This past May 2006, Shannon and Tricia Brown went to China to bring home a baby girl: Grace Lu Brown. Grace was to be their fifth child, but their first adopted child. The Browns are very normal, human beings who happen to have an extraordinary story to tell - a story almost inseparably intertwined with the story of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

“We had one name to choose from, and that was GRACE…. Adoption has given us, given my family…a fuller understanding of God’s grace to us in our family, and what He has done on our behalf - how He must feel when a child is rescued into His family, when He rescues somebody. And how He must feel to be able to shower them with love and make them part of His family.”

To gain a better understanding of adoption as a rescue ministry and something close to the heart of God, take the time to listen to this brief testimony of the Browns’ experience adopting Grace:

a testimony about Gospel-centered adoption
(MP3 testimony from Shannon Brown, 7 January 2007)

Journey to Grace (http://www.youbelong.net/thebrowns)
Browns’ online adoption journal
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