Big News for the DeVries Family

As many of you already know, we have some big news to announce from the DeVries household. After months of prayer and careful consideration, the Lord is leading us to adoption from China. Wow! We are excited and overwhelmed at the same time. We are honored and humbled that the Lord has chosen our family to minister to a little girl in China. However, from all that I have been hearing from other adoptive families, we will be the ones that will receive the greatest blessing.

How do we know it will be a girl? 90% of children that are adopted from China are girls due to there 1 child policy. Since a family can only have 1 child, they want it to be a son who can carry on the family name and care for them when they are old. This leaves the orphanages flooded with loving little girls longing for a family.

Why China? China's orphanages are some of the most overcrowded in the world, with over 1/2 million orphans estimated in the year 2006. We know that our adoption is not going to change those statisitics, but if we can introduce the idea of adopting these kids in our own community we might be able to encourage others to do the same.

We would appreciate your prayers as we embark on this new journey the Lord has set before us.