We first began considering adoption from China in the mid-1990s, after we saw a documentary on the Chinese policy of only one child. We had our first biological child in 1985, and as our family grew in size, we continued to think about it. Four children later, with our oldest in college and our youngest in sixth grade, we felt God leading us to adopt a child, and attended an adoption seminar in April of 2005. We prayed about it, and had our children do the same. Finally, in May of 2005, our whole family, made the prayerful decision that we should adopt from China. We applied to America World Adoption Agency, the same one used by Mary Beth and Steven Curtis Chapman to adopt their three Chinese children. We received our acceptance letter from AWAA
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