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25 Jan

He is Able…

He is Able… I know of so many mama's whose hearts cry out to begin the journey once again to find their precious child who waits for them somewhere in the world…  Others are waiting to begin the adoption journey for the first time.  Often times it is the husband, the daddy who is not yet ready to proceed, or who is  adamantly saying no.  I was once that mama whose arms ached to hold her daughter so far away… I...

24 Jan

Testimony Tuesdays

On Tuesdays, we take time to focus on some of our families that have received grants from Katelyn's Fund.  May you be blessed by their stories…..   We have four biological children, Grace, Lainey, Joah, and Asher, and we are eagerly waiting to travel to Taiwan to meet and bring home our son Zachary who will be two in October!  We are so passionate about adoption and are so blessed to be on this journey!   We have...

19 Jan

The Plane Ride Home

  During our trip to pick up our son from Ethiopia, one area of concern that we had was the flight home—the straight 16 hour flight over the ocean home. The flight that we would be parenting a 3 year old boy who did not know us, had hardly ever been in a vehicle (let alone an airplane), and further more didn't know a word of English flight home.  Do you see why it was a point of concern? Our trip home went quite well really, save for a few bumpy...

17 Jan

Testimony Tuesdays

On Tuesdays, we take time to focus on some of our families that have received grants from Katelyn's Fund.  May you be blessed by their stories…..   We had talked about adoption for years, but it seemed sudden that God brought us to a decision (through His Word, specific prayers, books, and other circumstances) to adopt.  We told a few close friends about our plan and asked them to pray for us.  Two weeks later, we got...

11 Jan

Ransom

  Blogging on the fly is something I do a lot because…well, because that's life for me right now. On the other hand, I hope to be responsible and take seriously the things I write. I don't want to mislead anyone. As a youth leader, Sunday school teacher, wife, parent and believer, I will be held accountable for the things I say and do (and don't do).   All that to say, I was asked a question today that is worthy of addressing...

10 Jan

Testimony Tuesdays

On Tuesdays, we take time to focus on some of our families that have received grants from Katelyn's Fund.  May you be blessed by their stories…..   Being itinerant workers with a linguistic organization in Africa working on Bible translation, living by the financial and prayer support of dear friends and churches mostly in the USA, and knowing that our organization has a 'no debt policy', we knew that the financial end of our international adoption would require...

05 Jan

I’m Not a Perfect Mom

I forgot to take my son to dance today.  He’s five.  He loves it.  Our conversation went like this. Mom, “Jaden, I’m sorry, I forgot to take you to dance today.  I’m sorry, bud.” Jaden, “That's okay, we can go tomorrow.” “No, they don’t have it tomorrow; we have to wait till next week.” Jaden, "Why I have to skip dance?" “Cuz your mom forgot.” Jaden, "I should said, 'Mom! Dance!"

03 Jan

Testimony Tuesdays

On Tuesdays, we take time to focus on some of our families that have received grants from Katelyn's Fund.  May you be blessed by their stories…..   Adopting our son has been an amazing journey of faith for our family. It has been incredible to see God work over this past year culminating in bringing our son home on July 2nd of this year.  Katelyn's Fund had a huge hand of encouragement and support in our journey. My husband...

27 Dec

Testimony Tuesdays

On Tuesdays, we take time to focus on some of our families that have received grants from Katelyn's Fund.  May you be blessed by their stories…..   We have been married for 10 years and have been blessed with 3 beautiful biological children.  We have always talked about adopting, but somehow we were still caught off guard when we felt that God was moving us toward starting the adoption process last November.  We attended an adoption and...