Denise Harris Hoppenhauer

    Whether reading a book, surfing the web or simply sitting by the pool watching my children; every single day, I am reminded that adoption is part of God’s plan. In order to better serve those experiencing crisis pregnancies, abandoned children, couples with fertility issues, or preferential adopters, we must first recognize that adoption is a natural process and part of God’s plan. The correlation of physical and spiritual adoption can not be overlooked. After all, we are adopted by God.

Adoption is not always an easy or inexpensive process. It is a great lesson in faith and patience and at times circumstances may make it difficult to remember and understand that God has a plan for each of us. But the Blessings of adoption are tenfold.

With the exception of children orphaned by HIV, most orphaned children who need adoptive families are social orphans. They have been abandoned, removed from their homes due to abuse or neglect, or placed in orphanages because their parents can not provide for their basic needs. In its simplest terms, adoption saves the lives of children.

Adoption, infertility, and caring for orphaned children are complex issues that families must prayerfully consider.  We can visibly see the many blessings of adoption: children adopted from the United States, Asia, Africa, Guatemala, Russia, and Foster Care. These children are living examples of our faith and part of God’s plan. 

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Infertility and Adoption

At some point prospective adoptive parents will have to bridge the gap from infertility to adoption by acknowledging and accepting infertility.  This requires couples to move away from the idea of having a biological child as the way to become parents to focusing on the end result; which is still being a parent, but by the use of a different means: by adoption.