Friends, we are adopting again! And, from South Korea (wow, God!!).
We adopted our son, Rowen, from South Korea in 2021. In 2022, we were pregnant with our biological daughter. During that time, I felt the Lord tell us that she was our last biological child, but we would adopt again.
We welcomed our biological daughter in 2023, and we knew that we were being called to adopt again recently. But, South Korea has been essentially closed for international adoptions due to a change in adoption structure within Korea that will occur in 2025. Because there were no open doors to South Korea with any agency, we had a phone call scheduled with a local adoption attorney in Chattanooga, TN to start the domestic adoption process.
The day before that phone call was scheduled, an adoption agency contacted us seeking only 2-3 families who had previously adopted from South Korea and would be open to considering a child with special needs. (Wow, God!)
We went through the pre-approval process and were accepted! Our home study was expedited and completed in 5 weeks, and it was finalized and sent to South Korea this week!
At a high level, South Korea is moving all adoptions from private agencies to government run adoptions beginning in July 2025. The agency we are working with has a handful of children remaining in their care that they would like to have placed before this transition and hand off to the government occurs. Once this change to government run adoptions happens, there is great uncertainty about what will happen with international adoptions from South Korea.
Only God could open this door, but He has more mountains to move for us.
FINANCIAL NEED
The catch? We could be matched with a child any day now due to the expedited need to have these children placed by the end of June 2025 (6 months away!) When this occurs, we are not sitting on the cash to pay our next large adoption fee or the fees after that. God has already moved mountains to allow our family the opportunity to adopt from South Korea this time around. We are praying that He continues moving the remaining mountains and does BIG things to fund this adoption.
We have received $8000 in matching grants from JFRH Adoption Fund & Lifesong for Orphans!
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