When Kara and Jordan Crockett went on a mission trip to Nigeria, they didn't expect to meet a little boy who would steal their hearts; but they did. Now, a year later, 5-year-old Job will trade his Nigerian orphanage for the Crockett's home in Virginia Beach.

"The first time the adoptive father-to-be saw little Job, he said 'He stood out because [the other kids] always want to be in pictures but he would always stand in the corner. I told Kara it was my goal to make that little boy laugh.'"

Laugh he did. And he felt such a connection with the Crocketts that he got up, by himself, to walk from his orphanage and say good-bye on the morning they left for the States. Kara returned eight months later and was greeted so warmly by Job that she knew she and her husband would be adopting him.

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