Blog

31 Aug

Chosen

When we felt stirrings to adopt again last spring, we developed a kind-of mission statement.  We’d heard there was a need for families for African-American babies – particularly boys.  So our goal was this:  We don’t want to find a child for our family.  We want to be a family found for a child.

30 Aug

Tuesday Testimony

Tuesdays are dedicated to sharing stories from some of our grant recipients.  May you be blessed through their stories…. Life was good; we had great jobs, a beautiful home, financially stable and a baby on the way.  We were on top of the world and couldn’t wait to be parents.  On December 6, 2005 our daughter, Autumn was born and she was...

23 Aug

Tuesday Testimony

Tuesdays are dedicated to sharing stories from some of our grant recipients.  May you be blessed through their stories…. Jumping through all the hoops to complete an adoption has required more of us than we ever imagined, and the financial costs felt like an impossible mountain to climb.  Thanks to adoption grants like Katelyn’s Fund, that mountain isn’t so intimidating anymore.  Though we are still waiting to be matched for domestic adoption, knowing that Katelyn’s Fund has...

16 Aug

Tuesday Testimony

Tuesdays are dedicated to sharing stories from some of our grant recipients.  May you be blessed through their stories….   “We love because He first loved us.”  1 John 4:19  The word “adoption” came into our vocabulary before we were married almost twelve years ago.  We had no expectations or time frame linked to...

13 Aug

Fear

In 8 days I’m running a ½ marathon.  Let me preface this by saying that by nature, I am not a runner.  I was the last pick in school when dividing up for teams.  In Jr High and High School when we had to run a mile, I came in last, thinking that surely this was going to kill me.  But God has given me this dream to run a ½ marathon, and now it is...

10 Aug

A Touch From Jesus

  They came to Bethsaida, and some people brought a blind man and begged Jesus to touch him.  He took the blind man by the hand and led him outside the village.  Mark 8:22-23 The blind man trusted Jesus’ intimate touch of holding his hand and leading him outside the village. When he had spit on the man’s eyes and put his hands on him, Jesus asked, “Do you see anything?”  He looked up and said, “I see people; they look like...

09 Aug

Tuesday Testimony

Tuesdays are dedicated to sharing stories from some of our grant recipients.  May you be blessed through their stories…. We feel so honored that God has led us down the path of adoption!  We’ve known for years that we were to grow our family through adoption, and in the last few years,...

04 Aug

Connecting

Connecting…not a tough word to spell, but it can be a tough thing to do! Even with your family. There are nine members of our family.  Mom.  Dad. Four sisters.  Three brothers. Life can be a whirlwind, how can we connect? Connecting has been on my mind the past couple of weeks.  Last week, we spent a week on vacation, just the nine of us.  I watched as sisters and sisters and brothers and sisters connected on deeper levels.  I experienced connecting with my...

02 Aug

Tuesday Testimony

Tuesdays are dedicated to sharing testimonies from some of our grant recipients.  May you be blessed through their stories…   After spending a week volunteering with our church’s youth group at an orphanage in Jamaica in the summers of 2007and 2008, we felt convicted that we should explore international adoption.  After a series of twists and turns, we formally started the adoption process in the fall of 2009.  Now, here we are, eagerly waiting to make our second...

27 Jul

Remembering Jesus

I have started reading a remarkable book called Give Them Grace: Dazzling Your Kids with the Love of Jesus and in the forward was a chilling story that I thought I would share with you: “What would things look like if Satan really took control of a city?  Over half a century ago, Presbyterian ministry Donald Grey Barnhouse offered his own scenario in his weekly sermon that was also broadcast nationwide on CBS radio.  Barnhouse...