After getting married and a few years of prayer, we were excitedly feeling the Lord giving us the “green light” with growing our family through adoption. We applied to an adoption agency, and God’s hands were all over it. Clearances that normally took weeks were arriving in our mailbox in days. Less than a month after our approved home study, we received a phone call saying a young girl had chosen us to be the family for her baby. She...
God called us so directly to adopt. He has been so faithful and led us to Colombia and to our son. He has guided us and walked with us in every step of the way. During our trials and tribulations, fears, wins, successes, and everything in between. Katelyn’s Fund has made the most incredible impact in our process. Financial strains have been overwhelmingly stressful for our family and Katelyn’s Fund has provided us the ability to secure plane tickets to...
Our adoption journey actually began with discussions prior to being married. During the course of our time getting to know each other and in dating, the discussion of future family dreams and hopes was one of our points for discussion. Both of us spoke about a desire to adopt at some point if the Lord would open the door. After our marriage, we learned that Michelle’s autoimmune kidney disease was not reacting to the medication as positively as we had hoped....
One of our daily prayers – some days it’s more of a desperate pleading – is that God equips us to love as he loves. We discussed our desire to adopt prior to marriage. We stepped into adoption with a shallow understanding of the depth of loss, devastation, and trauma that accompanies it. We bear witness to the impacts of the tragedy that is adoption daily as we walk alongside our children who have come from hard places. Our life...
Adoption has always been on our hearts as a couple ever since we first started dating. Ashley is adopted from foster care and she knows just how much adoption has changed her life. Together, we have always seen the beautiful picture of the Gospel that is found in adoption. God has graciously adopted us into his family! What a gift of life! When we got married, we desired to start a family, but we struggled to get pregnant. So, we turned...
Adoption had been on our hearts for years, but it always felt like a “one day, maybe” conversation. The only thing holding us back was the financial burden—it seemed overwhelming. After getting married, we spent nearly four years living with our parents, saving every penny to buy a house. The idea of coming up with the money needed for an adoption felt impossible. After being told by doctors that it would be unlikely we could have biological children, rather than pursuing...
We love children and our desire has always been to build a loving and supportive family for as many children as the Lord would bless us with. When we started to try for a family in 2010, we faced three years of unexpected infertility issues before we became pregnant with identical twins! We were very blessed to start our family with the birth of Madilyn and Mikaela in 2014 but during our struggle with infertility, our hearts were opened to...
Adoption has always been on our hearts. Even before we were married, we talked about it and knew it would be part of our story one day. We thought we would have biological children first and then adopt later. But after experiencing multiple heartbreaking losses, we prayed and asked God what He wanted for our family. He gave us a very clear answer, and adoption wasn’t just part of the plan; it was the plan for us to start our...
We truly feel like God is doing some serious work with our family and with our hearts, specifically. Like many couples, we grew up with a strong desire to be parents. We never in a million years would know that we would still be trying to conceive 95 months later (yes, we still track). While infertility has taken away our ability to have biological children, we know that no one is “owed” children. We also know that the deep desire...
We welcomed our biological daughter in 2023, and we knew shortly after she arrived that we were being called to adopt again. Our first adoption from South Korea was finalized in 2021. But, South Korea has been essentially closed for international adoptions due to a change in adoption structure within Korea that will occur in 2025. Because there were no open doors to South Korea with any agency, we had a phone call scheduled with a local adoption attorney in...
