Florida Adoption Story

From China with love
When Jim and Marita Watson were married in 2000, they were already looking for ways to grow their family. Three days after their honeymoon, they began the paperwork to bring their first child home from China.

The Watsons met through the singles Sunday school class of Jacksonville’s First United Methodist Church. Marita, who had been married before, had two high school age children at the time, but knew Jim wanted to experience raising children of his own.

They began to look at their options for adopting a child and found their ideal solution when Jim’s aunt, Sandy Primm, who works for Sav-A-Life in Birmingham, told them about the children in China.