A heart touching story-Family Adopts Baby with Stage-4 Cancer

Adopting a child is an extremely rewarding experience for many families.
But for one family in particular, it taught them to ”practice what they preach.”
After hearing about the 7.0 earthquake in Haiti in 2010, which claimed the lives of more than 300,000 people, leaving hundreds of thousands of children without parents, 10-year-old Ryan Elizabeth White started pressuring her parents to open their home to an orphan.
Ryan offered what money she had–handing over her piggy bank.
“She would cry at night, and I’d say, ‘Honey, we can pray for them,’” Shelly recalls. “We said, ‘This is not something we can do right now because it costs a lot of money.’ And she’s like, ‘Here’s my piggy bank. Take it.’”
Even as holidays approached, Ryan would ask for donations instead of toys. “She literally would not let this go,” her mother said.
Although the young girl was relentless at urging her family to adopt a child into their Christian home in Louisville, Kentucky, her mother, Shelly, didn’t think it was possible. Shelly and her husband had been struggling through the recession. They even had to trade their expansive home and property for a small rental and drained their savings.

The young girl’s persistence eventually brought the family together and after stumbling upon the orphan advocacy group Show Hope, one child captured their hearts.
Heartbroken to learn that Mya, a one-year-old girl living in a Chinese orphanage, had stage-4 cancer known as rhabdomyosarcoma, cancer of the connective tissue, in her pelvis, and maybe only one year to live, they jumped on the opportunity to bring her to the US.

“I had a mother’s love for her right away,” Shelly told ABC News.
Despite the fact that adoption would cost around $20,000 and Shelly worried about how another child could fit into their three-bedroom, one-bathroom house, the four children “bombarded” her and her husband, to adopt Mya.
“My six-year-old said, ‘We have room in our hearts, Mom,’” said Shelly. “I said, ‘We do. You’re right.’ We were responding with logic and they were responding with love.”
Mya arrived on May 7 and the Kosair Children’s Hospital in Louisville committed to treating her at no cost.
 
 by Elysia McMahan