Dan & Emily's Adoption Journey

  Sweet friends, Time is moving so quickly! We just scheduled our first home study. August 4th will be here before we know it! They say it takes a village to raise a child. It also takes a village to help build families through adoption! We have been so moved at the outpouring of love, prayers, and support as we navigate this journey. We've even been asked how people can help, so we're posting a few ways below!  1. Prayer There's so much to pray for. Please join us in praying for birth parents who have to make such enormous, selfless decisions. Pray for healthy pregnancies with strong pre-natal care. Pray for God to help us discern his will and direction for this process so that everything we do glorifies him. For our families as they journey alongside us. For comfort and peace in a potentially heartbreaking process. For us to be matched with the child God chooses for us. For strength and diligence.  Multi-cultural support.  Hope and comfort. Minimal grief/hardships....

    It's taken a long time to get to this point. We've always felt called to adopt, but we thought that would be part  of our story (not the  story). However, God leads us, and we follow. And we're so, SO excited to share that we've begun our adoption journey. This will be a long, arduous, exhaustive, exciting, hopeful, scary, emotional roller coaster process. There are many steps involved and there are no guarantees.  The purpose of this blog is to keep people who want to follow along with us updated. We know there are a lot of questions and will do our best to answer them. We plan to be certified to foster. Then, we hope to first adopt an infant through private placement, followed by fostering-to-adopt a sibling group or two in a few years. We also know that God's plan might differ from this, so we await his instruction! Once we complete our home study process, we intend to take a brief hiatus to save money and allow me to recover from surgery that is planned ...