That’s right - we’re adopting!! The Lord began writing this story long ago, and we feel so incredibly thankful to finally be at this step of wholeheartedly pursuing adoption. Before we even got married, we had conversations about each of us individually feeling a strong pull toward adoption. As we got married, we weren’t sure exactly how this would unfold - but here we are!
We have always wanted a big family. Thankfully we encountered no issues getting pregnant and carrying our first two children, Lucy and Benji. Unfortunately we struggled greatly to get pregnant after that - experiencing several early miscarriages and receiving little in the way of clarity from our care team. After our first miscarriage and the grief + confusion that followed, Martha felt the Lord reminding her: there is a baby coming to your family not through your womb. That was last spring and since then, the Lord has graciously continued to bring peace and clarity that now is the time for us to adopt. We ghosted our fertility clinic entirely without ever pursuing IVF or other more ‘promising’ treatments. As we prayed over and processed this decision, we felt such an overwhelming sense of peace and clarity. We felt God calling us toward adoption in this season. You see, adoption has never been a sort of ‘last resort’ for us. This has been the hope and call since before there even was our little Robinson family.
We are working with Christian Adoption Consultants to guide us through this process and ensure each step is done with integrity and prayer. They help vet agencies, design our profile book, and really speak wisdom to us through it all. We have completed our home study, put the finishing touches on our profile book for birth families to review, and are hoping to be matched with an expectant family any day now. The average wait time is between 7-12 months, and we hope to wait well during that time. Lucy and Benji are ecstatic. Lucy asks multiple times a week, “is our baby coming today?”
It has been an eye opening experience to educate ourselves on the great cost involved in adoption. The entire journey is complex - a marriage of both brokenness and redemption. These costs help ensure every piece of the puzzle is handled ethically and with care. The money we raise will cover everything from legal fees and agency fees to the delivery of the baby and counseling for the birth mom. It helps ensure all parties involved are well-supported.
Years ago the idea of ‘fundraising’ would have stirred in us anxiety and maybe even a tendency towards self-reliance. But in walking through this process, we have felt such a humble gratitude for where the Lord is calling our family, and the opportunity to bring others alongside us in this. We are inviting you - our people - walk with us in faithfulness, as we seek to live out James 1:27. What a delight and sacred privilege this is! We hope you would consider supporting us in prayer and/or monetary donations.
We really look forward to seeing more of this story unfold in the days and weeks ahead. We have complete confidence this baby will be SO loved by our family and our incredibly special community.
