Loans & Funds
What a blessing it is to have you consider partnering with ABBA Fund as part of your adoption journey. ABBA Fund was founded by Christian adoptive families who were clearly responding to God’s call on their lives to care for orphans through adoption but needed help to get through the cash crunch that typically happens near the end of an adoption when a family brings their child home. These loans are typically no more than 1/3 of the overall cost of the adoption, and average in the $6,000-$8,000 range.
ABBA Fund has a two part online application to complete whether you are applying for an interest-free loan or our Family Adoption Fundraising Program. Part 1 is for our family adoption fundraising programs or if you are a member of one of our partner churches. The entire application (Part 1 and Part 2) will need to be completed for consideration for the interest-free loan.
As you complete the online application process, please keep these two foundational values in mind:
YOUR COVENANT IS WITH GOD
We use a “covenant” loan agreement purposefully – versus a more tradition legal agreement – because ABBA Fund is stewarding God’s resources, not ours. These loan resources were given for Kingdom purposes by other adoptive families and individuals with hearts for adoption. If you receive financial assistance from ABBA Fund, your agreement will be a covenant with God … and your loan repayments are in obedience to Him and His work and provision in your life. ABBA Fund is just the steward, the manager in the spirit of God’s Old Testament models of lending (Exodus 22:25; Leviticus 25:35-37; Deuteronomy 23:20). To that end, we do not recognize the bankruptcy and other legal avenues of debt avoidance and restructuring. If you sign your Covenant Loan Agreement as a brother and sister in Christ, you are committing to obediently honor your covenant with God. If you are uncomfortable with covenanting with God for this assistance, we respectfully ask you not to apply.
THE HEART OF ABBA FUND
Our heart is to help orphans be placed into loving, nurturing Christian family environments where the child will not only experience the love of Jesus Christ but be introduced to the person of Jesus Christ – and prayerfully one day trust in Jesus so that he or she will be adopted into ABBA Father’s family through salvation (Rom. 8:14-16; Gal. 4:4-6; Eph. 1:4-6). Thus, the name of our ministry – ABBA Fund. As we review your application, we are looking for evidence of that same heart. Please answer your questions in that spirit.
We will prayerfully consider all completed online applications. Application approval takes 6-8 weeks, and then you will be contacted via email by our team.
Please call us with questions at 888-775-3422 or email us – application@abbafund.org – Each application will be assessed prayerfully on:
- Heart for Adoption
- Spiritual wellness of family
- Educational and parenting values
- Financial stewardship
Family Adoption Fundraising Program
A growing initiative in our portfolio of programs is the Family Adoption Fundraising Program that allows families to set up a Family Adoption Fund with powerful crowdfunding tools.
ABBA Fund helps set up an online profile and donation form that can receive charitable contributions — including non-cash items like vehicles, electronics, jewelry, stocks and more.
Donations into these funds help reduce the financial burden of adoption by ABBA Fund utilizing grants to cover key adoption expenses. The benefits of participating in this grant fund include:
- Ability to fundraise from your social networks into a charitable adoption fund
- Your own adoption story, profile page and online contribution form on ABBA Fund’s website
- Opportunity to initiate grant fund participation to help with the cost of a home study
- Option to keep your family’s fund participation active for 12-24 months after your child is home for grants related to medical services necessary to care for your adopted child