Martian Child Official Movie Trailer

Martian Child is a movie that will inspire you to love children that are unloved in the world. This 2007 film tells a story of a recently widowed man, David Gordon (played by John Cusack) who decides to adopt a 6 year old boy who has been abandoned in the world. Although the adoptive father is discouraged by some critics from adopting, he says “I don't want to bring another kid into this world. But how do you argue against loving one that's already here?” This is a must see movie!

Who would God adopt?

As I was going through applications, and the section that indicates the type of child the adoptive family would like to adopt, I began considering what God would write in the blanks. Who would God desire to adopt? This is what I think it would look like....What do you think?

Prospective Adoptive Family Application

Name: GOD

Type of child desired

Number of children willing to adopt: As many as willing to accept my invitation. My house is big! (John1:12, John 14:2)

Age: infant, child, teen, adult, elderly! Any and all! (John1:12)

Race: Invites people from every nation, tribe, people and language (Revelation 7:9)

Medical conditions willing to accept: Gladly welcomes and has compassion for children with a handicap or disability (Mark 6:53-57, Mark 3:1-5, Luke 14:21-24).

If you would like information on adoptions, please don't hesitate to call us!
1-800-553-2229
http://www.adoptnewmexico.org/

International Adoption

An article on adoption in the online magazine Christianity Today talks about international adoption.
Click the link to read the article:
http://www.ctlibrary.com/ct/2010/july/10.18.html

We are here to help anyone in the adoption process, birth parents, adoptive parents, and adoptees.
Contact Rachelle or Malisa and we would be glad to help anyway we can!

1-800-553-2229
http://www.adoptnewmexico.org/

Birth Moms Deserve Our Respect

For some Moms, giving their children the best chance at a good life means making the most excruciating sacrifice of all: placing them up for adoption...

The link below is to a Newsweek article talking about birthmoms:
http://www.newsweek.com/2010/05/20/birth-moms-deserve-our-respect.html

Please contact us if you would like to learn more about adoption:
Malisa & Rachelle
1800-553-2229
http://www.adoptnewmexico.org/

What does God think about adoptions?

Have you ever wondered what God thinks about adoptions? It seems that it is a very important question if you are a Christian and at all considering adopting. Consider a passage in Ephesians 1:3-6 that shares a message about adoption:

“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, 4even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love 5he predestined us for adoption through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, 6to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.”

It seems from reading this passage that adoption is not the idea of men, but it comes straight—from God. “In love he predestined us for adoption.” This passage indicates that adoption was not an afterthought of God’s; it was not a backup plan. As author John Piper states, “He didn’t discover one day that against his plan and foreknowledge humans had sinned and orphaned themselves in the world, and then come up with the idea of adopting them into his family. No, Paul says, he predestined adoption. He planned it” (Piper 2004 ). If you are considering adoptions, be encouraged that it is God’s idea, plan and purpose. By adopting ourselves, we model a plan that God has set in motion before the foundation of the world!

Rachelle Stephenson
 
I welcome Rachelle as a new employee to the agency.  I am also pleased to have her perspective for the blog and every aspect of the adoption process.
 
If you have any questions about adopting or placing a child for adoption please contact Rachelle or I and we would be glad to help you any way we can!
1800-553-2229
http://www.adoptnewmexico.org/