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Choosing Life through Adoption
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ADOPTION: Couple advocates adoption in words & deed - 1/16/2009
FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)--Just mentioning the word "adoption" causes John Mark Yeats' eyes to light up. Yeats, assistant professor of church history at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, not only has four adopted children, but he and his wife Angie counsel potential adoptive parents and advocate adoption wherever they can.
The idea of adoption was a topic of discussion early on in their relationship.
"Before we got married, we had laid the expectation that we could have kids on the table and surrendered it to God," Yeats said.
They agreed that even if they were able to have biological children, they would adopt at least one child. At that point, the Yeatses did not know that they would experience infertility.
Having seen a few families self-destruct when faced with infertility, Yeats considers this kind of surrender "an important thing because a lot of times we think it's a right that we have kids."
Having difficulty getting pregnant early in their marriage, the Yeatses experienced feelings of inadequacy. Some wondered what was "wrong," since they adopted children instead of having them biologically.
"Many people want a sense of biological succession," Yeats said. Angie admits that she had difficulty with it as well, wanting to be able to bring the baby home from the hospital.
Angie said she prayed, "I'd just like to know one way or the other whether we should adopt." After a complicated tubular pregnancy that ended in surgery, doctors told them in-vitro fertilization was their only option for getting pregnant ...
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ADOPTION: Finding Jesus in an orphanage - 1/16/2009
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--When my wife Maria and I at long last received the call that the legal process was over, and we returned to Russia to pick up our new sons, we found that their transition from orphanage to family was more difficult than we had supposed. We dressed the boys in outfits our parents had bought for them. We nodded our thanks to the orphanage personnel and walked out into the sunlight, to the terror of the two boys.
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ADOPTION: Celebrating God's gift of life - 1/16/2009
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ADOPTION: Infertility journey was worth it - 1/16/2009
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--My 11-month-old son Graham is saying "da-da" now. Actually, it's more like "da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da," and he rarely says it when looking at me, but I'm not complaining. I'm just enjoying the moment.
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ADOPTION: Fatherly thoughts for Laura - 1/16/2009
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ADOPTION: The heart of the Gospel - 1/16/2009
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