ADOPTING AGAIN: Our Daughter with Dwarfism!

We have been keeping a little secret.

We are adopting a little girl from China 
with achondroplasia dwarfism and special needs and... 

TODAY is her 6th BIRTHDAY!!!

Meet our new daughter,
HAVEN! 

Happy Birthday, 

My Beautiful Girl.

At 31 inches tall, 
Haven will be our oldest,

even though she stands smaller than Moses!

We think she is just perfect.
Just as she is.

She is "a planting of the Lord 
for the display of His splendor."
-Isaiah 61:1-3

While there are many uncertainties about 
her overall health, her medical needs, 
and which type of dwarfism she has...

We know that He has a Plan,
and that He has been writing her story
since the Beginning.

We found Haven on a waiting child "special focus" list 

for older or harder to place children 

with moderate to severe special needs.

This is the picture we saw:

Then came the question...

(And we've heard it before)

"Do you have room for me?"

Yes.

We.

DO.

Haven has been waiting 

in an orphanage for a family 
SINCE 2007.

The wait is OVER.

This is the face of a little girl 
being told that she has been Chosen, that she is Cherished, 
and that she will not spend her life in an institution: 

This is the face of a little girl being told that the family 
in the photo album are her people - and that 

She is no longer a "Waiting Child"  

because WE are now waiting for HER:

And this...

This is the face of a little girl who was her sister's biggest advocate, who insisted that Haven would come home even after we lost her file and all hope seemed lost, who refused to accept "no" and prayed every. single. night.

So, while this adoption may not be
the picture that 

we had imagined for our family... 

we know that God is painting a picture that is 

much. more. beautiful.  

And we are going to watch Him put 

it all together, piece by piece.

Because of some of the uncertainties that Haven's health brings, 

the probability of surgical needs, and our recent double adoption from Ethiopia, 
we need to fundraise towards the 29K adoption cost to bring Haven home.  

Will you be a part of her story? 

For every $20 donated, 
we will write your name on the back of one puzzle piece. 

The completed puzzle will be placed in a double-sided frame and hung on her wall!

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1)  DONATE by Paypal:

                                                                    

2)  Or DONATE to our tax-deductible 

AdoptTogether Fund:

https://www.adopttogether.org/roepnack

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Happy Birthday, Haven!
And thank you, Friends.

Please share our story,

because you KNOW He writes a Good One:
https://www.adopttogether.org/roepnack

"Let them thank the Lord for His steadfast love,

for His wondrous works to the children of man!

For He shatters the doors of bronze

and cuts in two the bars of iron."

Psalm 107: 15-16

-Happy Birthday, Baby.
Love,
Mommy