Juan & Erica Barreto

When Juan and Erica got married, the plan was always to have a large family, mixed with biological children and adopted children of all different races and ethnicities. As an already biracial family, we loved the idea of adopting internationally, and the age of a toddler. Fast forward a few years, we had our biological son, Santiago. Shortly after he was born, we decided to have another child but God had other plans. After four and a half years struggling with secondary infertility, we turned our attention back to adoption.

We surrendered our plan to have another biological child around August of this year. In June, we saw a little boy’s profile in the waiting child list. He stole our hearts but we were still tied up in fertility treatments. God kept pushing him onto my heart and for many months, we prayed over him and whether we were right for each other. Wouldn’t you know, this little boy, was everything we had been praying for, for over four years?!

We can now say, we are going after him!! Our process is moving fast. We are in the middle of completing our home study now and aspire to bring him home the summer of 2025!

Will you join us in bringing home our son?? Will you help turn this orphan into a brother and son?