We have some BIG news — our family is growing through adoption! We are beyond excited and doing everything we can to prepare to welcome a beautiful new life into our home.
Adoption was something that we individually had on our hearts as early as our teen years, long before we began dating or married. Both of us had family friends that we admired and watched who adopted children. We heard personal stories, including Jacob’s grandfather, of where adoption can provide hope and love and hoped that one day this would be a way to grow our family. Now nearly 10 years into marriage, we are thrilled to pursue this dream of adoption together!
God has blessed us with two wonderful children and being their parents is the greatest joy of our lives. As we have felt the desire to grow our family again, we felt pulled towards adoption and began researching options. Due to our military status, we learned that domestic infant adoption is the best fit for our family situation right now with two kids under age 6. Domestic infant adoption means that a birth mother has determined she cannot provide the life she would want for the child she is carrying and will choose the home and family for the newborn.
After months of prayer, encouragement and support from friends and family, and God’s spirit at work within us, we began to actively pursue domestic infant adoption at the beginning of 2021. This journey has been many steps of faith over many months and we’ve come to realize it is quite a process. Each phase has been tedious, yet God has faithfully provided.
We have chosen to work with a national adoption agency that opens the door to an adoption possibility from any state. Currently we are nearing the end of the months-long application process, have our home-study complete, and are working to gather the necessary funds to cover the costs of adoption. When our fundraising is nearly complete, we will be cleared as a waiting family with our agency and placed on the national list of available families waiting to be matched with a birth mother who selects us. This fundraising step can seem overwhelming, but we are confident in the Lord’s ability to provide as we move forward in faith.
It may surprise you to hear that domestic adoptions costs can total up to $60,000 or more. This covers administrative and agency fees, travel costs, and helps with the birth mother’s medical costs. Our funds will come from a combination of our savings, grants we are actively applying for, and some fundraising projects on the side. We have started this crowdfunding campaign as the largest way to cover costs.
We ask that you please prayerfully consider partnering with us in prayer & encouragement and by making a generous contribution. We hope that by inviting you into this process, you will see yourself as part of the story of our child coming home.
To DONATE BY MAIL, please make out the check to ABBA Fund (do not write the family name on the physical check, which will invalidate the charitable aspect of your gift ... instead either print out this page to send with it or include a separate note to request that we preference your gift toward the family profiled on this page) -- then mail your check and preference request to:
ABBA Fund, PO BOX 868049, Plano, TX 75086-8049
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**AN IMPORTANT CLARIFICATION FROM ABBA FUND ABOUT YOUR DONATION**
Using the online form on this page automatically submits a request to preference your gift to the family profiled on this page as part of ABBA Fund’s Christian Family Adoption Grant Fund. ABBA Fund administers this fund and maintains full control and administration of all donated funds. We also strive to honor our donor’s preference requests in accordance with IRS and Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA) guidelines.
The IRS allows donors to state a preference of how their contribution is used and request that the gift support a particular family — and it allows the charitable organization (ABBA Fund) to fully consider that request as long as the donor understands and acknowledges for charitably given tax-deductible gifts that the ultimate authority regarding the disposition of your gift is at the discretion of the charitable organization. By using this online form, or other method described above, you are acknowledging an understanding of those IRS guidelines.