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Adam and Mary Hoyt have lived and ministered in Clarkston, Georgia since 2006. Clarkston is an international community on the east side of Atlanta, where the Hoyt family lives alongside refugees from around the world. The Hoyts minister to and care for refugees, as well as run several programs which help residents of Clarkston find jobs, learn to drive, and navigate life in the United States.

Here, we talk with Mary about the new ministry focused on vulnerable children she has launched, More Than Enough, and her journey through the adoption process.

“In 2009, the desire to grow our family through adoption became a clear calling for both Adam and me. We started intensively researching adoption options. We were surprised to find that, in Georgia, there are very few children under the age of eight in need of adoptive homes. Our biological twin girls were four years old at the time. We wanted to maintain our birth order and keep the girls as our oldest children.

“As we researched international programs, we knew that we wanted to make a life-long commitment to learning from and serving the country from which our child was adopted. Before researching adoption, we knew very little about the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

“Our hearts grieved as the statistics flashed across our computer screens – ‘Five million children who have lost at least one parent due to …;’ ‘the longest-running civil war….;’ ‘the largest UN peacekeeping force in the world…’

“I thought, ‘Why have I never heard about this conflict and the desperate needs of this country?’

“We completed the adoption of our son, Moses, in the summer of 2011. We worked through Our Family in Africa, a non-profit that facilitates adoptions and mobilizes adoptive parents and their communities to continue to care for vulnerable children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo through a variety of programs for children-at-risk, including feeding programs, children’s homes, and schools.

“In 2011, when I traveled to the Democratic Republic of the Congo to bring Moses home, I visited a children’s home called FIDES. I spent time throughout my trip with the director, Georgette Nyembo.

“Georgette is a woman who has donated her own inheritance, her land, and her own salary as a professor at the local university to develop a home for more than 50 former street children.

“Through More Than Enough, I hope to support Georgette and other indigenous leaders like her to further develop what they are already doing to care for vulnerable children. Georgette is interested in developing a social work program to research potential suitable kinship placements for some of the children. More Than Enough’s role will be to connect Georgette and other local leaders with needed funding and training opportunities. We will also find local and international mentors to advance the quality of care FIDES offers, to develop programs of self-sustainability, and to develop social work programs to facilitate and follow up with family re-unifications when possible. We will also assist young adults as they transition out of FIDES into independent living.

“I’m excited about More Than Enough being under the direction of The Mission Society. I think The Mission Society has a wide body of resources, connections, and experience that will help More Than Enough to more effectively empower indigenous leaders in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

“For so long I’ve wanted to do something more for the needs I encountered while in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. But I’ve always thought, ‘I have so little extra time, so little extra money.’ But the Lord spoke clearly to my heart and asked me to, in faith, give him what I have to give. Just like the young boy who gave Jesus his lunch. In Him, He assured me, there is more than enough for every need.”

To support the ministry of More Than Enough, please make a donation to Project #0860.