Ben & Angie Englerth
are adopting a child from Bulgaria
We have some BIG news! In case you haven’t heard, we are adopting a child from Bulgaria! God has called us to international adoption and has made it abundantly clear He wants us in Bulgaria. We recently received a referral and are now in the process of paperwork and travel to bring our daughter home!
In an effort to prepare ourselves for this process, we decided to start this crowdfunding campaign. It may surprise you to know that international adoption costs can end up totaling up to $50,000-$60,000. This is why we have set a goal of $15,000 to help ease the financial burden that many adoptive parents face.
We hope that by inviting you to contribute, you will see yourself as a part of this process and a part of the community that will surround our child in the years to come. It truly takes a village!
Thank you and God Bless!
Adoption Status
Adoption Agency
Updates
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Update 3
Still Waiting
June 11, 2024It's been too long since we updated here! We get asked often how things are going and the answer seems to always be "still waiting." We are officially updated on all our paperwork and back to waiting.
We are focused now on saving all that we can to be prepared for the exciting day when a referral comes. We will owe $9,300 at that stage of the process and then need to travel for trip one a couple months after (estimate is around $7,500 in expenses for that) so every little bit helps!
We feel more and more a deep sense of longing to meet our child. We pray for her every day, many times multiple times a day. Our children talk about her as if she'll be here next week. We have gained so much peace from the Lord and while this process has been full of challenges, the Lord has used every one of them to refine us and bring us closer to Him.
Please pray for our family as we continue to wait and pray that the Lord will provide in ways only He can for our next step. Thank you!
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Update 2
Almost Done with our Home Study!
September 2, 2022We have had a very busy, but productive week in wrapping things up for our home study. If all goes smoothly, we should have our last visit with our case worker on Thursday and wait for her completion and approval of the home study. Our next step is to complete our dossier. Paperwork has already begun and we anticipate being ready to turn it in sometime in October. This is a huge blessing and answered prayer! As for the financial side of it, we were able to fundraise quite a bit, but still need about $6,000 before we will be able to turn in our dossier. We thank you so much for your contributions in supporting us so far! We ask for your prayers that God will provide what we need when we need it. The best pracitical way you can help us is to simply share our story with everyone you know! The more people that hear about it, the more people God will bring into our journey to support us. Thank you again!
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Update 1
We are entering into our Home Study!
July 2, 2022After a rollercoaster of a couple of months, we are happy to say we are officially contracted with AGCI and enrolled in their Bulgaria program!
Our next steps are to work with our local agency to complete our home study, which generally takes 4-6 months. This process will cost between $3,000 and $4,000. Please pray that God continues to provide financially. Please also pray that the home study goes smoothly and we are able to complete all our paperwork within the given timelines.
As another part of our home study, Ben and I will be completing a minimum of 40 hours of education. Please pray that God provides quiet times for Ben and I to be able to do this well and really absorb all the information.
As always, we thank you for your support!
