“Father is the Christian name for God. Our understanding of Christianity cannot be better than our grasp of adoption” – J.I Packer
Early in our marriage, we began talking about adoption as it was something Brad had always felt called to do. We began praying about it before even having our biological children, and as we did, God began pressing it on our hearts that we would one day grow our family through adoption. Even though our family has already started, we are just as excited to grow our family through adoption as we were to grow our family biologically. We feel called to adopt for many reasons, but the greatest is driven by our faith and understanding of God’s love. We are choosing adoption as away to love a child, an expectant mother, our family, and to reflect God’s love that He has for us. As we have pursued this path for our family, we have learned more about who God is and how adoption has been at the center of the Gospel story.
“For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry “Abba Father”. The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs – heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.” Romans 8:14-17
We are eager to welcome a new baby into our family forever, that he/she will cry out to us as mommy and daddy, and that he/she will be given our name. We ask that you pray even now for our child’s first mommy and family – though they are unknown to us at this point in our journey, they are known to God.
We also humbly ask that you consider supporting our adoption through prayer, donations, or in whatever way you feel called. We thank you for walking this journey with us in whatever way you choose!
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.