Our Story: Hello! We are Jared and Jane Martin and our family has been deeply blessed by adoption. After welcoming our first child through adoption, we feel God calling us to expand our family once again by adopting a second […]
Adoption has been on our hearts for as long as we can remember. For Casey, she grew up with adoption as a part of her story because her mother was adopted as an infant. Casey knew from a very young age […]
Thank you for taking the time to read our story and considering dontation!!! We have been awarded $7500 in matching grants from The Agape Family Legacy Fund + Lifesong for Orphans and are so grateful for that wonderful start to […]
We are Michael and Nicolette Shipley. We’ve been married for nearly a decade and have one daughter. Michael is a Captain in the US Army so we’ve had the opportunity to live all around the world. Adoption has been something […]
Early on, Mike and I (Steph) talked about the idea of adoption in the future. Over the next few years, we worked with a nonprofit to serve international college students in Clemson and Greenville. We met so many students from […]
Hello friends! We have kept this story kind of on the down low and given very little details, but we are in dire need of support and have made the decision that keeping quiet is not benefiting our girl at […]
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It feels surreal and vulnerable to be announcing this…almost like when you start telling people you are pregnant again, right when you find out, instead of waiting until after the first trimester. So much is unknown. So much could happen. […]
We met in May of 2008 in a small fishing village in the country of Benin, where Aaron worked as a Peace Corps Educator at an orphanage and Nadege lived with her family in her hometown. A year after our […]
Dear Family and many Friends-Like-Family, September 1 marked the one-year anniversary of enrolling Jasmin at YOVA. While it is hard to believe that a year has gone by, the progress that Jasmin has made over that time can only be […]
God has called our family to the ministry of foster care and adoption. We currently have 10 kids (3 bio, 5 adopted, 2 foster to adopt). The journey has been both rewarding and also extremely challenging. We have […]
In 2010, we knew we wanted to grow our family. We knew we couldn’t afford to adopt or to do IVF due to medical reasons, but we were determined. Gaile has always wanted a red headed little girl. Her mother […]