Advocates in Xiamen: Part 2!
AGCI staff and a team of advocates have arrived in Xiamen, China! Our team is working to upgrade the baby and toddler floor at our parter home with new bedding, murals, and fun extras to transform the space for 84 orphans! AGCI team member, Kate McDodson, sent us the report below: Day 2 of painting […]
A Family For Levi
UPDATE: We are so excited to share that Levi has found his forever family! To learn about other children still waiting for their forever family, visit our international adoption photolistings. We met Levi at one of our partnership orphanages in China in July of 2013 and have grown to love him! He is a very sweet […]
A Week In The Life: My Daughter Has Cerebral Palsy
By Joy Kobylka, adoptive mom When I first saw her picture, she was sitting on a red riding car and her smile lit up the screen and I fell a little bit in love. Then I saw her diagnosis of cerebral palsy and thought that there was no way we could handle that level of […]
A Story of Hope: What It’s Really Like to Adopt a Child With Cerebral Palsy
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.” Proverbs 3:5 Cerebral palsy can feel like a scary diagnosis. On paper, CP can feel like too much to handle, but when it’s your child, it’s “beautiful,” as Quinn Mulvany put it. So, what’s it really like to adopt […]
A Prayer For Josiah
Prayer is powerful. We’re asking our AGCI community to lift up one of our families, the Scholes, in prayer. Below is a note written by Eleshia Scholes, adoptive mom to sweet Josiah. Josiah has spent the last 5 weeks in the hospital following heart surgery. Tomorrow, we will be 5 weeks post op from Josiah’s […]
God Had A Child For Us
The Kobylkas had always planned to adopt. “I knew I wanted to adopt when I was a kid,” Joy Kobylka said. “My husband knew from the beginning that this was important to me and it’s something we always planned on doing.” When their second biological child turned two, Joy and Justin decided they were ready […]
They’ve Been There
It started with an e-mail. We Need Families. Julie and James Forrest had adopted through All God’s Children before, when they brought home, Judah, their son from Ethiopia. But when James brought up adopting again, Julie wasn’t convinced they were ready to go down that road a second time. “Adoption is hard. There are a […]
Protected: Waiting For His Family
China Part 7: How We Advocate
AGCI just returned from China! Our team just returned from a two-week stay in China. Thank you for following our posts about our journey and how we’re advocating for China’s orphans! From Tiffany Williams, China Program Director, 9/25/15 Fuzhou and Jiao Cheng On Monday morning Kiersten, Lilian and I headed back to the Zhangzhou orphanage. […]
China Part 6: A Weekend in Longyan and Zhangzhou
AGCI just returned from China! Our team just returned from a two-week stay in China. Continue following our posts and learn more about how we’re advocating for China’s orphans! From Tiffany Williams, China Program Director, 9/21/15 We spent the night at a hotel in Longyan on Friday night, and then on Saturday we took time […]
China Part 5: AGCI in Longyan
AGCI is in China! Our team is just wrapping up their second week in China. Continue following our posts and learn more about how we’re advocating for China’s orphans! From Tiffany Williams, China Program Director, 9/20/15 On Friday, our team (and Lilian) packed up our suitcases, said goodbye to Xiamen, and headed by van to […]
China Part 4: The Children of Xiamen
AGCI is in China! Our team is just beginning their second week in China. Continue following our posts over the next week and learn more about how we’re advocating for China’s orphans! From Tiffany Williams, China Program Director, 9/18/15 Hi Team! On Thursday morning we headed over to the orphanage and Kiersten joined the Xiamen […]
