China when the president of the local chapter of FCC was someone she knew?”
Jackie called her. They couldn’t talk long right then, but this lady—let’s call her R—was nice enough to call Jackie back, and they talked for a long time. R gave us some great advice, and she encouraged us in our adoption. She also encouraged us to join FCCA (more about that later) and offered to mentor us.
Finding R also helped us realize that God had a plan for our family. It had taken us a while to find it, but we felt encouraged that adopting from China was the right path for us to travel to make us a family.
