Oschean Ulmer

is adopting a child from United States of America

We are excited to let everyone know that we are starting an adoption journey! We've been on this journey for a little while now working on paperwork and now we've been approved to be adoptive parents! Some of you know that we've had a bit of a difficult journey trying to start a family and after disappointments, we are excited and hopeful to adopt. It's funny to think that when we were 18 and 19, we talked about adoption as being part of our future and now almost eleven years later, that is coming to fruition. We are currently applying to adopt through two agencies. We are working with an international agency in California,and we are we are also working with a domestic agency here in Alberta, Canada. Why two agencies? We would eventually love to have more than one child. Once we get a match with one agency, the other one will put our case on hold for a year. Then, we can proceed with the second agency after that. With California, we are looking at about a 12 month wait. At this time, the average wait time with Alberta is about three years. These wait times don't include all the months we've spent just applying to be adoptive parents! Our adoptions will be open-adoptions, which means we will have some form of contact with the birth parents. We think this has the potential to be a wonderful opportunity for all who are involved. Please pray for our future expectant mother and her baby(s). We are working with an adoption agency in California and waiting for a match! For the domestic adoption, we've got training sessions and more work ahead of us. How you can support us Please pray the birth parents and our future children. We want our birth mother to have a healthy pregnancy and we want God's grace to comfort her. We want the expectant parents to feel content, and even happy, knowing that we will love our child(ren). Each parent is in a unique situation and the decisions they make are incredibly difficult. We have applied to adopt up to two children with California, so that could mean twins! We want to sincerely thank you for supporting us financially! Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. (James 1:17) NIV


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