Space Camp Blessing

 

 

Okay so you are probably thinking...what in the world does that title have to do with adopting a baby? It's a good story and since there is NADA to report on the adoption front...waiting, waiting, waiting for the Feds, I felt like this was something cool to write about. And indeed it is. I have been blessed with the opportunity for the past four years now, of getting to interpret for Deaf Space Camp at the NASA Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, AL. It literally is a "blast"! It is my favorite interpreting assignment of the year. I block off space camp week on the calendar every year! This year was strange because it should have happened in May, but we had an F5 tornado rip through our state that in addition to being utterly devastating, it coincided with Deaf Space Camp and it had to be rescheduled. This proved to be wonderful for me as I was only 2 weeks out of back surgery for the original date. It was rescheduled for mid-August. This year I was able to stay with the same group of kids the entire week, normally we jump around to the different teams. This year was fabulous not only because we got to really know the students, which were all awesome, but they were the Advance Academy group, which is the older kids (14-18). As only God can arrange, an intelligent, beautiful, funny, enchanting young Chinese girl was in my group. Normally I would not point out a person's nationality except that for this blog it is central to the point. She was adopted from China when she was a toddler. What an amazing young woman she is. She is a natural emergent leader and everyone listened to her. She has great ideas and great compassion. She was a delight to watch. Her teacher is also incredible, Jen, (love this woman) and it was from Jen that I learned of Anna's background. She volunteered to ask Anna if she would mind me asking her questions about adoption. This gracious young girl, was so kind to spend like an hour with me speaking of her past, her experiences, her future, China, her homeland, visiting, volunteering at her orphanage, Red Thread, finding her parents, just everything. What an unbelievable blessing!!! I could go on and on about Anna, but her story is hers to tell, not mine but I wanted to mention her because she was a treasure of great worth to me. I am posting a couple pictures of her so you can know what she looks like and pray for her. Please pray for her continued success in life and for blessings to abound.