CCAI

 We had the great opportunity to travel to Michigan a few weekends ago to meet up with other adoptive families and the founder of our adoption agency, Joshua Zhong. I have uploaded the video from the conference below.  Joshua's part of the program starts at around minute 37.   The video talks about Christy's Legacy of Hope (a sweet organization that helps orphans), an adoptive mom of 9 also shared her story, and lastly Joshua shared his story.  I highly recommend watching this video, it will give you a huge peak inside the world of adoption.    When we started the adoption process with Matthew, we really weren't certain how to proceed.  We had made some phone calls and really felt more confused than ever.  Kind of by "chance", I requested information from CCAI.  There were the only agency that had all their information completely printed and perfectly organized.  We immediately had the list of every homestudy agency in Ohio, referrals from over 50 families living in our area and a break down of all the costs, simply laid out.  I had tried for months to figure all of this out and here it was just like that.

Matthew and Joshua

We had never heard about CCAI before this.  We decided to sign up for a phone conference to learn more about them.  This is where we talked to Joshua the first time.  We were blown away.  We were really impressed that we got to speak to Joshua himself, not just a representative.   CCAI is a huge organization and the top person was handling all the incoming families personally.  We loved that the founders were Chinese and that they started it over 20 years ago.  Joshua is a pastor and his wife Lily is an attorney.  They not only have a huge staff in the USA but in China as well.  After using them with Matthew's adoption we didn't have any regrets at all.  Financially they were spot on.  They were there for us all the time if we needed something and travel with them was carefree.  All travelling families are given Lily's personal cell phone to call day or night in addition to a whole list of contacts when you are in China.  And guess who called us when we returned home? -  Joshua himself.  

 I really can't say enough good things about CCAI.  The conference we attended was really amazing.  Really the best part was meeting all the other families.  It is so profound to see all these adopted children walking around who just months or years earlier were living in orphanages.  We were even able to meet another family that lives within an hour of us who are at the same stage of the adoption process as we are.  We might  even get to travel with them! Funny we have to travel to another state to meet each other.