Family Stories

Over the years, GWCA has worked with families to bring thousands of children home from China. While the adoption process itself remains the same from one family to the next, each family’s journey is completely unique. Here are a few of the stories that families have shared about

• A Familiar Face – The China Matching Process
• You Belong – From Hosting to Adoption
• One Month Home
• Lillian’s Matching Story
• DSD – A Family’s Insight
• Bryndal’s Story
• Back in Their Arms
  • One Month Home
  • Eight Months Home
• “Lou” Finds Her Forever Family!
• Ya Ya’s Story
• Welcoming Naomi – A Dream Come True
  • Welcome Home, Naomi!
  • Eight Months Home – Learning Our Dance
• Finding Caroline
  • Welcome Home, Caroline!
• Meant to Be
• Maya’s Journey Home
• 6547 Miles to Home – Duo’s Journey from Hosting to Adoption
• Lena Yi Yi’s Journey – An ‘Older Child Adoption’ Story
• From Found to Forever: A Life Changing Trip to China
• 5 Things I wish I’d Known Before Adopting a Child with Special Needs
• My Heroes in Disguise – GWCA’s First Adoptee Shares Her Story

Family Videos

We love when families share their stories through videos. Take a moment to watch some of our sweet families’ stories!

The Journey to Adopt Jillian Kate – China

Bringing Eve Home – China

The Adoption of Duo Ezra – China Hosting and Adoption

City on Our Knees – Haiti 

Jude’s Adoption – China

Bringing Ben Home – China

Avery’s Story – China

Our Adoption Story – China

Super Man is Coming Home 

This video shows the wonderful journey one of our families made bringing home their son. It’s a beautiful story that we hope can encourage many to take the leap of faith and become a forever family for one of our beautiful children.

The password for this video is superhero.

Welcome Home Zeke

Bringing Natalie Home

“This video tells our family’s story as we’re waiting to adopt our third child, a baby boy in China!” -The Belote Family

Help ChuChu Come Home

His family has set up a site to donate to bringing him home, check it out!

Bella’s Story

Bella came home in 2012, look at how far she has come!

Zoe’s Story

Sean Wants Equality

After learning about MLK at school Sean wrote this song to share with everyone.