We met in 2017 on a blind date. Our friends set us up because we were both looking for “someone in their 30s who loves God”. We were married in 2018. Things worked out well from that first date! Brandon […]
Our adoption journey started 13.5 years, on our second date. Adoption has been a dream of ours since before we were even a family. God calls us to care for the orphans and widows, and that is exactly what […]
Jon Jon and I both have always individually felt a strong draw towards adopting a child into our family. We began taking steps towards making that a reality one year ago. We began having practical discussions and devoting ourselves to […]
Ryan and my journey toward adoption dates back to October 26, 2013–the day Ryan and I first met in Charlottesville, Virginia. Ryan and I met in college in Virginia during our junior year of school. A dear, mutual friend of […]
Thank you for visiting our adoption page! Check out a Digital version of our support letter here: https://simplebooklet.com/jeffandhannahadopt Update – December 2022 Thanks to your generous donations, we have raised almost $29,000 toward our adoption! Unbelievable to see how […]
Throughout our 10+ years of marriage, whenever the topic of growing our family came up, our conversation always led to adoption. We never felt particularly called to have biological kids, but the thought of adoption has always pulled at our […]
August was full of highs and lows for our family. From being matched with a baby, to traveling to Florida just to have the birth mom not show up, to finding out that the baby boy was placed for adoption […]
Introducing Elouise Ciela Thomas! She was born October 28th, at 35 weeks weighing 5.3 lbs to her first mom, Celest, whom we are forever indebted to for choosing us to love her baby girl forever. Celest’s name means […]
Morgan & Bobby have been married for 12 years and have two biological children: Ellis (3) and Hayden (5). God laid it on their hearts that their family was not complete and felt confident God was calling them to adoption […]
Wade and I felt God bending our hearts toward adoption as we grew in our own understanding of adoption into the family of God. We began to see a thread of adoption woven throughout the entire Bible. Through prayer and learning […]
Robert “Bob” Leroy Rush, Jr., age 67, of Gardner, Kansas, passed away on April 29th at home surrounded by loved ones after a long battle with cancer. Bob was born August 31, 1954 in Boonville, Missouri to Robert (Bob) and […]
We are thrilled to be able to share with our family and friends that we are adopting from Haiti! We have long known that adoption would be part of our family journey; it was never if, but when. In an […]