Brent & Juli Kilman

Updates

• Update 7

  

  Still Waiting

  May 21, 2025

  Friends,

  Thank you for your persistence in prayer with us as we wait to hear our adoption approved by Thailand. Today, May 21, was another round of approvals and it looks like our file was NOT reviewed today. The details from our adoption agency:

  The next board meeting is scheduled for Thursday, June 5.
  
  The breakdown of the Holt families who continue to wait for first approval of their child match is as follows, from the date that both the family’s dossier and child match acceptance paperwork were sent to Thailand:
  
  1 family has been waiting since October 2023 (1 Special Needs Project case)
  1 family has been waiting since December 2023 (1 SNP case)
  2 families have been waiting since February 2024 (1 SNP case)
  2 families have been waiting since May 2024
  3 families have been waiting since June 2024
  2 families have been waiting since July 2024 (2 SNP cases)
  1 family has been waiting since August 2024 (1 SNP case)
  *** THIS IS US***
  3 families have been waiting since September 2024 (1 SNP case)
  1 family has been waiting since October 2024
  1 family has been waiting since November 2024 (waiting child match)
  6 families have been waiting since January 2025
  1 family has been waiting since March 2025 (1 SNP case)
  2 families have been waiting since May 2025

  Please do keep praying that our file will be reviewed at the next board meeting, June 5, 2025, and we will know our travel date soon! Please also remember the many other families and children waiting to be united through adoption.

  You can see from the updated photo, that our girl has received our family photo book and is being prepared to come home to us. Please pray the Lord will shorten the days we are apart.

  Thank you for supporting us and praying with us through this process!

• Update 6

  The Waiting is the Hardest Part

  April 25, 2025

  Friends, waiting is hard! Our contact with Holt, International, our Adoption Agency, told us this just recently. It reminds me of one of my favorite songs "The Waiting is the Hardest Part" by Tom Petty. We are impatiently waiting, but persistently hopeful, for our opportunity to travel and bring our little girl home to our family!

  We got word this week that the Thai government was reviewing files and, if approved, travel dates are typically 6 months after approval. Unfortunately, our file was not reviewed this week, but we are getting close!

  The next review period is in May, with review board meetings scheduled for Thursday May 8 and Wednesday May 21. If our file is reviewed and approved at that time we may be able to travel in October or November.

  Please join us in praying that our file will be reviewed and approved at that meeting!

  Thanks for your support, and your encouragement, and your prayers for us in this adoption process!

• Update 5

  Matching Gift

  September 23, 2024

  Friends,

  This weekend we completed more paper work and today we mailed in our Dossier documents. Now we wait for Thai and US government agencies to do their thing and we focus on what we can do, which is to pray, prepare, and fundraise. On that front we have EXCITING NEWS in our Adoption: Generous friends have offered a Matching Gift of up to $2,500!
  This is a helpful way to springboard our fundraising and double your impact! If you are able to give now your gift will count double toward our goal.

  All gifts given through Adopt Together are tax deductible and all gifts go 100% toward adoption expenses.

  You may give on this site by clicking on the "Give Now" button.

  We are grateful for your prayers and support and for the financial support shown in helping us to bring home our daughter!

• Update 4

  Latest Update

  August 3, 2024

  Friends,

  We have an exciting update to share regarding our adoption process:

  We have been matched for adoption with a 2-year-old GIRL from Thailand!

  [Watch our Announcement Video Here]

  We are very excited to be at this stage of our adoption journey! For years we've spoken about growing our family, and multiple times have started the process, only to have it stalled or not work out, but now we know our family will be growing with a beautiful girl from Thailand who needs a mom, dad, and brother to love and care for her.

  Our daughter will come to us with some medical trauma from her birth and early life experience and we have been prepared for how to help her grow physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually healthy.

  We're writing this update to let you know how you can help us in this process.
  First, please be praying for us and our daughter! We believe God has a perfect plan to bring us together for his glory and our good and we will look back on this process with much joy, even as now we are walking through it by faith.

  Pray that the Lord would strengthen and encourage us in the process, as we likely still have 10 - 18 months to go before we are united as a family and that will at times feel like an incredibly difficult and long way to go.

  In 2015 we adopted our son from China and were amazed at the prayerful support and encouragement from family and friends that helped us bring him home. In many ways that effort has helped us remember the meaning of his name, Eben, which is short for Ebenezer and means "thus far the Lord has helped us".

  As you pray for us, consider if you may be able to help us with the financial cost of finishing this adoption.
  You have probably heard that adoption can be expensive… and it's true, but like all adoptive families, that must not stop us from pursuing our desire to love and care for a child who is waiting for us to become her forever family!

  Adoption-related costs can easily total up to $40,000 or more. A common question we hear when we share this is "Why does it cost so much"? The primary reason for all of these costs is to protect the child and ensure they find a stable and safe family to grow in. Here is a breakdown of typical costs for International Adoption, taken from Holt International, the Agency we are working with:

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  TYPICAL COSTS FOR INTERNATIONAL ADOPTION:
  Agency fees, which can range from $8,000–$10,000
  Foreign program fees, which can range from $5,000–$8,000
  Travel expenses, which can range from $5,000–$10,000
  Third party costs, which can range from $3,000–$7,000
  Post-Adoption Reports & Expenses, which can range from $ 2,000 - $3,000

  At this stage, we are matched, which means we have already covered Agency Fees and foreign program fees. To help us finalize this adoption and bring our daughter home we have started this TAX-DEDUCTIBLE fundraiser! (How is it Tax-Deductible? Read the FAQ's here: https://adopttogether.org/faq/)

  Our goal is to raise $25,000 to ensure we can cover the remainder of the expenses in the process.
  All funds will be strictly used for direct adoption-related expenses. AdoptTogether.org requires adoptive families to send in receipts to release donated funds.

  No gift is too small, and of course, no gift is too large either! You can give directly through this link to help us bring our daughter home!

  Thank you for reading this far and for your friendship, your prayer, and your support in this journey!

• Update 2

  

  Waiting for a Match

  March 15, 2023

  Friends, our Home Study process is now complete and we are waiting for a match!

  We had identified a sibling group, a girl and boy, 8 and 6 respectively, and today was the day of our hearing. Our social worker presented our case before a panel of adoption social workers.

  The good news is that these siblings are getting a family! The bad news, as far as we're concerned, is that it wont be with us. Two other families had applied and one of them won this case.

  We are disappointed that we didnt make this match, but we rejoice that two fewer children are going to be without a family. We know the Lord has a plan for us and we look forward to being matched.

  In your prayers:
  - praise God for matching this boy and girl with an adoptive family!
  - Pray that we will receive a match soon.
  - Pray for children living in orphanages, foster care, and on the streets, that they will find help and care they need in loving families.

  Thank you for reading, for praying, and for supporting us in this adoption journey!

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