We have BIG news!
We are adopting a child!
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 $25,000 to help ease the financial burden that often overwhelms adoptive parents. By partnering with Adopt Together, your donation is tax deductable.
We are also seeking grants and will have other fundraisers through this process. We are excited to be partnering with Christian Family Services of the Midwest and are in the paperwork phase of the process.
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/she grows up.
Every Blessing,
Jacob and Daisy Burgan
Could you say a 10 second prayer?
We were promised all last week that we would receive a piece of paper to sign that would move the process forward of our foster to adopt situation. We have been put off for over a week now. Can you pray for the bureauocracy and red tape to end so we can bring our kiddo home?
This is Ashley, she is 13 years old. She has been waiting for permanency for a long time. Our caseworkers have told us that the normal time for fostering until adoption is 6 months. We believe she was meant to be in our family, and are hoping that this time is lessened. Whatever funding is not used for this adoption, will be put toward another adoption for our family, or be used to help another family. We believe this is just the beginning of the building of our family through adoption. Thank you for being a part of our village.
I remember getting flipped off for holding this sign up in front of the abortion clinic on Roe Avenue on the Kansas side. I thought surrendering to adoption would make the road easier, not so much. Two days after we signed up the devouring began. You’ve seen my posts, you know the story. There was no coincidence. Standing for life, in the place of intercession like Rachel weeping for her children, like Hannah crying out for Samuel has a cost in the spirit realm. My skin has gotten thicker, my heart has gotten more tender and my voice has gotten bolder.
One baby is alive today because of our story and the prayers of people who believed.
3 babies died.
One belonged to a teenager in fostercare who had 20 placements by the time this baby came along. I was connected to her in December, opened my heart and home to her and her baby, but it was too late. The damage had already been done. I was devastated by her decision, but it made sense considering her experiences. It was then that we opened our heart to fostercare and have now become Fosterparents.
Adoption is our calling, and we know it is not for everyone. Please pray, support and wrap around the ones in your midst. If one family in every church in America adopted one child out of fostercare we could empty out the system. This is also what it means to be prolife. Please continue to pray for the teenager that we are contending for.
#mylifedoesnotbelongtome
#prolife #prolifefeminist #adoption #fostercare
Hey Friends,
This week has been full of joy and happy tears. In May in the midst of the two private adoption situations I received a text from a dear friend who is a CASA advocate for a child in foster care who needs a forever home. As we learned more about this child and the situation we knew that we are supposed to be involved.
Due to the nature of the situation there is not much we cannot share publicly. What I can say is that we are spending the summer building relarionship with this child, and receiving extra training to ensure that we can be the best parents possible. I will say that these trainings are ones that either Jake or I have gone through in the past, but are repackaged a bit. We are submitting to the process, even though it feels like more red tape.
1. Pray that this child has stable placement through the summer and is not moved from the current home. Pray for heart healing.
2. One big answer to prayer happened last week, after an almost 5 year battle, parental rights have been terminated, making adoption possible.
3. Pray for grace for us in the process. This kiddo is older, but just feels like this child was made for our family.
Thank you for believing in us and supporting us throughout this rollercoaster ride.
Hey Ya’ll,
When it rains it pours. The dry spell broke in February with the birth mom that we were connected with. Though that situation did not turn out the way we thought it would it was hopeful to have movement after so long. This then opened our heart to a second situation and now a third that we once again have to keep close because thats how this works.
There are some prayer warriors who joined our cause in October 2021 who have been like spiritual special forces, alongside the intercessors who assembled in August of 2020. Add that to the fellowship that God has placed us in and there is a company of people who are our village.
Through it all a few things have been made clear:
1. We are not alone, and we do not have to do this alone
2. Our lives do not belong to us and God has a plan for the children that he is placing in our family
3. Nothing looks like we thought it would in the beginning
Who knows if the struggle of the last three years was our gestation period to be equipped for these precious ones?
“All along, let us remember,
we are not asked to understand,
but simply to obey…
‘And only Heaven is better
than to walk with Christ at midnight,
over moonless seas–‘
I couldn’t feel frightened then.
Praise Him for the moonless seas–
all the better the opportunity
for proving Him to be indeed the El Shaddai,
‘the God who is Enough.’”
(~Amy Carmichael)
It was wonderful to see many of you at The Flood, and The Send. The two weeks leading up to it were quite eventful for us. Here is the update:
We were given an ultimatum by text at 9pm on Mother's Day to make a decision about the infant boy that we were matched with. Originally it was a private match, but the birthmom went with an agency. They lowered the amount from $53,000 to $35,000. Neither Jake nor I were comfortable with this, as we would be forced to come up with $20,000 in one to two weeks, which would not give time to apply for and receive grants. To our pain, we said no. Due to the nature of how this organization is operating we will be reporting them to the state because unethical practices were uncovered during our engagement with them. Please pray for this little boy and that he finds that home that God has intended for him.
I just got off the phone with the social worker at the Florida agency over the Little one, Roman, 5 years old with CP and Global developmental delay who we were in discussion about. After meeting with his parents and the social worker through zoom and looking through his medical records that were provided, and committing the matter to prayer we have determined that his level of disability is more than we can undertake in our rural area with limited supports. I have passed his case on to see if we can help in networking to find a forever family for him. If any of you are interested in helping. I can send you some basic information so that you can contact his social worker and agency.
We have decided to remain in relationship with the agency that we dialoged with about Roman as they share our values and have a $24,000 rate for their adoptions which would be attainable for us with our adoption account and grants for a private adoption.
I was able to finish up school on Friday as we were allowed to check out early so we did not have to come in today. Jake is finishing up a job, and I am taking a slower pace and playing catch up on household things that have fallen behind with the hectic May schedule. And of course I will have my fingers in the dirt, growing and planting things. Love ya'll and thanks for praying and standing with us. We believe that breakthrough is around the corner.
