Finding Ad

Since 1999 the Chinese government has required the orphanages to run a provincial newspaper advertisement for children that are found and brought to their orphanage. This is called a "finding ad." Brian Stuy at www.research-china.org takes your child's information and researches the papers to see if he can find your child's finding ad picture. For most of us, this is the only infant photo we will ever have of our children.

We sent our information to Brian and he found Addison's finding ad. It ran May 30,2006 in the "Southern Farmer's Daily" and it was the 890th picture ad for 2006. While we are so excited to receive the photo and an actual copy of the paper, it was sad to look at all the ads. There were 33 finding ads in Addison's addition of the newspaper. It is hard to think that some of those 33 will never find a family or live in a house filled with love. It is heartbreaking to think that Addison could have been one of those children. We are just so thankful that God matched us together and that Addison will spend her life surrounded by people who love her.

Now if we can only get her home:-)