About Ayaan Thomas

They say miracles are dead these days, but I don’t think that is true. I think people just don’t talk about them. Hello! My name is Ayaan Thomas, and I am a Somali-born, US citizen brought to America by a South African woman who was a doctor working with the United Nations. She worked in Somali at the time of my birth and went to great lengths so that I would be called her daughter! I faced some dangers during my birth, but God had other plans! I was separated from my family and spent twelve years searching for them. I had lost contact due to a civil war in Somalia. I went to school in New York City, a boarding school in a tiny town called Bell Buckle, Tennessee, and then transferred to Hume-Fogg High School in Nashville. After attending David Lipscomb University in Tennessee, I transferred to Stony Brook University in Long Island, New York, to help my aging mother. She urged me to go live my life and see the world and encouraged me to join the Air Force. I served our country in Virginia for four years, met my husband and was deployed to Iraq. We got married, had two handsome boys, lived in Washington state, Japan and Germany. In Germany is when our sweet daughter joined our family from Ethiopia after waiting two years for adoption papers to be finalized! She completed our little crew and is such a great blessing to all of us! My husband is retired from the Air Force after serving 20 years. I am hopeful for what the future holds!