Hello sweet friends and family!
We wanted to share that we are ADOPTING!!
Adoption has always been a part of our plan. We have personally seen the beauty brought to a family through adoption. In 2018 Vivienne Joy was adopted from China at 18months old by Amy & Ryan (Brittany’s sister & brother in law). Her life forever changed our entire extended family & further pushed us to pursue adoption one day. In 2023 Kayla (Brittany’s best friend for 20 years) & Tyler brought baby Beaux home through domestic infant adoption.
Our children have grown up knowing about adoption and know how beautiful it is. They ask us all the time “when will we adopt a brother or sister.” They love having each other and they want more siblings to love and grow up with! It’s never been a question of “if” we would adopt but “when.” After 3 pregnancies with major medical complications and 2 preemie deliveries we feel the Lord told us to stop trying for more biological children. Instead the desire for adoption became more intense.
As Christians we know we have been adopted into the family of God. Grafted into a family we could have never earned our way into. This beautiful picture of redemption and love is key to us stepping out in faith knowing God has a plan for us.
We know the Lord has called us down this path but we can’t do this alone. Domestic adoption is extremely expensive and we need your support!
We are adopting through Lifetree agency which is a Christian based agency in DFW. Our total cost at matching will be $47,000. You read that right. It’s crazy. But, we know God is good and He makes a way. We pray you will come along side us as we adopt a precious baby.
If you aren’t able to give financially we understand but we do desperately ask for your prayers as we step forward in faith! We ask for prayers for the birth mother that she will come to know Jesus as her Savior. For the baby to be healthy. For the process to go smoothly. And for our family in this transition. Most importantly we pray for God’s good will to be done and that we will trust Him in this journey. Thank you so much!
James 1:27
“Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.”
“But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship. Because you are his sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, “Abba, Father.” So you are no longer a slave, but God’s child; and since you are his child, God has made you also an heir.”
Galatians 4:4-7
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