"God won't let you miss your baby."
It's a truth I've seen over and over and remind families of often. When families are faithful to put their "yes" on the table, it's incredible how God aligns so many details. Marc and Christy's story of how they grew their family through adoption is one of trusting in God's plans, walking by faith, and watching God's faithfulness on full display. It was a joy to watch them celebrate their first of many Mother's and Father's Days in awe of God's goodness.
In 2024, we decided to trust God and applied to an adoption agency that we read about twice over a four-year period in a daily devotional. The agency graciously rejected our application because we weren’t local and they were already at capacity. However, they recommended Christian Adoption Consultants. After praying and gathering ourselves, we applied to CAC and were connected with Susan VanSyckle, who was absolutely phenomenal and perfect for our family. She was so sweet, encouraging, informative, and prayed for us! Susan quickly reached out and talked us through the process and answered all our questions. She was so kind and thorough and was so encouraging with all of our questions. We knew that God is faithful, but this was going to be a front row seat to see Him be faithful in growing our family through adoption. Through our adoption process, God taught us to trust in Him and His amazing faithfulness, patience, how to hear His voice more clearly, and how to persevere in our prayers!
Because the Lord was the one to nudge us to adoption, we knew he was going to be faithful; we just had NO idea how perfect his plan and timing would be. We made the decision to sign on with Christian Adoption Consultants. Susan was amazing in helping us gather the information we needed to get everything together and eventually start applying to agencies. To say there is a lot of paperwork in this process would be an understatement. We felt bogged down at times with all the paperwork we needed to fill out, but the Lord continued to nudge us forward at exactly the right time. For everything, we were continuing to trust in him and practice patience as things were not happening in our timing, but His timing each step of the way. We were filling out paperwork for our first agency and had some questions and concerns about substance exposure. We reached out to Susan, and she was able to talk us through some of our concerns and then so gently say, “God is not going to let you miss your baby.” Wow, that made us stop in our tracks. You know in your mind that God is in control, but to take a step back and trust Him in something so big and personal, now that is a step of faith. We heard this truth loud and clear and checked the boxes we felt led to check and gave the rest to the Lord.
Once we became active with several agencies and started seeing situations, we would pray about each and ask God if we should present or not, reminding ourselves over and over that God was in control of our family. He was not going to allow us to miss what He had for us. Hearing ‘not yet’ each time was not easy, but we kept hearing what Susan said to us “God is not going to allow you to miss your baby” and we kept reminding ourselves of the verse “For I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord” (Jeremiah 29:11). We knew we just needed to be faithful to the God who is so faithful and follow His voice and leading.
One day, we received a situation, but we could not open it on any device. We prayed about it and talked it out, and felt this was the Lord protecting us from something. Two days later, we were contacted by one of our agencies, sharing that an amazing birth mom had chosen us and asked if we were able to accept this match. God is so good, because we were thrilled and honored to be able to accept the match, as we had not been able to open or present to the last situation we saw a couple of days prior. God orchestrated EVERYTHING more perfectly than we could have ever planned on our own. We were matched on the Friday of Mother’s Day weekend, and we signed placement papers on the Saturday of Father’s Day weekend. You know God can do the impossible and is faithful down to the last detail when you read stories in the Bible, but we were awestruck to see how faithful down to the last detail he was through our adoption journey. From the paperwork, to presenting to situations, to the timing of being matched, to the travel, to our son’s amazing and sweet birth mom, to the love and support of our family and friends, and all the people we met along the way, God was in every detail and we could not feel more blessed to have gone through this process. To those of you thinking about adoption, just starting your journey, or in the wait, know that God is with you and writing a perfect story for your family, so don’t be afraid to lean into Him in every step. He is writing a story that will draw you closer to Him along the way and touch others as you share your testimony.
