Introducing Christian Joshua Yeo

The Yeo family is enroute back to China 7 years later to bring home our God given son, Christian Yeo!

God’s agenda is often very different than ours, isn’t it? :)  As Shekina was growing up, we would periodically talk about whether we should expand our family.  After talking and praying about it, it seemed that was not the direction God was leading us.  This topic came up numerous times over these past 7 years as we would venture down the path for possible domestic/international adoption and foster-to-adopt opportunities, attending various seminars and researching various options but that never appeared to be God’s timing.  However, on March 3, 2012 things changed! :)  That was when I first set eyes on Bao Jun’s picture, and there was a striking resemblance to Shekina – his dimple and smile gave it away!  Bao Jun  (pronounced Pow Jun) became affectionately referred to as P.J.  Shekina, always up for a funny joke or story, thought this was a hoot! :)

After talking it over with Denny, we requested for more information from Great Wall China Adoption (who we had used when we adopted Shekina).  Grateful for prayers from friends and family, God was surprisingly opening the doors for us to move ahead this time. As those of you have done international adoption can attest to, the monumental task of the “The Paper Chase” documentation, homestudy meetings, Hague required training, U.S. immigration submissions, notarizations, certifications, authentications, etc in order to get your “Dossier” submitted to China was the first half of the task.  After various levels of approvals from China, more immigration submissions and coordination of all China government appointments and requirements while in country, this has now prepared the way for us to pick up our son “Christian”.  Shekina is thrilled to be a big sister (she is literally 10 days older than Christian!) so they will be, in essence, like twins! :)

Christian has been with his foster mom for the past 3-4 years along with 4 other foster siblings as is waiting for our arrival to bring him home! :)

Share in our journey as we venture out in faith following God’s leading!