Bonnie and Billy Walker have raised 28 children: three biological, 24 adopted, and one they unofficially adopted. Bonnie is a passionate defender of children’s rights who has dedicated her life to caring for children in need.  Bonnie has always wanted to be a mother. She used to tell people she wanted 10 kids but stopped […] The post Bonnie Walker: Mother of Many appeared first on Celebrate Life Magazine ..read more

He didn’t have his mother’s eyes or his father’s smile, but it was no secret that Dan Larson and his sister Barbara had been adopted. One lazy summer afternoon, when Dan was about seven, their parents called them in from playing outside and told them. “We ran back outside to play and never thought much […] The post A Birth Mother’s Loving Sacrifice appeared first on Celebrate Life Magazine ..read more

When people find out that our two boys are adopted, we often hear how lucky they are to have us. In all honesty, we are the lucky ones. Two amazing women chose us to be parents. We would not be the family that we are had two brave birth mothers not decided to give their […] The post Adoption Made Our Family Complete appeared first on Celebrate Life Magazine ..read more

At the 1994 National Prayer Breakfast, Mother Teresa of Calcutta, now St. Teresa of Calcutta, said:  I will tell you something beautiful. We are fighting abortion by adoption—by care of the mother and adoption for her baby. We have saved thousands of lives. We have sent word to the clinics, to the hospitals and police […] The post Holy Family Catholic Adoption Agency: ‘Adoption Is the Greatest Act of Love’ appeared first on Celebrate Life Magazine ..read more

“We were just kids—17-year-olds. How could we raise a baby?” Michael asked. “I still remember that visit to the doctor. He asked what we were going to do about our pregnancy. Right away, we said we would give the baby up for adoption.” Carol leaned forward, her blue eyes widening, and said: “I saw what […] The post When the Time Was Right appeared first on Celebrate Life Magazine ..read more

David Scotton grew up in Metairie, Louisiana, the only son of Susan and Jimmy Scotton. He always knew he’d been adopted, and every once in a while, he would wonder about his birth parents: Why did they put him up for adoption? Did they ever think about him? But then he would put it out […] The post Symphony of a Life at Parker & 38th appeared first on Celebrate Life Magazine ..read more

Cori Salchert walked into the eastern Wisconsin hospital where she’d worked as a bereavement specialist to families whose babies had died on the labor and delivery floor. But she wasn’t there to minister to hurting families. She was there to clean out her office. For the past few years, Cori had suffered with an autoimmune […] The post You’ll never be alone appeared first on Celebrate Life Magazine ..read more

A Korean Pastor’s heroic work leads a nominally Christian filmmaker to conversion and action. In the quiet of night, when the doorbell chimes and resonates through his home, Pastor Lee Jong-rak runs down the stairs without delay. He knows that a precious visitor has been deposited in the baby mailbox that he’d fashioned onto the […] The post The Drop Box Documentary appeared first on Celebrate Life Magazine ..read more

“Mom, I’m pregnant,” whispered the voice on the phone. It’s bad enough to hear those words in person, but when your daughter is 900 miles away in a new town with a new job and no friends, the fear is overwhelming. When she was a new university student, Natalie had cautioned me about giving unsolicited […] The post My daughter’s gift of selfless love appeared first on Celebrate Life Magazine ..read more

I’ll never forget that brutal morning of January 24, 2008. The dashboard clock read 6:30 a.m., and the deep, black night seemed uninterested in conceding its icy grip. The darkness only magnified the glowing temperature display as it shouted 18 degrees below zero. It was going to be a long day. This was the scene […] The post Lessons in adoption: If you want to make God laugh . . . appeared first on Celebrate Life Magazine ..read more