( CNN ) The boy who asked a church to help him find a forever parent finally has one . Desperate for a home in 2013 , Davion Navar Henry Only dressed up in a suit and borrowed a Bible from the boys home where he lived . Then he headed to a St. Petersburg , Florida , church to make a plea for his own adoption . Now 16 years old , he had lived his entire life in foster care , bouncing from one home to another . The older he got , the less likely it was that he would be adopted . But the Tampa Bay Times documented his journey , and a video of his plea went viral . Thousands of calls came into his agency , and a minster 's family in Ohio asked him to come live with them . But he got into a fight with one of their sons , and they sent him back to Florida . Forever was n't forever in that case . And to the people who asked what went wrong , his social worker had the answer . `` That boy spent his whole life in the system , that 's what went wrong , '' Connie Going told the Tampa Bay Times . Photo helps gets teen adopted . For a year , he went through four more foster homes and would n't speak about what happened in Ohio . Finally , he reached out to Going , the woman who had been there for him since he was 7 . Only had repeatedly asked her to adopt him , but she did n't think that she could be enough for him . She already had three children , ages 21 , 17 and 14 . But something changed in that latest call , and she knew she would finally say yes . So did her three children . Going rented a larger house , and Only moved into the home after his new mom passed the home study . His official adoption date is April 22 . `` I guess I always thought of you as my mom , '' Only told her before Christmas . `` Only now I get to call you that for real , right ? ''
Davion Only took to the pulpit to find a forever home . After some setbacks , his family is set to make it official in April .