National Adoption Month

I have trouble putting into words the blessing adoption has been to our family and to myself. The moment Mady was placed in my arms was one of the most intense God moments of my life. God was more real to me in that moment than any other in my life. Even in the births of my biological children. There wasn't more love involved. Just more peace and awe of who God is and His love for ALL His children. I knew more through our adoption that I was in His will than in any other time in my life. Throughout the entire journey He was faithful and provided everything we needed. Materially and Emotionally. Every time a bill came the money was there. It was Amazing. He asked us to serve him and He did all the work. We were just the lucky ones He chose to be Mady's family. We stepped out in faith and have never regretted it. If He should ask again I would jump at the opportunity. If God is tugging at your heart I encourage you to jump off that cliff into the unknown, trust God and watch Him unfold His plan for your life. There is nowhere else I would rather be. And if you need some support, call Me!! I would love to walk this journey with you :)




Learn Why This Matters To God

The World's Waiting Children Matter

The numbers are staggering...More than 130 million orphans worldwide…15 million children orphaned due to AIDS…500,000 children in America’s foster care system…127,000 children in the US waiting for adoptive homes.

The numbers make the problem seem insurmountable, and for any one of us, they are. Yet, there is One who cares deeply — our Father in heaven. And His reach extends even to the fatherless.

Throughout the Bible, God shares His compassion, His love, and His special concern for the most vulnerable among us — the orphan. The world’s waiting children. Children with no father or mother to protect them, waiting for someone to care for them, someone to love them.

“Dispense true justice and practice kindness and compassion each to his brother; and do not oppress the widow or the orphan…”

— Zechariah 7:9-12

The Scriptures are clear that the Lord gives the family of God the responsibility to care for the orphan's needs — to love and protect them. In fact, God's concern for orphans is so central to his plan for us here on earth that he inspired James to write: "Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world" (James 1:27).

Why would God tell us that caring for orphans is "pure and undefiled religion?"

Maybe it’s because the world sees God’s heart when He works through his people to help the helpless. And maybe it’s because caring for orphans is such a perfect picture of our relationship with God. In our inability to please God with our own efforts, in our utter helplessness to initiate a relationship with him, we are more like orphans and strangers than we like to admit.

It’s time for the body of Christ to step up. The urgent needs of orphans around the world are calling the Christian community today to a radical faith. One church, one family, one person can make a difference.

Today, God is stirring the hearts of his people to this incredible need and opportunity. There is a movement of an increasing number of churches and evangelical organizations worldwide who are coming together as one voice to not only raise awareness but more importantly to mobilize the body of Christ to take action on behalf of the orphan.

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“Vindicate the weak and fatherless; do justice to the afflicted and destitute. Rescue the weak and needy; deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.”
— Psalm 82:3-4

“Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your deeds from My sight. Cease to do evil, learn to do good; seek justice, reprove the ruthless, defend the orphan, plead for the widow.”
— Isaiah 1:16-17