One of the great perks of maintaining this blog is the opportunity to publicly welcome home children to their forever families. The Bratloff family is no exception. We had the pleasure of meeting this sweet family back in 2009 during our churches annual Missions and Ministry Fair while we were waiting to bring our son, LJ home from China. During the next few months, we had the opportunity to meet with them again to share our adoption experience and to help answer their questions about the adoption process. As passionate advocates for the world's waiting, special needs children, you can imagine our joy when they soon informed us that they had placed an application to bring home a special needs child from The People's Republic of China. With so many waiting children around the world and so many families pursuing "healthy, infant girl" adoptions, this news was in my book, nothing short of a small victory.Having said that, it is with immense pleasure that we join Carey, Nadalie and Hayden Bratloff in welcoming their absolutely ADORABLE new son, Luke, into their family. Thank you for stepping out in faith and for providing such a beautiful example for the rest of us. WELCOME HOME, LUKE!
Welcome home, Luke! Thanks for sharing, Nancy. As always, your posts give me just the reality check I often need. Thanks for putting faces to the mission.
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