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 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... Read more
  • 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... Read more
  • Update 8

    Bake sale/lemonade stand

    October 17, 2024
    Hi everyone! We’ve shared on social media, but we wanted to tell y’all specifically about Hudson’s bake sale/lemonade stand coming up this Saturday, October 19 from 9-12 at our house! He has such a sweet heart and wants to help adopt his sibling. He’s so excited to be a big brother and wants to help every way he can. For each of you who have donated, you are welcome to come and enjoy some free treats as a very small way of saying thank you for how generous and kind you’ve been!! If you don’t have our address, please text... Read more
  • Update 7

    Seminar complete!

    September 15, 2024
    Hello friends, This update is a little bit longer. We are excited to share that we were finally able to attend the required adoption seminar this weekend. This was the seminar that we planned to attend in February but were unable to do so due to Rachel contracting Covid. As many of you know, we chose to take the past few months leading up to seminar to prepare our hearts, work through grief, and really align our plans to God’s. We now see clearly why He allowed us to wait. It was a beautiful weekend full of encouragement. We made... Read more
  • Update 6

    Summer update

    July 30, 2024
    It's been a while since we've posted an update and would like to give you one. Our home study was completed on April 20 and approved. Thank you for your support as all the funding we've received thus far paid for that. The agency is eager to show us to expectant mothers. We've received wisdom from adult adoptees as well as adoptive parents which helped us realize that we needed to take some time to reflect on this process rather than rushing into the adoption. While we've chosen to temporarily "pause" the physical/tangible preparations, we are very actively preparing our... Read more
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