Jeremy and Rachel Smith

are adopting 3 children from Liberia

Here is our Adoption Journey so far…

We started this process of adopting 2 little girls from Liberia in April of 2022.

After visiting Liberia for 5 months in 2024, we decided to additionally adopt a little boy. This little guy, already bonded to our Liberian daughters, also became very close to our entire family during our time in Liberia, and now, life without him with us is unimaginable.

We chose Liberia because we are impressed by Liberia’s resilience and progress as a war torn country that is healing from so much. Liberia works hard to allow adoptions when necessary and to reunite families whenever possible. We are grateful Liberia is allowing us to adopt our daughters, and hopeful as we watch Liberia grow as a country.

We started this journey in April of 2022.

In May of 2023, with the help of our friends and family, church, community, and organizations like Noonday Collection, Phill the Box, Funds2Orgs, and Adopt Together, we reached our fundraising goals to make our adoption possible. At that time, we anticipated our Liberian daughters would be joining our family in 3-6 months time.

We did not get any solid updates for months, until November of 2023, when adoptions for multiple agencies, including our agency, were suspended in Liberia, which prompted our visit to bond with our kids and explore all avenues in person in February of 2024. We returned home in July of 2024 after exhausting all resources to unite our family permanently.

There are multiple political conflicts that brought adoptions to a halt in November of 2023. Although these political conflicts put Liberian children at risk, the layers of the conflicts are multifaceted and complicated beyond the adoption process itself.

As we continue to wait, we are committed to intentional international parenting. We will continue to visit as much as we can and continue to pursue every avenue to unite our family on one continent. We appreciate any encouragement as we continue to walk this road.

Adoption Status

Matched

Adoption Agency

Small World Adoption Agency


Updates

  • Update 47

    Day 422. Adopt from Liberia. Load #10

    May 25, 2023

    https://youtu.be/prPwYPXQ0Iw

  • Update 46

    Day 421. Adopt from Liberia. The Nesting Phase.

    May 24, 2023

    Update video! https://youtu.be/xtYclvrC0Rc

  • Update 45

    Day 417 of Adopt from Liberia. Why all adoptive families need AdoptTogether.

    May 21, 2023
    I have learned this week that many people who have given to our site here, do not know what “Adopttogether” actually is. Here it goes! This week, we got great news! AdoptTogether is our crowdfunding site, and they hosted a golf tournament on April 28th. They spotlighted 4 families and asked their participants at the gold tournament to try to finish out the fundraising needs for all 4 families. They did it. The $15,024.10 we still needed to finish out this adoption fundraising is being paid by AdoptTogether, in the form of a grant, to complete our adoption funds. We are fully funded. As of... Read more
  • Update 44

    Day 414. Adopt from Liberia. Mallory’s Kids.

    May 17, 2023
    Just want to take a minute and tell you about Mallory’s kids. They are on my pending list. My bucket list of helping 100 kids home. Sometimes I think about the day I will be dead, and someone will be talking about “my list”. How I played this game in my 4th and 5th (yikes) decade of life and took big things and turned them into a daily check list and turned that into a path for kids… kids I can see…kids you will see…kids that are just kids, today. I coached myself to get up. I will think back on today. How I... Read more
  • Update 43

    Adopt from Liberia. Day 411. Mother’s Day and Rocky.

    May 14, 2023
    This past week has been hard. Mother’s Day is so weird for me. There is a quote by Jody Landers that resonates with me on a daily basis. The privilege of parenting is not lost on me. Not even one day. “Children born to another mother call me “mommy”. The magnitude of that tragedy and the depth of that privilege are not lost on me.” Jody Landers I was a “dog mom” before God or anyone else would let me parent a child. We said goodbye to Rocky this week, on my terms and his. This old blog post about Rocky... Read more
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