He Adopted Us
“For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love, he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will” Ephesians 1:4-5
Luke Bacon was adopted by Welsh missionaries as a baby. Now an Anglican minister in Chatham, Kent, his experience inspired him and his wife, Becci, to extend their own family through adoption.
He said: “I was an unexpected, unplanned baby. My biological mother had the firm conviction that she didn’t want me to be raised in a single parent family, so she put me up for adoption with a Christian agency while she was pregnant.
My heritage is a mix of West African and British, and one of the stipulations was that I be placed with a family who had some understanding of the African part of my identity. This coincided with a couple from South Wales, who had recently returned from two years teaching in Ghana, exploring the possibility of adoption. They picked me up from the hospital when I was one week old.
As someone who has benefited so greatly from adoption, it is something that has always been on my radar, and when Becci and I got married we shared the opinion that we would love to extend our family through adoption.”
God has opened His heart to adopt us into His family.
“The moment we were born again, we were placed in an adoptive state as heirs, as sons of God.” – Jon Courson
“Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.” – Romans 8:23