The last Sunday in January is Presentation Sunday at Cedar Park Church. That Sunday is set aside every year to pray for infertile couples. These couples come from all around the Puget Sound area, and beyond. While we are about embryo adoption, the Lord sends us miracle babies, too. Here is one such story as told by Elena and Craig, the blessed parents of this precious daughter.
Elena and Craig Nishizaki Testimony We started "trying to get pregnant" in October 2010. In November we found out that we were pregnant, but three days later we miscarried. We continued to try to get pregnant after the miscarriage, and after six months we decided to visit Seattle Reproductive Medicine (SRM) for a consultation. We were devastated to learn that we had a slim chance of conceiving naturally, and with medical intervention we had a 5-15% chance of success. Over the next six months we did 3 IUI's that failed. We prayed about it and felt called to pursue adoption instead of spending any more money on fertility drugs. We found out about Embryo Adoption Services of Cedar Park from a woman at our church. She shared what embryo adoption was and told us that there was a Japanese embryo up for adoption. She said this was a very rare thing. We got in contact with Maria the director to learn more about embryo adoption and we saw the movie "The Gift of Life", at Cedar Park Church. She invited us to attend Cedar Park Church's Presentation Sunday on January 28, 2012. We were prayed over by the prayer ministry team that day, and had a very powerful experience. God placed on our hearts that we would have a child, but it wasn't clear how or when. After prayer and talking to Maria we decided that embryo adoption was the way to go for us and began the process. We were ecstatic when the donor family chose us. We worked as quickly as we could to get everything done. The paperwork was finalized at the end of March, 2012. The embryo shipped to Seattle Reproductive Medicine (SRM) on April 9th, 2012. On that same day, Elena decided to do a pregnancy test, because she had not gotten her period and she needed to take one more medical test before we could set the transfer date. The pregnancy test was positive and we both were in shock. The next day Elena went to the doctor to do another pregnancy test, they confirmed that we were pregnant. We still could not believe it. We went back to SRM to tell them that we were pregnant, they asked when we did the transfer, we told them we had not done it yet. Our doctor, at our 6 week appointment when we confirmed a heartbeat told us that he had never seen this happen. It truly was a miracle. By the grace of God, we were pregnant with no medical intervention. On December 14th, Kale'a Grace was born. Kale'a means Joy in Hawaiian and her middle name is Grace. We named her Grace after Ephesians 2: 8-10 8 "For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith-and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God- 9 not by works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do". It is by God's grace that we have a beautiful baby girl. We wrote to the donor family and told them that we are still committed to the embryo that we adopted. We always dreamed of having two children, but with the challenges that we had in getting pregnant, we weren't sure if we could. Our adopted embryo has a big sister now. God willing, we plan on doing the transfer early in 2014. We joked when we were pregnant that we had one in the oven and one chillin'. We feel so blessed. It's amazing to look back one year and see how different life is today. Thank you Maria for your prayers and all the hard work that you do to help God create families. ~Craig & Elena WATCH them tell the story at Cedar Park www.cedarpark.org More about CP Contact Us: Embryo Adoption Service of Cedar Park Lake Place Office Center 1605 NW Sammamish Road, Suite 250 Issaquah, WA 98027 www.Adoptembryos.org www.DonateEmbryos.org Maria Lancaster, Director
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"Everyone shall stand in awe and confess the greatness of the miracle of God.... They will realize what amazing things He does." Psalm 64:9 |