***We are so excited and thankful that Lifesong has given our project a $100,000 matching grant! This means that every dollar given up to $100,000 will be matched/doubled!*** Here in Odessa, Ukraine, the goal of our Lifesong team is to […]
Hello, We are Melissa and Nathan Lentfer. We live in Brooklyn Park, MN, a northern suburb of Minneapolis. We had always expected to have biological children, but that wasn’t God’s plan for our family. After 12 years of marriage, we […]
Listening to Adventures in Odyssey is one of our favorite past times on long road trips. We chuckle over Eugene’s mishaps and Mr. Whitaker’s life-lessons never get old! Our current trek through adoption is one of the greatest adventures in […]
Our Story We are so excited to have you join us in this adventure to grow our family. Adoption has always been something that we have thought about and feel that God is calling us to it now. When we […]
Join us on our adoption journey as we raise the funds needed for this incredible process! We have graciously been awarded a matching grant of $7,000 from We Care for Orphans + Lifesong for Orphans Adoption Fund! This means any […]
First of all, thanks for taking the time to visit this MyStory site. Jessie and I are very blessed to have such a supportive community. Truly, thank you. As you may know, Jessie and I are adopting from India. Why […]
As many of you now know, our mighty, precious little boy became emergently ill on Monday morning (Jan 31). He was 100% the previous night, and then Monday morning, we found him in his bed covered in brown vomit, distended […]
“We love because he first loved us.” 1 John 4:19 This verse is our motivation for everything we do, including our adoption journey. God has poured out his love into our lives, and we now seek to pour out […]
From the time we were married we had discussed the idea of adoption, but we were never sure it was something God was calling us to until later on in our marriage. In 2011, after being a part of and […]
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 […]
The cliff notes version of our family began with Jeremiah and I desiring to adopt separately as teenagers. Then it grew as we talked about it as a young dating couple in college. After getting married, our “plan” was […]
Since the time we got married and began discussing children, adoption has always been on the table. As we felt the desire to grow our family, we prayed and asked if the time was right. After having 2 biological children, […]