Dear Family & Friends,

“God, why have you not given us any children? Don’t you love us? Don’t you care that our hearts are breaking?”

This is a painful and honest prayer that we have quietly prayed every month for 13 years.

We always imagined our journey to parenthood would be easy, but that has been far from our reality.  13 years of waiting. 13 years of crying out to the Lord. 13 years of having our hopes raised and crushed month after month.  One heartbreaking miscarriage after years of praying. 

Yet in God’s steadfast love and boundless grace, He always responded in gentle ways reminding us that we have so much to be grateful for and that He is pruning us to make us more like Him through these trials.  We have felt seen and known by a God who not only sees our pain and weeps alongside us, but gave up His life for wretched sinners like us, so that we could live an abundant life with Him forever.  And that is more than enough.  We know He is good even when our feelings want us to doubt His goodness or His love towards us.  God has written and is still writing our story.  It’s not a story we would have chosen for ourselves, but we are thankful for His sovereignty over our will.  His story is so much better.

We have taken the last few years to grieve, pray, and seek out wisdom and guidance to discern if we should grow our family through adoption. We talked to couples who have adopted and were advised that it can be a long, emotional, and financially costly journey.  But God confirmed over and over through prayer and conversations that the cost to adopt is worth it. 

So with hands open wide in surrender, we are taking this step of faith to adopt a newborn.  The total cost of our domestic infant adoption is $65,000, which includes agency fees, legal and attorney costs, medical expenses for the birth mother, travel for out-of-state placement, and post-placement fees.  

We are excited to share that we’ve been awarded two generous matching grants totaling $8,000 from Gregory’s Gift Adoption Fund and Lifesong for Orphans.  That means every dollar you give will be doubled up to $8,000!

If you feel led, would you consider giving financially toward our adoption? 

We are so grateful for all of your prayers, financial support, encouragement, and friendship.  

Thank you for walking this road with us, praying for us, and loving us through the years of waiting.  

With Love,

The Urtechos 

P.S. – READ EXCITING UPDATE BELOW –>>> BABY BOY URTECHO IS HERE!!!!!!!!!!

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