- What if he leaves me?
- What if I don't have a job?
- What if I can't afford the baby I have right now?
- What if she's my daughter?
- My friend?
- My sister?
- My neighbor?
- What if I make myself available?
- What if she saw the baby?
- What if I didn't judge her?
- What if there's a knock on the door?
(Knocking sound)
- I had a neighbor that came over to my house one morning,
and asked me if I could take her
to an appointment the next day.
I didn't know where she wanted to go
but I said, "Sure, I'll take you to an appointment."
She said she had an appointment at Planned Parenthood,
and so I still said, "Yes, yes I will take you."
I mean it wasn't my job to,
to judge her,
and say "Well I'm not going to take you there."
I mean God gives us grace and mercy
and that's what we need the most.
But it was like, God just put it on my heart, say,
"Yeah, you know, I'll take you.
But I want you to go somewhere with me first."
She said "Yeah, sure" and so I didn't tell her what it was
and I, when she left I called Pregnancy Decision Center
and I said "I need an appointment
with an ultrasound, tonight."
I thought if she had a ultrasound,
(baby coos)
how can you say, you don't want that.
God just put that on my heart to say,
let's get an ultrasound for this baby.
They talked with her
and everybody was gracious and loving,
and so it was very exciting to sit there with her
to see what her reaction was going to be during the ultrasound.
She said "I'm not going to go to Planned Parenthood."
So, it was, just gives me chills thinking
about that now.
You know, I mean, so, it was a life saved.
They talked to her about keeping the baby
and helping her with the baby,
or, you know there were other options like adoption.
So they gave her all this information,
and I remember when we left,
we were talking about that,
and we were talking about adoption,
and I even knew a couple that were looking to adopt.
I think she did go back and forth a lot,
I mean it was a hard decision, I mean,
you have nine months to think about things
and you know you could change your mind and whatever.
So I told her, I said "We'll find someone,
to adopt your baby, if you decide that,"
and it gave her hope.
So when Terri told me about the opportunity
with her neighbor, to possibly adopt her child,
I felt very nervous.
We were invited to a cookout at Terri and Dan's house,
where their neighbor would come over, and join us.
We found it easy to talk to her
and presented her with our profile,
and I assume that she probably had
a pile of other profiles to look through.
So I never thought that she would choose us.
After she met them, she wanted them
to be the parents of her baby.
We were thrilled. We were available,
and ready for the call, when the doctor said
the baby might come.
We went into the maternity room,
and we were able to watch Sam come into this world.
Couldn't believe that he was ours.
I think it's heroic that somebody would
surrender their child for adoption.
And it's all, selfless act with a child in mind,
and I know Sam is happy that his birth mom gave him life,
and he has thanked her for that.
That just made my heart full
to know that they got a baby boy to raise
and that he was there and alive
and being used by God.
So, it was amazing.