Every love story is beautiful ~ but ours is my favorite <3 This sums up our adoption journey beautifully. 11 months ago we signed the papers to be LuLu Faith Madsen’s earthly parents. LuLu is a beautiful 9 year old […]
We are Derek and Molly Henrickson from Carlton, MN. We have been praying and working towards adoption from Sierra Leone and felt God was leading us to a sibling group. The agency we were working with got kicked out of […]
We’ve been on this journey for almost a year now. I remember when we first prayed about adopting. It was a scary time because it seemed like such an impossible undertaking. We don’t feel that way anymore. We know that […]
As most of you know, the Bells are in the process of adopting our daughter from South Korea! Matthew and I have felt the Lord’s calling to adopt “one day,” for as long as we can remember. In June 2016, […]
Life had never been easy for mama, my baby brother and I. Papa disappeared when I was just 4 years old. He simply walked out the door one Friday evening, never to return. Mama believed for the longest time he […]
We are the Shaeffer Family. We began thinking about adoption shortly after we were first married, 28 years ago. Our daughter was born and we thought we might adopt the next baby. God, however, had different plans. When we contacted […]
When we first started discussing our future children, we quickly decided that we wanted several, and that at least one of our children would be adopted. We both have adopted brothers, so it was […]
As some of you know, God has called us to grow our family through adoption. Through our long journey, God has directed us to adopt from Colombia. Through a special program, we are hosting two girls from Colombia at our […]
As some of you may know, we are expanding our family through adoption! For us, God planted the seeds of adopting children long before we were married. I (Lynn) remember talking about adoption as early as a middle […]
Adoption has been something we have prayed about pursuing for many years now. We have always known it would be something God would call us to. We were just not sure as to when or how. We have never been […]
Well…Here we go again! The Lord has laid it heavy on both of our hearts to adopt a baby girl from India. Crazy?! Maybe, but heeding to the Lord is our heart’s desire. Wilhite party of 6 we’re coming at […]
Before I traveled to China to adopt Lorelai, I couldn’t shake the nagging feeling that we had two daughters waiting for us. Due to our agency’s (very good) policies, we could not bring home two girls at the same time. Nevertheless, as […]