As youth pastors, we felt his calling in our lives to be a mother and father to the orphaned. In our early years of marriage, we had little resources and knew few people who were pursuing adoption or who had adopted. It was in the 2nd year of marriage, after multiple failures to conceive, we were swept up into the complex world and emotional loss of infertility as young newlyweds. We silently grieved and struggled through this experience as family...
Over our last 11 years of marriage, we have had a call to adopt but felt the Lord telling us to wait. About 3 years ago, we felt Him lifting the “wait.” However, we were living in a 2-bedroom, 720-square-foot rental home. “When we have more space, we will be ready,” we decided. In 2022, Hurricane Ian destroyed our rental home. God was faithful, as He always is. Our financial needs were met through the generous giving of friends, family,...
We were a few months away from completing our second adoption when we received a call from the agency of our oldest daughter’s adoption that her birth mama was pregnant and wanted to entrust her sweet baby with us. We had been praying for over a year for the Lord to open doors for communication with her to open back up and to continue growing our family. We were overjoyed to say yes, but then immediately began praying for finances....
Our adoption story starts with the birth of our first child, Maggie. She was born with a rare condition called Rhombencephalosynapsis with severe hydrocephalus. Doctors said we may only have minutes or hours with her. We prayed and prayed, and the Lord gave us 3 amazing years with her. Since then, we have had adoption in our hearts. We have had 2 more children. Our son Noah and our daughter Isabella. Last fall, God started sending us signs that the time...
Early into our marriage, Makayla began experiencing health issues, and we discovered that having a baby biologically would be very difficult for us. Shortly after that we experienced a miracle with the birth of our daughter in 2016. The years following, we desired to continue to grow our family but went through many years of infertility and loss. At the young age of two, our daughter began asking and praying for a baby brother or sister as well and was...
We are currently in the process of our third adoption. With three biological children and two adopted children already in our home, the Lord spoke to us again, asking us to step forward with an obedient yes to another adoption. We knew this was His calling, and as we listened, He made it clear that this time, we were to keep siblings together. He later revealed that it would be a sibling set of four children. At first, the reality of...
In 2020, we felt led to adoption, so we began the process right away! We brought our son home in July of 2022 and it was the greatest season of our lives. Now that our son is 2 years old, we would love to provide a sibling for him! When we sat down and looked at the cost of adoption and our finances, we realized that we would need to depend on the Lord to provide. We began looking for...
Testimonial: How Katelyn’s Fund Helped Us Bring Home Our Son Kara and I (Jeremiah) have known since we were 18 years old that we were called to adopt. You could say it was our “teenage rebellion” against normalcy. We believe there are countless beautiful reasons to adopt, but for us, after having three biological children, the main reason was this crazy idea that we could make a difference in a child’s life—and maybe even in the life of a brave birth...
Thank you so much for partnering with us financially to bring our daughters home a little over a year ago. After, 3 years in the adoption process 23 months matched with our daughters 20% of our year spent in Liberia And them officially adopted for 5 months… On December 4, 2023, we landed back in the US with our two youngest daughters. It has been a little over one year since the girls have been home and we’ve been a family of 10. This past year has...
Grant Recipient Story: Jonathan and Erin Adoption has been in both our hearts for years. We were both raised with close friends and family members who were adopted. We knew it would be a part of our story, but only God knew how the story would unfold. We struggled with infertility for years and lost two children. Those were the worst years of our lives. However, the Lord proved faithful. He sustained us and provided for us through the grieving process....
