| The Martin Family (2000)
Our story, like many others', begins with infertility. After a few years of marriage, we decided to grow our family. It became evident in 1994 that we would have problems having a biological child. We tried . . . [Continue] |
| The Newland Family (2001)
Just imagine a mother bundling a baby in a threadbare piece of cloth and leaving her in a hospital lobby. She leaves her there realizing someone will easily find her and care for her. At only . . . [Continue] |
| The McKiernan Family (1998)
This is our daughter! Shannon Marie McKiernan. She was born May 13, 1998 in Jiangxi and was at the Yong Feng Orphanage. Her Chinese name is "Zhou Yongsa" , which was given to her by the . . . [Continue] |
| The Barnes Family (2001)
I guess just like every young girl, we all daydream about our future family. Wondering whom we will marry and how many children we will someday have. We do not know what kind of plan God . . . [Continue] |
| The Snyder Family (2001)
"Daa-dee, Daa-dee!" our daughter called out happily after my husband, Steve, came home from a long day at work. Our daughter, Hannah had been standing in the middle of the kitchen floor when she saw her . . . [Continue] |
| The Larsen Family (1999)
Hello Everybody,
My name is Jina Mei. My Chinese name is Ji Mei Dong. It means "fortunate, beautiful plum blossom, born in the winter". I was born on January 19th, 1999 in tiny peasant village called Wenlou, . . . [Continue] |
| The Spalding Family (2001)
Our Daughter's name is Lauren Breana YiShuang Spalding and we returned from China on October 31, 2001. She will be one year old on November 29, 2001. She is from the Jiangsu Province and the Changzhou . . . [Continue] |
| The McInteer Family (2000)
Our adoption of a Chinese child was unusually difficult. In fact, we were actually forced to change adoption agencies in the middle of the process. Our final agency was A Helping Hand.
We started with a . . . [Continue] |
| The Mitchell Family (2001)
My husband Mike and I had been introduced to international adoption about 5 years ago from the various media stories on the plight of children in Russia. We moved to Wilmore, Kentucky in the . . . [Continue] |
| The Taylor Family (2001)
"Kazakhstan" never heard of it ? Where in the world is Kazakhstan? How do you say that again? Why Kazakhstan? These were just a few of the questions we were asked when we decided . . . [Continue] |
| The Taylor Family (2000)
Hannah MeiLe Taylor was found on the steps of Leping Orphanage on March 1. She was one day old with her birthday being 2-28-99. The Taylor family adopted her, in love, thirteen months later on . . . [Continue] |
| The Martin Family (2002)
June 6, 2002 was just like any other day. It started with some friends coming over for play date at our house. The latest waiting child list had arrived at A Helping Hand and an email . . . [Continue] |
| The Wallace Family (2002)
Our names are Brad and Kristin Wallace and we became the adoring parents of Chang Ru Xia, now Victoria Rose RuXia on Sept 8, 2002.
Our decision to adopt came to us after a lot of . . . [Continue] |
| The Miller Family (2002)
The Millers
Adopted Yang FuHua (Laurel Caroline FuHua Miller)
Feb 27, 2002
The adoption process for China was much easier than we expected it to be. After 4 months of gathering paperwork (most of that time is just . . . [Continue] |
| The Lehmkul Family (2004)
Don and Diana Lehmkul received their referral through A Helping Hand on October 13, 2004. They returned from China December 10, 2004 with their new daughter, Grace. Grace was born on December 12, 2003 . . . [Continue] |
| The Mason Family (2005)
We visited Abbie in August of 2005 for a long weekend. We took our two boys (ages 8 and 11). It was a great time for us all. The staff of God Bless the Children were . . . [Continue] |
| The Ogren Family (2006)
We’ve been home a little less than 2 months now and things have begun to settle into a fairly normal routine – if one can call routine what happens in a household with 4 children! Téo . . . [Continue] |
| The Jackson Family (2002)
Li is our third, of four, daughters from China. She is originally from the Huai Bei Social Welfare Institute in Anhui Province, her Cinese name was Huai Li ("jasmine flower of the Huai River").
She was . . . [Continue] |
| The Spieldenner Family (2006)
We wanted a big family, yet after two children, two miscarriages and bouts with Post-Partum Depression, we began to question if we should pursue having anymore children. We began to pray. I (Jill) prayed . . . [Continue] |
| The Bennett Family (2006)
We have felt so fortunate to have the opportunity to work with the wonderful staff at A Helping Hand. We have found the agency to be exactly that- a hand that helps. We have felt supported, . . . [Continue] |
| The Devore Family (2006)
Our path to adoption like many other couples started with infertility. We always thought we had the right plan; we thought we were doing things the right way, we waited until we had the right jobs, . . . [Continue] |
| The Cooper Family (2003)
God does hear and answer our prayers! How can anyone pray for the same thing for twenty years, you may ask? The answer is simple, it just depends on how much faith you have. . . . [Continue] |
