After enduring more than a year-long adoption process, a South Carolina couple has welcomed home their newly adopted daughter just in time for Christmas. Adopted from Guatemala, Sara Ava was just 19 weeks old when she was put in an adoption facility.

"Seventy percent of children in Guatemala are given up due to the country's extreme poverty."

Because of a thriving black market for kidnapped children, the Guatemalan government is very thorough when verifying information about potential adoptive parents. The Shrums have not only seen the process through, but have begun it again, in hopes of adopting another Guatemalan orphan. Read more at TheLancasterNews.com.