The Christian and Adoption – BJUtoday
“Adoption is basic Christianity.” Those words, written in an email we received a decade ago by a twenty-four-year-old BJU graduate working as an English teacher in China, set us on a path to adoption. She and her husband intended to live in China for a year. They stayed for five because shortly after they arrived they discovered an abandoned newborn with severe medical conditions. They secured medical help for him and fostered him for five years until he was introduced to both Christ and his forever family in America. I had many assumptions about what constitutes “basic Christianity,” but adoption wasn’t on my list. It is now. And that’s because of the text the foster mother included in her email.
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