Adopted

No, this is not a literal adoption like you might think!

When I first began attending my church here in Mobile, we had a program in our college ministry called "Adopt a College Student". It's where a family in our church could kind of take a college student who was not from Mobile under their wing and help them out and be like a family to them while they were away from their own family.

Well folks....meet my adopted family!

The picture above is of my 'adopted parents' Eddie and Linda Robinson in October 2008 celebrating 40 years of marriage. I first met Mrs. Linda when I joined the choir at Dauphin Way in 2007. She is one of our first sopranos, and boy can she SING! We got to know each other, and, a few weeks later, I got to meet her husband, Eddie, and their daughter and youngest child, Melissa (I'll try to share some pictures of Melissa and me in future posts.). A few weeks later, I found out that they were going to be my adopted family! Talk about a shock! I mean, when you walk into the choir room and one of the choir members tells you they were just told to give you some balloons, pretzels, and a card...yeah...shock! Then I found out who it was from and what the request before me was. I loved them already, so it was an easy decision to say yes when they said they wanted to be my adopted family!

Since that time, the program itself has kind of fell by the way. This bond, however, remains. Mr. Eddie, Mrs. Linda, and Melissa (who we affectionately call "Sissy") will always be my adopted family. They are such a blessing to me, and I thank God for their willingness to be there for me and to look out for as their own!