‘God’s Will’: Couple’s Journey to Adopt Preemie With Severe Birth Defects and Bring Him Home

Parents Amy and Nathan Duncan from North Carolina, who always knew their adoption journey would be a little different, became adoptive parents to a premature baby boy with severe birth defects before he was even born. Doctors thought he wouldn’t survive, yet, after 104 days of fighting and fervent prayers, the baby headed home. The Wilkesboro couple started dating when Amy was 16 and Nathan was 18. Their shared Christian faith was a “huge, huge driving factor in getting married,” said Amy. From having the chance to adopt a child with life-threatening birth defects and bringing him back home with no long-term ailments, the couple say it is all God’s glory. “What we learned is that God is with us in sorrow and in joy,” Amy said. “The Lord will either deliver us from trial, or He will walk with us through it. And either way, we have His presence, …

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