We are beyond excited and are doing everything we can to be prepared to welcome a beautiful new life into our home. As part of our adoption process, we have started a crowdfunding campaign. It may surprise you to hear that adoption related costs can easily total up to $35,000 or more. This is why we have set a goal of $10,000 to help ease the financial burden that often overwhelms adoptive parents. We need to raise $4,397.50 in order to make our next payment toward agency and dossier fees by June 9.
As we have traveled over the past 17 years (and 12 years of actually living abroad), we have seen so many children who do not have the blessing of a family to love and nurture them. In the developing world there are needs all around us. Needs are endless, but we have learned that if we can focus on the people God has placed in our lives, we can make a significant impact on those few people. We know that we cannot meet the needs of everyone in Asia, but we know God values each and every life and that we can offer a loving, nurturing, and empowering environment for a little one to grow into the human God created him or her to be.
Before we were married, we had discussed the idea of adoption as something we wanted to pursue at some point. As we began to add biological children to our family, we continually looked at adoption as another way of adding to our family and spoke with others who had adopted. We have waited for a long time, but we are now at the point in our lives where we a ready and able to add to our family through adoption.
We hope that by inviting you into this process, you will see yourself as part of the community we hope to build around our child as he or she grows up.
