Hello! We are Chris and Julie Manthey and our sons, Isaiah, Caleb, and Levi. We met and fell in love in 2006 and got married in 2007. We spent the first 5 years of our marriage in ministry together and […]
Home! We are so happy to be home with all of our kids in one spot. It’s unbelievable that only four days after submitting our names, we got a phone call that a precious family chose us to raise their […]
Our adoption story begins with the gospel. In Galatians 4:3-7, Scripture says, “In the same way we also, when we were children, were enslaved to the elementary principles of the world. But when the fullness of time had come, God […]
We are so thankful and blessed to have been awarded a $3000 matching grant from Lifesong for Orphans Adoption Fund! I thought I would share a little bit of our testimony and how God has brought us to this point. […]
Becca, here! It’s amazing to see how prominent adoption has been in both our lives even from a very early age. As kids, we were directly impacted by adoptees: Nate was raised with one and I was raised by one! Adoption […]
In April of 2020 I began to feel we were to begin the process of adopting our next little one(s) while listening to Ted Youman’s (our adoption attorney) share his heart about adoption. It was in that moment that my […]
There are certain moments in life when God completely wrecks us in the best way possible and we feel like for a second we’re able to see a glimpse of what heaven may feel like – complete surrender, total peace. […]
Aaron and I talked about adopting one day since before we were married. This desire was prompted in us by a combination of our understanding and gratitude for how God has adopted us as his children, an understanding of God’s […]
We are the Watsons–Justin, Jennifer, Zoe (11) and Xander (8) and we are doubling our family through adoption. We are matched with four siblings in the country of Moldova who have been waiting for years for a family to keep […]
We are Darryl and Callie Orso. When we met, and we knew that God had something big in store for us. We had the same goals in life, and the best part is, we both loved Jesus with […]
Hello from TN! We are excited to share our adoption story and let all of you know what we have been up to during this pandemic! In early 2019 we had to make a tough choice and moved to Knoxville, […]
We’re adopting siblings from Inida! We’ve been married for a little over 10 years. For the majority of our marriage we’ve resided in northeast Pennsylvania, although we also lived in Germany for a year! Aaron works as a radio announcer […]