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Meet the Vatsaas family and read on to
hear of their amazing adoption journey.
Learning to Dream Big
by: Mark & Bethel Vatsaas
Throughout our adoption journey, we have tried to follow wherever God was leading. From the time God called us to adopt, we dreamed about meeting the kids God had chosen to add to our family. We never dreamed what else he had planned for us.
Our adoption application specified our preference for school age, legally-free kids. Wanting to leave God every option, we were willing to consider younger or legal-risk kids, but we didn’t believe that would happen and our expectations matched our preferences. Because we expected legally-free kids, we never expected to deal with birth parents at all, and in our minds they barely existed.
That all changed the day the county called with a potential placement. Instead of legally-free school-age kids, they offered us two legal-risk toddlers: Damien (2½) and Isaiah (1½). The birth parent we had expected to be out of the picture was suddenly popping up in the frame. It was such a shock that we prayed for two days before we were convinced that it wasn’t a mistake. One week later, they were in our home.
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