heart and pointing it toward Boise. We moved on January 10, 2004 back to Boise after both of my parents went to heaven. Guess who wanted to come with us? Our Conquering Champion in Christ, Chris. He wanted to live with us to see how a Healing Husband and Beautiful Bride relate to each other. He had no idea what marriage looked like due to his father leaving after his mother divorced him when Chris was 3 years old. His mother was physically and emotionally absent from Chris. He had no model for a Healing Husband and Beautiful Bride in a spiritual, emotional and romantic relationship. During the past 12 years, we have spent many hours, days, weeks, months and years counseling and praying for Chris. Our Loving Lord has graciously restored him and healed him in many miraculous ways. He has faced the fear of rejection, fear of failure and fear of abandonment and received Lavish Love, Absolute Acceptance and Victorious Value from Our Living Loving Lord through us. He continues to be healed and he is becoming whole day by day as Our Astonishing Abba works For Us, In Us and Through Us with His miracle of mentoring Chris through us. The miracle of mentoring happens when we allow Our Loving Lord to live through us with the revelation, love, grace, mercy and compassion of our Captivating Christ for Chris. As we have been miraculously mentored from the late great Evangelist Ann Wright, we are able to miraculously mentor Chris. In October of 2006, Chris went to see his father for a week. During that time he asked him why he left and told him how hard it was growing up without a father. (He felt like his dad was a distant uncle he would see once a year for a week.) His father told him that when our father and mother forsake us, the Lord will take us up. (Psalm 27:10) Chris felt like that was a cop-out, and he felt like his father did not take responsibility for abandoning him. He felt like his response was a “religious” escape that his dad used to make Chris “feel better.” Several times during the previous years since we moved to Boise, we asked Chris if he wanted us to adopt him. He felt like he would be betraying his father if he did get adopted. But after that trip he felt that our Loving Lord wanted him to be adopted by us. He needed a new identity.
We found an attorney in Nampa who was willing to take on our case. Several other attorneys said it was too much work for them. We met with Judge Minder at the Ada County Courthouse in Boise on January 24, 2007. After hearing our story she made an exception to the law in Idaho and granted us the adoption. The law states that children over 18 cannot be adopted because they are generally trying to get away from bad debt or they prey on older people to get money. The miracle of mentoring changed her heart and the miracle of adoption was granted by her and Our Loving Lord. We met Chris when he was 18. We adopted him when he was 29. That 11-year period was a time of miracle mentoring. On October 24, 2007 (exactly nine months later), Judge Bieter granted a name change for Chris to our last name. We and Chris had our spiritual destinies forever changed because of the miracle of mentoring. Chris has learned how to drive, wash his clothes, prepare meals, clean, work with integrity with his whole heart (Colossians 3:23), engage in creative conversations and continually be transformed into the image of Christ in ever-increasing splendor day by day. (2 Corinthians 3:18) His fear is being transformed into fun and fulfillment. His hurt is being transformed into hope and healing. His pain is being transformed into peace and power. His trauma is being transformed into tranquility and triumph. Moment by moment. Miracle by miracle. Chris is our Sensational Spectacular Son! He is our successor! The miracle of mentoring can be experienced by anyone who has experienced the miracle of being mentored. Ask Our Loving Lord to reveal his perfect plan for you. n Dr. Dan Woodworth earned his Doctor of Ministry (DMin) degree from the King’s University in Los Angeles in 2009. His passion is to encourage and empower people with the transforming power of hope and healing to become all they are created to be. He and his beautiful bride, Irene, have planted three churches. They are in the process of creating a cross/cultural, cross/generational healing community solving pressing problems in Boise and beyond. He may be reached at dan@danwoodworth.org.
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