Our Beloved Son
Before we moved to Cambodia, God told us family was going to be a big part of our life and ministry in Cambodia. We had no idea our family would actually get bigger. In the middle of the pandemic, we brought home Judah when he was nine months old. He was born ten weeks early and abandoned at the hospital within hours of his birth. After bringing him home we decided to be his forever family.
We spent two years going through the process of becoming his legal foster parents and then adopting locally. Cambodia does not have an adoption agreement with the US; so we weren't able to talk about Judah publicly until after it was finished because of the complex and delicate nature of adopting as foreigners.
In the end, we not only were approved to adopt, but also were able to change his name! That's right Judah is officially a Holmes! It was challenging and costly. We were told "no" so many times. It's really a miracle that it happened at all. Even though we weren't able to talk about it, we couldn't have gotten through without the amazing prayer and generosity of our support family around the world! Thank you everyone for partnering with our family! Next steps are to journey towards a legal process to get Judah US citizenship. It will be challenging, but we are so thankful to face it together as a family.
We spent two years going through the process of becoming his legal foster parents and then adopting locally. Cambodia does not have an adoption agreement with the US; so we weren't able to talk about Judah publicly until after it was finished because of the complex and delicate nature of adopting as foreigners.
In the end, we not only were approved to adopt, but also were able to change his name! That's right Judah is officially a Holmes! It was challenging and costly. We were told "no" so many times. It's really a miracle that it happened at all. Even though we weren't able to talk about it, we couldn't have gotten through without the amazing prayer and generosity of our support family around the world! Thank you everyone for partnering with our family! Next steps are to journey towards a legal process to get Judah US citizenship. It will be challenging, but we are so thankful to face it together as a family.