This is the story (total God thing) of T:

About 1.5 years ago, 2 college students with Campus Crusade for Christ were out evangelizing in a village.. They knocked on a door and a woman answered. They asked if they could come in and talk to her. She said yes they could, but to hurry because she had something to do. They talked with her and told her about Jesus and His salvation message. She listened and accepted Jesus as her Lord and Savior! She then explained to them that she had just found out she was HIV+ and was going to commit suicide the moment they knocked on the door. She had three children and no way to support and feed them. She didn't know what she was going to do. The college students didn't know either what she was going to do with her children. They went back to the church they were working through and talked to the lady there. The lady said to them, "don't you know our church has an orphanage?" They went back and talked to the mother and told her that they had a place for her children. The mother, knowing she would die, agreed to put the two youngest (ages 1 & 4) up for adoption. My agency, CCI, put the two on their waiting list and a single mom, who was paper ready, saw them and accepted a referral. She was paper ready so they went straight to the transition house. She picked them up in June. She was surprised to find there was an older brother, age 10. He didn't want to be put up for adoption because he wanted to take care of his mother.

When it came time for court, the mother was very sick. The students said she was "rigid". They found orange Fanta and poured it down her throat to revive her so she could get to court. It is required if a parent is alive that they go to court to give up parental rights. She made it to court and decided she needed to have her son taken care of too. He got put on the waiting list and we saw him.

I had posted on my homeschool forum asking if anyone had used CCI. One lady came forward. I told our agency director I was in touch with "Mary". She said that Mary had T's siblings. Mary said it was her cousin who had them. I got an email from this cousin. I then got pictures. I got the story of picking up the two siblings. The cousin had went to T's mother's house and visited and met T.

Mary's cousin had been with another agency and was #300 in line for a child/children. Mary had asked why she would wait when her agency had many children available and there was no wait. She changed agency's, made a few changes to her paperwork and was very quickly paper ready.

I guess I saw God's hand in it all and we were meant to take T.