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Dear Birth Mother,

   We would like to share with you a little about our family. Solon, my husband came from a family of nine.  At age 54 he is medically retired. My name is Shirley. I am 38 and a keeper at home. I home school and came from a family of five. Jeffrey - 13 is quiet, sweet, and very patient. We adopted him when he was 9 months old. They suspected at the time that he was autistic and mentally retarded. He is neither. Malachi - 7 is very personable, outgoing, smart, loves the LORD and is not shy to tell people about it. We had him 12 years after our first son. We were told after our first son was born that we could not have anymore children. It was very exciting to us when the LORD allowed us Malachi. We also have four foster children. They are a sibling group. They have the same mother and father. They have been in our home for 2 years this January. We did home school them through the summer and on our recent trip. We were gone for two months traveling. They were all in special education classes. Now they are doing too good for those services. Brittany-10 is a very sweet girl. She loves the LORD and people. She is on the honor roll in school. Mandy- 9 she can be very loving, and is always helping out any way she can. She just made honor roll this year. She has worked very hard for the good grades. Elisa – 8 is very sweet and cute as a button. She has a very sweet disposition and cutesy attitude. She is still working hard with her schooling. I think she will really catch on in a year or so. Sean – 7 has an easy smile and is a bit shy. He is very smart and an excellent reader. He is reading through his King James Bible all on his own. He is in Psalms already. At the end of school in June he could barely read. A little one-on-one and he really took off. It was the same in Math. They are all really good children. They are very respectful. They address you as Mam, & Sir. We have no TV in our home so they are all readers and have great imaginations. Children are a gift from GOD and we enjoy our blessings immensely.

   We arrived in Alaska back in 1993. We had decided to find out a little about GOD when we first got here. The first weekend there we dressed up and went looking for a church.  We stopped at an Independent Baptist Church in Palmer. We attended every service. On November 7, 1993 I accepted JESUS as my personal Savior. It changed me forever; as JESUS does for every one. On November 11, My husband and oldest son (Solon Jr.), accepted JESUS. Our life has been so rich and wonderful since then. I need to say that we take our Christian walk very serious. We are very faithful church goers and soul winners. We have family devotions and encourage Bible reading. All our children know we always try to put GOD first and they do try to do the same. (as best as we can)

   We love children and we feel that with both of us home full time, we have the time and resources that some people just do not have. I already home school so I am better able to spend time without pressure to teach a child that needs a little extra love and care. Besides that, I love home schooling! But most important we have GOD'S grace on our lives and that gives us the greatest resource available for raising children. We sure are not perfect parents, but we are trying with all our hearts to raise our children to become loving and respectful adults, not perfect ones. And if it is GODS will, we will be able to adopt the children HE may have for us out there.

   All children come from GOD. All children deserve the right to life, and the pursuit of happiness. If they happen to be born different they really have no idea what it would be like to be any other way. So it is very likely that they will grow up to be a very happy person just the way they are.

   I do not believe love conquers all but I do believe being well loved makes the bad a little easier to bare and provides a much better chance at a happier life. I am no respecter of persons; I think the LORD gave me a gift for feeling what people are feeling rather than what is being said most times. That, I have discovered, helps immensely with special needs or people who just have a hard time communicating what they really are trying to say.

For contact with this family, please e-mail or phone nathanews@aol.com

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