Adoption is about needs met and longings satisfied. As the moral darkness around us intesifies, more and more innocent children are deprived the security of belonging to a two-parent family. They are born, but not "raised," not loved and nurtured nor pointed toward God. Their futures are often bleak. Adoptive parents have a burden for such children.

For This Child We Prayed shares the experiences of those who traveled from the disappointment of childlessness to the joy of parenthood by adoption. They accepted the adoption, not as a second-best solution, but as God's plan for forming their family. The stories show God working out details of seemingly impossible situations. Adoption is pictured as a venture of faith—faith in God who designs families and forms them by different means.

For This Child We Prayed was written to bless adoptive families, to provide useful resources for those considering adoption, and to help readers better understand what adoption is about—meeting the needs and longings of lonely children and lonely parents.

He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Psalm 113:9