Good News Everyone!

We are adopting!

We are very excited that a new little person will someday join our happy little family and are greatly anticipating the joys of parenthood.

We will be adopting a special-needs child from Bulgaria.

Why Adopting?
While we envision our family to grow by both biological and adopted children, we feel like now is the time for adoption. Our adopted child will be our true offspring - legally, emotionally, spiritually - 100% our child. We can't wait to love, hold, and raise our little bundle of joy to be just like us - to be an individual that values love, justice, and truth.

We also hope to convey justice, truth, and love with our adoption story. God himself has an adoption story. He has adopted us into His family. God loves us, and has reached into our situations of abandonment, injustice, and suffering to make us a fully fledged member of His family. We are being raised to be just like Him, loved and cherished, placed in a family - no longer alone.

Why Special Needs?
We feel like we have a spot in our heart for precious people who have physical limitations and believe that our life experiences have equipped us to be able to raise a child to be an overcomer, to be more than the sum of its parts.

The need is great for parents willing to adopt special-needs children. So many children just need a loving family and a little or a lot of medical care to make it possible for them to live happy, fulfilling lives.

Practically, the wait is less for a special-needs child. And there are more grants available for special-needs adoptions. So it all works out.

Spiritually, we are all special-needs children in God's eyes... we all have injuries, wounds, and circumstances that hold us back. He gives us the love, healing, and courage to grow beyond these.

Why Bulgaria?
International vs. Domestic: We wanted to adopt a little kid who had been orphaned... either through death or abandonment. Most orphans in the US are older children - and at the present, we did not feel that an older child was for us. So we turned our eyes and our hearts to the world.

God made it really simple to choose a country... when we asked adoption agencies which countries we were eligible to adopt a child with special needs from, the answer was Bulgaria.

Who will it be? 
We don't know yet! We are asking for a little boy or girl under four years old with mild to moderate special needs. Once we have completed our home study, our paperwork will be sent to Bulgaria and then we will be matched with a child. Hee, hee - so exciting.

How long?
It will be a long process... about two years.

How much?
Yes, international adoption is expensive - $30,000 expensive! But we believe our child will be worth every penny! We will be fundraising, applying for grants, etc. but know that God has the purse for this adoption. We trust that He will provide for all our needs!