We are thrilled to announce that we are in the adoption process again, preparing to bring home another beloved son!! We didn't plan or expect to find ourselves adopting again so soon after bringing JJ home (just last year) but we are so excited about our newest son and can't wait for him to be home, living and being loved in our family! We saw this precious ones profile on a waiting child listing and prayed, and prayed, and prayed, for a family for him. After about 4 months of praying for him (and his future family- haha!) we felt like God was stirring our hearts, asking us if we would be willing to be the answer to our own prayers. Would we be the family to forever call this boy our son?? And so here we are, stepping out in faith to bring home our second son with some medical needs, the extent of which we won't fully know until he is home.
And that brings us to you, our friends and family. First, thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who helped us bring EB home in 2009, and JJ in 2012. They wouldn't be here without your generosity and support! Asking for help (and again!) is not easy for me, is not something that I do well with... but I think God must be
trying to teach me something because here we are again, in a position where we really need some help, which means asking for help. We would be so grateful if you would most importantly PRAY for us, for our son who is waiting, for the process, for however you feel led to pray. We would also be super grateful to anyone who feels led to partner with us financially and help us in this journey. Adoption costs a lot... our agency has told us that we are looking at between $28-$30K USD... eeeekk!
Soooo to help with the cost, we have 2 main fundraisers that we are doing. The first is simply a way to donate money for our adoption through GoFundMe. A very generous donor has agreed to match every dollar that is donated up to $3000. Right now we are at $1100, so with the donors gift we are really at $2200! So grateful! The second fundraiser we are doing is through a wonderful organization called Chrome Buffalo, which was started by some dear friends of ours. We will receive $11 for every t-shirt purchased through our drive on Chrome Buffalo. Our 10 day chrome buffalo drive is HERE and starts today sept 29th and will finish Oct 9th... so if you want a shirt be sure to get one quickly :)
Thank you to everyone who has come alongside us, prayed with us, encouraged us, and helped us bring our kiddos home. We are forever grateful, forever changed by the blessing of our kids! I'll be posting updates here on the blog about our process and also about our son as/if we get any. His 4th birthday is coming up in the spring. It would be a real miracle if we were able to travel by then, be with him for his birthday, but we are expecting that it will more likely be summer of 2014 before we get to bring him home.
Much love to you all!!!
Sunday, September 29, 2013
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Why adopt???
Why are we adopting??? again??? Isn't 4 kids enough??? and 2 of them adopted??? Why adopt again??? Oh I wish that I had a gift with words so that I could do this question justice... Why? because there are children who need families. Why? because I've experienced firsthand, through the adoption of my youngest brother, the difference a family can make in the life of a child. Why? because I've been blessed immeasurably by the gift of growing my own family through adoption. Why? because children with special needs are children too. They deserve to have a family who loves them and values them and accepts them, a family who can provide the care that their biological family felt unable to provide. Why? because God says in his word to care for the orphans and widows, to *show* love...
In the late 1980's my family was living in Hong Kong, which is now technically part of Ch*na. One morning my mom was reading an article in the local newspaper about girls in HK who were facing crisis pregnancies (in the chinese culture at that time sex wasn't talked about, girls often didn't know how they got pregnant, how long they had been pregnant etc)... and how these dear girls were going across the border into Ch*na to have late term (third trimester) abortions. My parents hearts were broken hearing how these young, young, and I mean *young*, girls felt they had no option but to have an abortion (that or be disowned/kicked out of home/on the streets). As a result of this, my parents started Mother's Choice... an organization that provided an alternative for girls who found themselves in this situation. It was a place where these girls could choose. They could choose life, choose to give birth to their babies, choose to parent them or choose to release them for adoption... Mother's Choice provided support, counseling, a place to live, job training... and also provided a loving home for these precious children who were waiting to be adopted. This is where I grew up. I grew up around precious girls who courageously chose life for their unborn babies, around precious girls who courageously chose to parent these little ones, around precious girls who courageously chose to release their children for adoption... This is where my heart for orphans was born.
We have adopted 2 precious children so far and are in the process of bringing home our 3rd (with 2 biological kids that makes 5 altogether! eek!)... who knows if this will be our last ;-) All we know is that we are trying to live out a life of obedience, a life of love, a life that shows that each and every life is valued, treasured, purposed. Adoption is not easy (and I'm not talking about the paperwork,or the waiting), there's lots of pain and heartache and difficulty in it but it is without a doubt oh.so.worth.it. Each of my children are worth it.
PS If you're interested in reading more about by parent's story you can get my Dad's book HERE.
http://waitingforafather.com/
In the late 1980's my family was living in Hong Kong, which is now technically part of Ch*na. One morning my mom was reading an article in the local newspaper about girls in HK who were facing crisis pregnancies (in the chinese culture at that time sex wasn't talked about, girls often didn't know how they got pregnant, how long they had been pregnant etc)... and how these dear girls were going across the border into Ch*na to have late term (third trimester) abortions. My parents hearts were broken hearing how these young, young, and I mean *young*, girls felt they had no option but to have an abortion (that or be disowned/kicked out of home/on the streets). As a result of this, my parents started Mother's Choice... an organization that provided an alternative for girls who found themselves in this situation. It was a place where these girls could choose. They could choose life, choose to give birth to their babies, choose to parent them or choose to release them for adoption... Mother's Choice provided support, counseling, a place to live, job training... and also provided a loving home for these precious children who were waiting to be adopted. This is where I grew up. I grew up around precious girls who courageously chose life for their unborn babies, around precious girls who courageously chose to parent these little ones, around precious girls who courageously chose to release their children for adoption... This is where my heart for orphans was born.
We have adopted 2 precious children so far and are in the process of bringing home our 3rd (with 2 biological kids that makes 5 altogether! eek!)... who knows if this will be our last ;-) All we know is that we are trying to live out a life of obedience, a life of love, a life that shows that each and every life is valued, treasured, purposed. Adoption is not easy (and I'm not talking about the paperwork,or the waiting), there's lots of pain and heartache and difficulty in it but it is without a doubt oh.so.worth.it. Each of my children are worth it.
PS If you're interested in reading more about by parent's story you can get my Dad's book HERE.
http://waitingforafather.com/
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