We have BIG news!
We are adopting a Sibling group of 3 from Hungary!
We are beyond excited and are doing everything we can to be prepared to grow our family as the Lord has so sweetly opened the doors for. 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 $40,000 or more (especially for sibling groups). This is why we have set a goal of $20,000 to help ease the financial burden that often overwhelms adoptive parents.
Ways to consider giving:
One time gift
Recurrent monthly gifting
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. Here's a bit more about how our story first started:
Our adoption journey began on a Sunday afternoon in the fall of 2019. We had just gotten in the car to head home after church and Cherie turned to me and said “I’m ready to adopt”. The Lord had told her that it was time to pursue adoption. It caught me off guard because it wasn’t a conversation we had actively been having, in fact children had always been a point of tension in our relationship. When Cherie and I were dating the topic had come up and she didn’t feel the desire to have children and I did. Together we decided that we wanted to follow the Lord’s will and that we would allow Him to change our hearts as He saw fit. He was faithful! If you know Cherie well, then you know that when she makes up her mind, she’s going to act. That same Sunday we reached out to a friend who had just adopted and he and his wife kindly talked to us that same week. They recommend their adoption agency, Lifeline. It seemed to have the same ministry goal as we do and we began praying about who to go with. That Sunday, Cherie was working, so I went to church on my own. When I arrived, I saw a booth setup in the atrium for Lifeline; it was orphan Sunday! It felt clear what God was trying to communicate to us. We contacted Lifeline and planned to begin the process at the start of the New Year. However, as best laid plans often are, ours were laid to waist. The pandemic hit, I was furloughed, difficulties arose with Cherie graduating residency and starting a new job, and we were unable to save up what we needed for the first large payment. God is faithful, though. He reminded us of His promises, of His love for the unloved, that He never leaves us nor forsakes us. He reminded us that though we were having difficulties, He was not. We started leaning into His strength and not our own, and by the end of November 2020, we had been able to save and raise enough money to submit our application and start on the road to adopt a sibling group from a country where these children may never hear the name of Jesus.
