Six years ago in the spring of 2015, my husband and I flew to Taiwan to bring home a sibling group of four children after a 25-month-long adoption process. The time had finally come to travel back to that beautiful island in the Pacific to gather up our children and bring them home! After making some special memories together with our children in Taiwan, we boarded a jumbo jet in Taipei on April 10, 2015 with our four new additions and made the long flight home to Colorado. All of our hard work and waiting was rewarded when we were finally able to bring our Taiwanese treasures home to live with us!
While our journey of adoption has been full of ups and downs, it is also one of the best things that has ever happened to us. We are now a family of nine: mom, dad, three older biological children, and four younger children who came to us through adoption. We thought that our family was complete. We were wrong!
Not long ago, the orphanage in Taiwan contacted us to let us know that our children have a younger biological sibling residing in foster care in Taipei and that he needs a permanent home. They asked us if we would be willing to adopt him into our family, confident that it would be best for him to grow up in our home with his older biological siblings. After four months of faithful prayer and thoughtful consideration, we agreed to proceed with the adoption of this little six-year-old boy.
While we did not have another adoption in our plans, God has shown us that this is His plan for our family. We are so pleased that He has chosen to bring another precious child into our home and life. God tells us in the Bible in the book of James that we are to care for orphans, and we feel so honored to be a part of God’s gracious provision for children that have been abandoned and are in need of hope and a forever home.
Jesus loves the little children…ALL the children of the world. Would you consider being a part of bringing home this little one? Our agency has told us that adoptions right now are taking about one year to complete, which means that this little guy could be coming home about this same time next year. We are in immense need of financial support in order to complete the adoption. Would you please consider making a generous donation to help us fund the cost of this adoption? Please also pray for us in this journey of paperwork, paperwork, and more paperwork. Waiting is the hardest part of the process, and yet we know that God has a perfect time for this little one to make his entrance into our home. Will you join us on this journey?
Thanking Him and you,
Bob and Debbie Smyth
To DONATE BY MAIL, please make out the check to ABBA Fund (do not write the family name on the physical check, which will invalidate the charitable aspect of your gift ... instead either print out this page to send with it or include a separate note to request that we preference your gift toward the family profiled on this page) -- then mail your check and preference request to:
ABBA Fund, PO BOX 868049, Plano, TX 75086-8049
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Using the online form on this page automatically submits a request to preference your gift to the family profiled on this page as part of ABBA Fund’s Christian Family Adoption Grant Fund. ABBA Fund administers this fund and maintains full control and administration of all donated funds. We also strive to honor our donor’s preference requests in accordance with IRS and Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA) guidelines.
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