Chad and Rachel Althaus

are adopting a child from United States of America

We are excited to share that we are adopting a child!

The standard questions we are asked often are, “Do you have children? How old are they? Do you want more children?” We are usually pretty honest with our answers and let people know that it wasn’t in the plan for us to only have one child at this point in our marriage. Through our honesty and confession about the stirring to adopt, God brought specific people into our lives to give us a word of encouragement and others who pointed us in the direction of New Life Adoptions. Through these friends and Rachel’s medical diagnosis, God has made the path toward adoption very clear to us. We are eager to follow His lead.

Adoption is very expensive. In order to make adoption a reality for our family, we are inviting others to financially and prayerfully partner with us. The exact amount required by the agency is $24,000. We also have up to $1,750 in additional fees that will be given to the attorney once adoption is finalized.

Any money donated beyond this amount will go towards formula, diapers, clothing, and other expenses related to the needs of our adopted child.

We appreciate your financial partnership greatly.

Adoption Status

Home At Last

Adoption Agency

New Life Adoptions

Updates

  • Update 13

    We’ve been CHOSEN

    December 18, 2024

    We just received a call that we were chosen TODAY by the first mother who saw our book. Sandi had to literally unwrap our books from the packaging to give one to her. She’d seen books last week and asked to see more as she felt there was someone else out there… Then our books arrived on Monday, and she picked US! We don’t quite have the words to express how humbled we feel by this. We are overwhelmed and have much to prepare. It’s a little boy. We’ve saved all of Hudson’s clothes and held tightly to all our baby things as we never knew when or how we’d grow our family. We’re very thankful for that in this moment. Mom will be having a c-section mid-January!! Pray for us, baby, and expectant mom. 💙🩵

    As always thanks so much to each of you for making this possible. We could not do it without your support!!

  • Update 12

    We are officially a waiting family!

    December 13, 2024

    We wanted to first thank each of you again for your generosity and support along this journey. We are including a final photo of the room!

    We are now LIVE on the New Life website, and our book will arrive to the agency on Monday. We are officially a waiting family!! https://newlifeadopt.com/waiting-families/#chadrachel

    We've received much support between this page, Hudson's bake sale, and grants. However, we are still in need of around $12,000. Because of this, Rachel's starting to offer to make balloon arches/garlands for parties and events as another way to fundraise. She has an instagram page called @celebration_elevation if you'd like to follow along!

  • Update 11

    Nursery complete

    December 7, 2024

    We FINALLY finished the nursery!

    Our vision has come together beautifully, and we are so thankful to have it completed. Doing DIY stuff is definitely not easy, and we have a greater appreciation for those who do it!

    When a pregnant mom is in labor, there comes a time when she feels the need to push. It’s her body’s way of saying “it’s time”. Rachel won’t get to experience that with this child, but we can tell you, we’ve felt God speak to us to “push” through to finish this labor of love. He’s telling us pretty clearly that it’s time to get our family book in.

    We appreciate your prayers not only for us but for the precious expectant parents as well as for the baby. May God’s ultimate Will be done as it has throughout the entire process.

    Enjoy a photo of Rachel hanging the fingerprint wallpaper!

  • Update 10

    Nursery update

    November 9, 2024

    We are working so hard on the nursery! We are close to being done but ran into some "snags" that prevented us from completing it at the end of October as we'd hoped. Please pray for us as we are trying our best to finish it up this weekend and that no other issues get in our way of that. Incidentally, our dishwasher broke last night, but we are putting that on hold and getting creative in the interim so we can focus on the nursery LOL

    We've nearly completed our family book to show to expectant parents. We just need to add the nursery pictures!

    I've included a "sneak peek" photo of the room! For those that hadn't seen before, our theme is "Fingerprints of God" based on the song of the same name by Steven Curtis Chapman. It was popular when we were kids. It brings a smile to our faces thinking about singing the lyrics as children not knowing what the future held for us. But God knew :)

    "Never has there been and never again will there be another you.
    Fashioned by God's hand and perfectly planned to be just who you are.
    What he's been creating since the first beat of your heart is a living, breathing, priceless work of art.

    I can see the fingerprints of God when I look at you.
    I can see the fingerprints of God, and I know it's true
    you're a masterpiece that all creation quietly applauds
    and you're covered with the fingerprints of God."

  • Update 9

    Fundraiser success!

    November 4, 2024

    Thank you so much again to each of you who donated to our Adopt Together campaign. Hudson had a very successful bake sale/lemonade stand. He is amazingly still receiving donations from those who were unable to attend. Adding up what we've raised here along with the funds from his stand, we've raised nearly $10,000!! We are still about $16,000 short, but we are incredibly thankful for the amount we've raised so far! It's a gift I am thankful for. I don't quite have the words to convey my gratitude.

    We applied to 6 different adoption grants and received our first rejection letter the Friday before the stand. Through the stand, God reminded us that He's still working and providing despite the rejection. I had no expectations for the stand and truly agreed to him doing it because he wanted a way to help. I am still blown away by the generosity and can't believe how much we actually raised.

    We continue to pray that we will get *something* from the other 5 grants and are diligently trusting God as we anticipate covering a bit of the cost ourselves. We ask for your prayers for this, as well!

$12,394 raised of $18,000 goal
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  • Chris and Cheri Althaus gave $1,000
    We love y’all so much. We are praying for your family and your coming little one.
  • Rachel Mayes gave $300
    Love you guys!!!
  • James & Jenny Basham gave $1,500
    We’re thankful God is allowing us to support you in this journey. We love you guys!
  • Anonymous gave $1,000
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    Praying for your family and the future lucky addition!