The Vandewarker’s story.
“When everything feels like it’s upside down, God is constantly reminding me that He is more than enough, and He will provide our needs, all we have to do is trust and rest.”
“As we as a family have entered into this chaotic time of life, where everything feels like its spinning in some unknown direction, I find that I am resting more and more upon our first hand knowledge that we serve a God who is both provider and protector of those he loves.. I say first hand because three and half years ago, God brought us through a time of desperate fear and immeasurable blessing. In June of 2016, we decided that the best way for us to grow our family of four into a family of five was through international adoption, and things started off great! We quickly found our daughter and our paperwork was going smoothly. Then, in March of 2017, as we were patiently waiting to finish up paper work and go get our daughter, the family business sold, leaving us without a job, with a mortgage and a child waiting halfway across the world. I don’t know if I’ve ever been that scared. There was no question in my mind that she was ours, and there was nothing we wouldn’t have done to bring her home, but we had no idea where the money was going to come from. My husband went back to school for computer programming, and we did everything we could to stay afloat financially and still pay adoption costs on time, and the most amazing thing happened, we survived. God showed up in amazing ways, through amazing people, and honestly, I don’t know how we survived, how we kept our house, or how we got to China or back…. But we did. None of it feels like it adds up, but we were never a moment without the care, concern, and provision of God. And we have been blessed beyond belief by the addition of our daughter, who is in every way a perfect fit for our little family. We were blessed to have two months before Jason got a job where he and Daisy got to bond. In every way, God provided for our little family, and blessed our adoption. I am learning to lose my fear of money, to stop trying to control what we have, and to know that it will be enough. Even now, when everything feels like it’s upside down, God is constantly reminding me that He is more than enough, and He will provide our needs, all we have to do is trust and rest.”
—The Vandewarkers
Cousins: Daisy, Abby, Hannah, Ben, and Jonah.