We have BIG news!
We are adopting a child!
We are Joe and Kari we have been married for 15 years and we have been trying for past 10 years we we did tried everything to start a family we did couple round of IVF and embryo donor we we didn’t achieve a positive pregnancy, we took couple years off and start being a couple. As our hearts has healed we are moving forward on adoption. We are beyond excited and are doing everything we can to be prepared to welcome a beautiful new life into our home. We have passed our home study and did our hours for adoption now it’s time to show our profile to birth families. 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 $50,000.00 to help ease the financial burden that often overwhelms adoptive parents.
Paperwork Complete
Before we were even married we talked a lot about what building our family would look like and as we thought about our future children, adoption was a part of the dream we held close to our hearts. We didn't know much about the practical steps toward adopting, so we slowly began to learn more and kept praying.
The more we prayed and learned the more convinced we became that adoption was for us. We sensed a deep assurance that we not only wanted to become parents, but that we wanted to grow our family through adoption. We want to be used in whatever way God sees fit in the life of an expectant mother/family, we want to be of service to the adoption community, we want our hearts to be shaped by God (who adopted us into His family) and, of course, we want to welcome a new, precious life into our home.
We are in the midst of the joyful blurr of officially stepping into adoption and are doing everything we can to be prepared for all that is to come on this journey. In the US, 33% of couples consider adoption; however, 79% of the families are deterred by the high costs, and in the end only 2% adopt.
Our prayer is that by inviting you into this process, through prayer and/or a financial gift (both are deeply valuable to us!), you will experience the joy of being a part of the ministry and miracle of adoption. Our deepest desire is that you will be a part of the community that our child grows up loving (and being loved by), learning from, and making lifelong memories with. You mean so much to us and we are so thankful for your support.
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.
