We have BIG news!
We are adopting!
We are beyond excited and are doing everything we can to be prepared to welcome a beautiful new life into our home.
As part of our adoption process, we have started a crowdfunding campaign. It may surprise you that adoption-related costs can easily total up to $45,000 or more! This is why we have set a goal of $40,000 to help ease the financial burden that often overwhelms adoptive parents.
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!
Thank you for being a part of this incredible story God is writing.
We love you!
xo, Glen and Jessica
Hello and welcome dear friends & family!
First and foremost, we are beyond thankful for your support, prayers, encouragement, and love and could not have gotten to this point on our journey without you. Many of you know our story has had lots of highs and lows, twists and turns, and has been stop and go - but the Lord has been faithful in and through it all. If there is one thing we've learned over the last few years of beginning and pausing, and changing paths - it's that there is a lot of waiting involved in this journey - and it's often in the waiting where God is doing some of His most important and most refining work.
This will be a space where we will post updates on our adoption process as they come. Sometime there will be more to share, and other times there will be stretches of "quiet" when we are in a waiting phase.
We invite you to join us in prayer while in the waiting:
For Wisdom
“If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you.” - James 1:5
For Strength and Endurance
“Look to the Lord and his strength; seek his face always.” - 1 Chronicles 16:11
For Courage
“Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the Lord your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you.” - Deuteronomy 31:6
For God’s Will
“Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is- his good, pleasing and perfect will.” - Romans 12:2
For the Birth Parents
“Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.” - I Corinthians 13: 6-8
For Protection of our Hearts
“But let all who take refuge in you be glad; let them ever sing for joy. Spread your protection over them that those who love your name may rejoice in you.” - Psalm 5:11
For the Child
“For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made: your works are wonderful, I know that full well.” -Psalm 139: 13-14
For Joy
“He will yet fill your mouth with laughter and your lips with shouts of joy.” - Job 8:21
For Thanksgiving
“Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise, give thanks to him and praise his name.” Psalm 100:4
In hopeful expectation,
Jessica & Glen
