This father gave his daughter up for adoption right at the birth, what happened 24 years later is nothing short of a miracle!

Perceptive Child

Amy was three years old now and a perceptive child. It did not take her long to notice that her skin color was not the same as that of her parents. It was not only her but the kids at the nursery school too saw what they thought was confusing. When they asked her, the little girl never had an answer because she did not know that she had been adopted.

Truth Time

There was no one else other than her mother who could help little Amy dispel her confusion so one day in her innocence she asked her why she was dark and she and dad white? The mother having observed the perceptive nature of the child was prepared for the question to pop up at some time or another. She was actually waiting for Amy to ask her and calmly told her that she was adopted.

Opening The Book

The adoptive mother patiently filled the curious Amy Roberson with as many details of her past and the identity of her parents as she knew. Amy was informed that her birth mother was of Mexican-American origin and her birth father was black. She also told Amy her birth parents’ names too. Amy grew up to be the only child in her adoptive family but she always wondered about her birth family and if she had any siblings.

Identity Crisis

Even though Amy was loved by her adoptive parents as she was growing up, she always felt a little alien among the white folks. She knew she belonged somewhere else and she wanted to meet her biological parents, get to know them, she wanted answers to so many questions. If she knew that the answers were hiding right under her nose, she won’t have gone to lengths to find her parents.

Where Was Will?

Meanwhile, unaware of the whereabouts of his daughter, Will with all the determination it took, tried to shift the course of his life. It had been a long time since he had broken up with the woman who gave birth to Amy but breaking up with drugs and alcohol, he found harder to do.

In 2004, he surrendered himself to faith and in his own words, he “found Christ”. This helped him get past his addictions and in 2007 he turned into a pastor.

Not Too Far

Amy was living in the city of Avondale near Pheonix and her birth father was not too far, forty miles away in Chandler, Arizona. Yes, Amy, was the daughter Will Russell had abandoned 23 years ago. Amy was now determined to look for her family. It was the age of internet and many people had managed to find their long-lost relatives, lovers or acquaintances via Facebook, it would not be too surprising if Amy managed to do it too.