Written by Pastor Jim Shriver
I was born December 3, 1946, to an unwed mother. Though she wanted to raise me, it became obvious to her that she was not able to do so and I was placed in an orphanage. I was adopted by a wonderful family when I was four years old and grew up in that home as any biological child would, never knowing anything about my biological family. I accepted Jesus as my Lord and Savior on July 21, 1971, and surrendered to the ministry.
I began to have an interest in finding something out about my biological family when I was 59 years old, since both adoptive parents and one of my adopted sisters were now deceased. I began tracing down my family, and I found that my birth mother had died in 2001, but that I had other siblings. Through research on the internet, we discovered that I had a biological brother living in Toledo, Ohio, and contact was made. On May 10, 2007, I met my brother for the first time in my 60 years of life, what an overwhelming experience. God is so good. I not only was adopted twice, but I now have three families, one adopted physically, one adopted spiritually and one by birth.