“An Excellent Resource for anyone considering adoption”
-- STEVEN CURTIS CHAPMAN

“The book ... is perhaps the best bridge-building guide for Christians to successfully adopt that has ever been penned.”
-- SCOTT A. HASENBALG
Executive Director, Shaohannah's Hope

About the Book

In the summer of 2006, Amberlie Joy FuShuang Gillespie traveled across the world to join her new family very excited brothers and sisters. Although she is one very blessed little girl, there remain over 140 million orphans worldwide, children of all ages, races and countries. Successful Adoption: A Guide for Christian Families presents a practical and spiritual view of adoption. Best-selling author, editor, and adoptive mom Natalie Nichols Gillespie puts (future) parents' minds at ease with answers to many of the most common adoption questions. From the introduction, where Gillespie discusses her own calling to adopt, to the very last appendix in the book, questions large and small are answered in detail. Successful Adoption is bound to become one of adoptive parents' most values resources. Although many couples desire to give children a loving home, going through the adoption steps may seem overwhelming, and many people don't know where to begin. Successful Adoption gives adoptive parents a place to start, and each chapter clearly covers several issues of adoption, such as:

• How much adoption costs and how the IRS can help you pay for it
• What questions to ask to find an agency or attorney you can trust
• Where adoptable children are
• What paperwork has to be done and how you get started -- and finished
• How long it really takes before you can bring your child home
• The differences between domestic and international adoption
• How to help orphans at home and abroad, if you are not adopting

Best of all, the book is filled with true stories of adoptive children and parents. From Steven and Mary Beth Chapman to Stormie Omartian to U.S. Senator Sam Brownback (Kansas) and others, there are many parents whose hearts have been touched and changed through adoption. Positive, informative and helpful, Successful Adoptions's ultimate message is bringing children and homes together.