Thirteen years ago, a one-month-old baby girl was left in a cardboard box at a China train station—unwanted, unloved and unnamed.
Today, she is a singing sensation named McKenzie Grace Walker who is using her powerhouse vocals to praise the name of Jesus and make his name known throughout the world.
But McKenzie’s miraculous journey never could have been made possible without the faithfulness of her parents, Chuck and Kim, who felt a specific calling upon their lives to adopt a little girl from China.
After welcoming their first adopted child into their home in 2000, it was pressed upon the couple’s hearts to adopt another daughter.
At this point McKenzie was one year old, and though she couldn’t speak yet, the Walkers were about to find out that their little one was made to be a voice unto the world.
“When we got home from China, we just walked in the door and we had a chime clock in our kitchen,” recalls Kim. “She heard the chime, and she walked up to it and looked at it and mimicked the sound exactly on pitch.”
The couple was in complete awe of her ability to carry such a harmonious tune at the ripe age of one. And that was only the beginning of McKenzie’s love affair with music.
“Wherever we went, she would hum along with music,” says Kim. “It became obvious that it was just a part of who she was.”
McKenzie would sing at the grocery store, while she was playing, and would even orchestrate concert programs when friends were over.
By the time she was five, she was already performing in front of crowds and told her parents she wanted to be a “famous singer” when she grows up.
Well, this talented teen has accomplished just that.
