We have BIG NEWS! We are ADOPTING!
We've been praying about adoption and have officially started the process of welcoming a beautiful new little girl into our home. As part of our adoption process, we have started a fundraiser campaign to raise funds to bring our girl home. Adoption costs roughly 40,000 dollars, and without your help and God's mighty hand, we can't afford to carry out God's commandment.
God says in James 1:27 “Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world”
Adam and I knew very little about adoption before our friend Sara Jo gave a presentation on adoption at our church sharing their family’s journey to bring home their daughter from India. During the presentation, she shared her heart for adopting children to love and teach them the gospel which really tore at our hearts. Ever since hearing the presentation, Adam and I haven’t been able to shake the statistics and heartbreaking stories her and her husband have shared with us. We have since felt led by God to advocate and carry out the calling to adopt an orphan from India.
India alone has 31 million orphans looking for homes, 18 million being female. In India, females are often not cherished by their families because they are seeking sons to carry on their last name, and because males carry religious significance in the afterlife of their religion. Many little girls are killed by their families or put in orphanages to sit in cribs until a family adopts them. Most orphanages don’t have enough staff to give the children individual time, play with them, take them out of their cribs, or even know their names. At the age of 7, children are aged out of the orphanage in India due to lack of funds and most children turn to sex trafficking or shelters. Don’t let the word shelter fool you. The shelters in India are just a building with a roof, where the children are living among men and women of all ages with no one directly caring for them.
In Psalms 82:3-4 God states, “Defend the weak and the fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.”
Also, just a reminder. God made the whole world, not just America. In our story, we specifically feel the call from God to India due to the dire situation regarding the abundance of orphans, specifically little girls.
This is where you can help. Please pray and think over the next few months if you're able to assist us in bringing our new daughter home. Anything from a donation, a card, prayers or showing your support for our adoption would be appreciated. We know every step until we bring home our daughter will be rough and tedious, but we can't wait to teach her about Jesus and become her mommy and daddy.
