The Gammage Family Testimony

 

 
   First of all, I want to express how excited, honoured, and truly blessed we are to be chosen for a BA funded vas reversal!!
We are Robert (31) and Melissa (29) Gammage. We have four children, Brennah (11), Nathan (8), and the twins Kamrynn and Kassidy (6). We live here in unseasonably hot Central Texas. We homeschool and are on the board of our local support group.
    A vas reversal is something we have been researching and praying about for several years. Before we had the twins, we committed our family size to Christ. After the twins, my feelings were if God was  giving them out in twos, the deal was off!! We had the twins in Louisville, Ky just 3 months after we had moved there. We had made no friends that we felt close enough to
ask for help. The church we attended was going through their own troubles and had no time to minister to a family they hardly knew. I can't express what a miserable time this was in my life.
    During this time I really fell away from God and put down many convictions that I had once held dear. We were very alone, and I was very depressed. When the twins were 8 months, we moved back to Texas and with that move brought the opinions of family members. I love my mother dearly, but she was the worse. She could not visit or call without "When is Rob going to
the Dr." coming up. With the twins infancy still fresh in my mind, I set out to break Robert of his convictions. He believed very strongly that sterilization was and is, sin. I prodded, promised, bugged, pleaded, and begged my dear husband to have the vas.    After another Bosnia deployment, I finally broke him. In 1999, he had the vas. He was lying on the table telling me he didn't want it. I knew deep down it was wrong, but I chose to ignore God. Robert, not I went though very deep regret after it was over. He literally mourns the loss of his sterility. He wanted more children and in my selfishness, I sinned. I ignored his wants, desires and convictions.
    As we both have worked to regain lost convictions, I realized that I do want more children. More importantly than that though, I want Robert to feel good about his manhood again. If we never get pregnant, Robert still wants to be made whole again.
 
Melissa Gammage
 

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