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All God’s Children International believes the greatest testimony of the hope God has given orphan children all over the world is to hear their story in their own words. Those who are orphans no more have a message to give to the world. Their stories are their own “Signatures of Hope” miraculously given to them personally by the one who knew each one by name before the world began.
Hannah Beazely – AGCI’s First Adoption
As I reflect about how my adoption came to pass, I am afraid there is so much I could write and yet never fully share how miraculous it truly was. What touches my heart most now, so many years later, is the realization that God began to move mountains on my behalf, years before I was even born…
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Sofia Wilson
Hope, I believe, is a gift from God, something we can hold onto if we are feeling distressed or wishing for a better tomorrow. But the hope of God is a hope for the many people who are struggling and suffering in our world. The same hope many orphans have that someday they will be adopted into a family that cherishes and adores them. Being a former orphan myself, I have been touched by the Lord in a unique and special way.
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Stanislav O’Neal
I first realized that my life was different, not because of anything anyone said, but just because of a feeling I had that wouldn’t go away. It was a deep feeling of sadness and loss. One day, when I was around five, I remember walking up a wide stairway holding Voiva’s hand. She had known me since I was a baby and was one of my special Babas. I remember looking up at her as we walked and asking, “Are you my mommy?”…
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Medi Espinal
My sisters knew that because they were so much older than me they would be forced to leave the orphanage at some point, and I would be left alone without them. I was pretty young when Agnes and Katalin came up with a plan. They decided to write a letter asking for someone to adopt me. Even though they knew they might never see me again, they thought how much worse it would be to leave me to grow up in the orphanage with no family left to watch over me…
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Joe Jerand
My name is Joe Jerand. I was born in Shoumen, Bulgaria on January 3rd, 1993. I was around five years old when I was adopted. My mom really prayed about my new name and they decided to call me Joseph Ruman Jerand. My parents had a deep desire to adopt a child and connected with AGCI through our church. At first they were looking at other countries, and then God led them to Bulgaria, and then to me…
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Caeli Croft
I believe my signature of hope began May 31, 1994, the day I was born. I entered this world in a place called Rousse, a northern Bulgarian city located on the banks of the Danube River. My birth mother named me Lyubomira. It’s a Slavic name meaning, “one who loves the world.” I think she gave me that name because perhaps she believed I would love the world someday!…
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Ivanca Fox
Despite all the heartache and hardships I experienced as an orphan, I remember feeling like I always had hope. I would dream every day to live in a house and have a family like other kids I would see at school or in the village. I was happy for them, even though I felt like it might not happen for me…
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Dariana Fox
In Macedonia, every child in the orphanage or foster home was given a year and a half to be adopted. After that time, the child is denied for adoption. I was at 17 months and two weeks, leaving only two weeks for me to be adopted or left in Macedonia for the rest of my life…
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My story did not really begin in my birth country, but in America, months before I was born! After several years of marriage, a young couple made plans to start their family. After eight years of waiting and praying and trying to conceive, they realized God must have another plan…
