This has been a amazing adoption journey not only for us but, my mom and dad as well. Now this is not always heard of so, the four of us are in awe and feel honored to have this moment in time with this birth mom and her son. I want you to read this letter from my mom and dad's perspective (the soon to be grandparents!)
September 22, 2008
Grandparents: Update
September 15th we began providing a home for a single-mom and her 2 yr old. It would be good to mention that there is also a baby on the way. This momma is carrying our future grandchild! That’s right. Rusty & Elisabeth are adopting this momma’s baby.
The story begins with Rusty telling co-workers about wanting to adopt and completing a homestudy with a Kansas Adoption Agency. Acquaintances of the mom heard this story and told him they know of an expectant mom that was looking to make an adoption plan. Time went by and there was a lot of confusion and conflicting communication. Did we mention that this momma speaks no English? In any case, we were hearing things that didn’t make sense. We really didn’t know if this was going to work. Rusty & Elisabeth met with their adoption attorney a couple of times & over the phone, he confirmed that this situation could and does happen legally in the US. That made us feel better and we thought maybe this could really happen. She is about 8 months pregnant now & the baby girl is due November 8th.
August 30th was our first time meeting her when we helped move her to a new residence not far from our home. She had been living with friends but they could no longer have her stay in the apt. because there weren’t enough bedrooms. The friends offered to move to a larger apt so she could remain with them, but momma didn’t want to put them out knowing that this was very costly & they were moving anyway in a couple months. She decided that moving out to live with a female acquaintance would be best for all.
Unfortunately, that living situation didn’t turn out well for her and we saw from the beginning that the best place would be in our own home. We thought that the Lord was confirming this to us since one of the three students living with us was planning on moving out on the 15th. We felt it was truly the Lord when we asked her and she agreed to come.
Her goal in coming to the US was to get rid of medical debts incurred by the 15 year old daughter that has a kidney disease. Employment in the US has provided enough finances to buy medication the daughter needs and to send a little extra to the aunt that is caring for the other children. There are four children; three girls and one boy in Mexico.
Last year a tragic event happened in the life of this mom. Her 16 year old daughter was sold to a man twice her age. She was taken to another state and then was left in care of the man's 60 year old father. Mother was here in the US and about out of her mind; as were the other family members. She was found almost 6 months later, thank the Lord. A woman heard her and stopped to ask why she was crying and then the teen proceeded to tell her the story by slipping her a note with home phone numbers, names and addresses of family members. She was being sexually abused by the 60 year old man at gunpoint during this traumatic episode. The happy ending is that she has been returned home and is now involved in her local christian church serving the Lord. She attends youth group and helps in the youth meetings. Thankfully, this story has a much better ending than most.
During the course of getting to know the birth mom we realized that the 2 year old was needing surgery. Another issue weighing heavily on momma! One of our IHOP Spanish speaking friends came to meet with her & little guy one afternoon to pray. He was due for an appointment the following day. I saw momma after work that evening & she proceeded to tell me the Dr. had given him an exam with a "clean bill of health". He is healed! Nothing wrong with him. We rejoiced in the Lord and gave Him the praise!
We've experienced several things to Praise the Lord about since having them in our home. We've had some very difficult & trying things happen, but have seen the Lord turn those things completely around for His Glory! Beyond all doubt, we have seen the hand of the Lord in each and every situation.
Thanks for reading our story.
Written by: Steve & Silvia Pryor
September 22, 2008
Grandparents: Update
September 15th we began providing a home for a single-mom and her 2 yr old. It would be good to mention that there is also a baby on the way. This momma is carrying our future grandchild! That’s right. Rusty & Elisabeth are adopting this momma’s baby.
The story begins with Rusty telling co-workers about wanting to adopt and completing a homestudy with a Kansas Adoption Agency. Acquaintances of the mom heard this story and told him they know of an expectant mom that was looking to make an adoption plan. Time went by and there was a lot of confusion and conflicting communication. Did we mention that this momma speaks no English? In any case, we were hearing things that didn’t make sense. We really didn’t know if this was going to work. Rusty & Elisabeth met with their adoption attorney a couple of times & over the phone, he confirmed that this situation could and does happen legally in the US. That made us feel better and we thought maybe this could really happen. She is about 8 months pregnant now & the baby girl is due November 8th.
August 30th was our first time meeting her when we helped move her to a new residence not far from our home. She had been living with friends but they could no longer have her stay in the apt. because there weren’t enough bedrooms. The friends offered to move to a larger apt so she could remain with them, but momma didn’t want to put them out knowing that this was very costly & they were moving anyway in a couple months. She decided that moving out to live with a female acquaintance would be best for all.
Unfortunately, that living situation didn’t turn out well for her and we saw from the beginning that the best place would be in our own home. We thought that the Lord was confirming this to us since one of the three students living with us was planning on moving out on the 15th. We felt it was truly the Lord when we asked her and she agreed to come.
Her goal in coming to the US was to get rid of medical debts incurred by the 15 year old daughter that has a kidney disease. Employment in the US has provided enough finances to buy medication the daughter needs and to send a little extra to the aunt that is caring for the other children. There are four children; three girls and one boy in Mexico.
Last year a tragic event happened in the life of this mom. Her 16 year old daughter was sold to a man twice her age. She was taken to another state and then was left in care of the man's 60 year old father. Mother was here in the US and about out of her mind; as were the other family members. She was found almost 6 months later, thank the Lord. A woman heard her and stopped to ask why she was crying and then the teen proceeded to tell her the story by slipping her a note with home phone numbers, names and addresses of family members. She was being sexually abused by the 60 year old man at gunpoint during this traumatic episode. The happy ending is that she has been returned home and is now involved in her local christian church serving the Lord. She attends youth group and helps in the youth meetings. Thankfully, this story has a much better ending than most.
During the course of getting to know the birth mom we realized that the 2 year old was needing surgery. Another issue weighing heavily on momma! One of our IHOP Spanish speaking friends came to meet with her & little guy one afternoon to pray. He was due for an appointment the following day. I saw momma after work that evening & she proceeded to tell me the Dr. had given him an exam with a "clean bill of health". He is healed! Nothing wrong with him. We rejoiced in the Lord and gave Him the praise!
We've experienced several things to Praise the Lord about since having them in our home. We've had some very difficult & trying things happen, but have seen the Lord turn those things completely around for His Glory! Beyond all doubt, we have seen the hand of the Lord in each and every situation.
Thanks for reading our story.
Written by: Steve & Silvia Pryor
