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Answer God's calling and find your purpose in parenting with this mother's transracial adoption journey. Children should feel unconditionally valued and accepted regardless of birth circumstance, race, or ability-and Trisha Campbell and her family rose to this challenge. After a search for faith inspired her to care for hungry orphans in a third-world country, she heard God's calling and adopted five children to join her biological three. Life in one big, transracial family can be difficult, especially when many in society don't think White families should adopt kids of color. But when God is in the lead, every day is an adventure-never lonely, never boring. A heartfelt memoir of God's grand design for her life purpose, Eight Was Enough chronicles a devoted Christian parent's journey in trusting God with unwavering faith to create a divinely inspired, transracial family. Full of spiritual insight for parents on their own adoption or fostering adventure, this true story will guide you through the sometimes difficult but always rewarding and adventurous path of adding a child to your home-and your heart. You'll discover: How to find your purpose in parenting, the saving love of God, and truth of the scripture. Multilayered challenges faced by parents and foster parents during the adoption and foster care process. Encouraging guidance for the unique difficulties of raising a boy or girl with special needs. Relatable, amusing anecdotes collected while raising eight kids-because they say and do the darnedest things and sometimes you just need a laugh! Creative parenting advice to handle discipline, difficult topics, tantrums, chores, and more. A family is created through love and God's purpose, not color or ability. Get Eight Was Enough now for the inspiration and hope to answer the calling on your own parenting adventure, no matter what comes your way.

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"""An exciting, captivating, difficult-to-put-down book on family life. A must read. This book is valuable not only for adoptive parents with transracial or special needs children, but for all parents, or would be parents. If one desires to discover God's purpose for their lives, wants to know how unity can be achieved in family life, and seeks creative, loving, and effective ways of raising their children, this book is for you."" -Rev. Dr. R James Tasker, Author, Nations Are God's Idea: Exposing and Countering the Assault on Sovereignty ""With unusual honesty Trisha shares her story of raising a unique family. From adopted toddlers to troubled teens to supernatural encounters with our heavenly Father who understands it all, her life will encourage you wherever you are in your own journey!"" -Susan Alexander Yates, bestselling author and speaker ""Trisha K. Campbell has written what will become a parenting/family classic...This book is real. It is not just theory. It presents parenting in all its nitty-gritty. Success as well as ""failure"" is given. Along with parenting skills, this book will increase any Christian's faith. It will encourage the reader to follow the direction of the Holy Spirit and trust God to provide where He leads. I highly recommend this book to all...engaging and inspirational."" -Readers' Favorite 5-star Review"

An exciting, captivating, difficult-to-put-down book on family life. A must read. This book is valuable not only for adoptive parents with transracial or special needs children, but for all parents, or would be parents. If one desires to discover God's purpose for their lives, wants to know how unity can be achieved in family life, and seeks creative, loving, and effective ways of raising their children, this book is for you. -Rev. Dr. R James Tasker, Author, Nations Are God's Idea: Exposing and Countering the Assault on Sovereignty With unusual honesty Trisha shares her story of raising a unique family. From adopted toddlers to troubled teens to supernatural encounters with our heavenly Father who understands it all, her life will encourage you wherever you are in your own journey! -Susan Alexander Yates, bestselling author and speaker

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Trisha K. Campbell is a mother, author, and advocate. After questioning her faith and volunteering in a third-world country, Trisha realized her true calling and God's purpose for her life. After having three biological children, she and her husband added five more children to their family through foster care and transracial adoptions. Though a blended family with several special needs children didn't come without challenges, God helped them through every difficulty as they responded in loving obedience to His clear calling. Learn more at trishakcampbell.com.

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