Meet Our Son, Sam!

Here he is. Samuel Duron Moss. Doesn't he look like Suze?? He also has Nick's personality (likes to bang on noisy drum and is very fond of music). We sent our LOI (Letter of Intent) to adopt Sam to the Chinese Government. We now wait for them to send us an LOA (Letter of Acceptance). This usually takes about 3 months or 100 days. We pray it will be sooner. We should travel within a month after receiving that LOA. We want to share with everyone how God orchestrated our adoption journey. God opened and closed doors that lead us to Sam. We feel very blessed and we know that God is going to continue to heal Sam's heart and supply all our needs. For those of you just joining us, here is Sam's story. He was found at 4:43am on the morning of July 20, 2006 at door post #7, group 10, district 5 at the Zhang Jia Gang City Orphanage in the Province of Jiangsu. An orphanage employee discovered him. A note was pinned to him that read "born on June 9, 2006". After numerous attempts to locate his birth parents, he was placed in the orphanage and given the name Zhang, Jin Hao. Zhang is his last name and that is the city where he was found. Jin means "golden" and Hao mean" one from heaven". Doctors soon discovered he had a heart defect called Ventricle Septial Defect (VSD) and was operated on in December 2006. He was also born with an extra thumb on his right hand. He recovered well from the surgery and went back to the orphanage where he "liked to be hugged and had a ready smile". Meanwhile, back here in Montgomery, Alabama we prayed about adding our names to the special needs list with our adoption agency. In April we faxed a letter to our agency and they added us to this list. Monday, May 7 our agency director, Pat Lee, called us and asked if we would be interested in adopting a boy. She had just received his profile and medical report. We told her yes we would consider it and she sent us his picture and profile. With the help of our Sunday School teacher and his wife (Judy and Jerry Kemp) we got a local pediatric cardiologist to look at his medical report and echocardiogram. He said all looked normal and explained to us that VSD was a common defect and most children never experience complications. We are so blessed that God lead us to Sam. We know that he is the child that God had planned for us all along. We had someone from our Sunday School Class anonymously donate the airfare for our flights to and from China. We are so very grateful to them and we know that God will reward them for their generous and selfless deed. God is good and all of the glory goes to Him!