How it all began...

     Adoption has been on my heart since I was in high school. I'm not sure when I began to think about it or why, but I did. After Eric and I were married we knew we wanted children, it was just a matter of when. I talked to him about how I felt about adoption and we agreed that if we were unable to have children of our own we would adopt.

     Three years after our initial conversation about adoption we had a guest speaker from a local foster care and adoption agency speak to our congregation about the need for more foster and adoptive parents. After church I brought it up to Eric again, and again we agreed that we would definitely adopt if we had to. We talked about it off and on and I would occasionally look at websites to see what we would have to do if we ever wanted to pursue this. After some research I would always end up talking myself out of it.

     As time went on I felt more and more convicted to do something about these babies that needed homes. I prayed about it often but I did not let Eric know how strong my feelings were.  In October of 2010 after months of discussion we decided to try a new church. We had been very happy at our previous church over the past five years but we just felt that we wanted and needed more. We found a new church home and it has been truly amazing to see all of the pieces come perfectly together. Our new church has an amazing love for the orphan and after only two Sundays, God was putting adoption on my heart more than ever. I decided to bring it up to Eric again, I said, "I know we agreed that we would pursue this if we could not have biological children BUT what if we just do it anyway." I was expecting him to say that we should talk about it more, or give it some more thought, but much to my surprise he said, "okay, what do we need to do?" Right then and there I said, "Okay God, I'm listening." I realized that all this time I had been telling Him no. Well, He wasn't taking no for an answer! Once I finally said yes, we will answer your call, He confirmed to us over and over again that this is what He wanted us to do.


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.   James 1:27