Christian film producer Stephen Kendrick heard God commanding him to adopt a child the very same day that their adoptive daughter, Mia, was born.
Stephen Kendrick
In the documentary film “Show Me The Father,” which was released on September 2021, film producer Stephen Kendrick shares the story of how he and his wife came to adopt a little girl into their family. They are a happy family with four children at that time when God threw in a surprise for them.
On February 14, 2011, Stephen and his wife Jill were on a plane to New York when he heard God’s voice. God wanted him to adopt a child.
“The Lord spoke to my heart specifically about adoption and how we needed to be open to adoption,” he recalled. “That caught me off guard. Then I found out my wife had been praying for me for over two years that God would turn my heart toward adoption.”

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Adoption
After that moment, they embark on a 2-year journey of processing to legally adopt a child. After years-long of paperwork and adoption processes, they have been connected to a little girl in China. They flew to China and met Mia, a poor little girl that underwent major heart surgery the day that she was born. The Kendricks then brought the little girl with them and introduced her to their other four children.
“We saw our daughter’s identity completely change. She went from being an unwanted burden in a communist country to being a beloved blessing in a Christian home in America.”
February 14, 2011
The couple later discovered that the day God told them to adopt is the very same day Mia has been born. It is truly a divine appointment from the Lord.
“The same day Nia was born in China was the same day that God spoke to me in that airplane saying, ‘You need to adopt.’ It was an incredible moment of confirmation for us, and just a deeper excitement about what God was doing because we knew it was not by accident that He was leading us to adopt.”
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Reference: Inspiration Ministries