They've spent the last three and a half years dreaming of starting a family of their own.  But it hasn't happened.  Then God did something that they could never have dreamed up, left to their own devices. 

It happened in a remote village to an incredibly poor family.  Extreme poverty precluded prenatal care.  And the same level of poverty caused the birth to take place at home with no medical assistance whatsoever.  The mother delivered a little boy and his twin sister, and then died of complications related to the delivery.  Neither the newly widowed father nor anyone in the extended family could take care of motherless twins.  The father heard about an orphanage across the river in Nigeria that accepted newborns.  He was in the process of taking the babies there when the canoe he was riding in capsized.  Sadly, the father drowned.  Somehow the twins survived and somehow they were brought back to the village.  The newborn baby boy got sick and died very quickly.  An older sister named the surviving girl Miracle because she truly is a miracle.  But the family was even less equipped to raise this child than before.  So the Grandmother, cousins, and uncles got involved.  They searched everywhere in their part of Cameroon for an orphanage that would take a newborn.  Nobody wanted to even think of making a second attempt to get the baby into Nigeria.  

News of this families plight traveled quite some distance to another village where our friends live.  They immediately volunteered to take little Miracle and raise her for the glory of God.  This family, so torn apart with grief and loss, gratefully placed their precious little bundle into the loving arms of our missionary friends.   And she was given a second name.  Miracle Grace.  She spent last night at Shiloh with her brand new parents.   She's adorable.  We briefly considered stealing her, but then remembered that raising children is for the young.  We're only young at heart!