Kevin is a carpenter for a charity and Ann is a Speech Pathologist in the schools. We have been happily married for almost 10 years. We have diligently saved money to pursue our dreams. We have bought a nice home in the woods and developed our land to pursue our joys such as gardening and raising chickens. We also have trails that lead to quiet prayer spots. Everything is wonderful, yet we long to share our blessings with a child. Through domestic adoption we are able to make this hope a reality. We are planning on adopting a baby girl who will be born in Oklahoma in July of this year (2016). In July we will fly out to get our daughter from the hospital where she will be born. We will spend a couple weeks in Oklahoma for the legal work necessary to bring baby Black home. Any prayers and/or financial support would be greatly appreciated as our family will soon grow and we could use the support as we jump into all the changes.
Christ's Peace be with you.
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It's never too late; we're adopting again
30 years ago we adopted our oldest daughter through the foster care system domestically. This past winter we decided to try the orphan hosting programs and fell in love with the young man who spent the Christmas holiday with us. We sre now seeking support to adopt internationally. It is never too late children are such a blessing.
Ryan & Bonita
Dear Birth Mom, Hello...We are Ryan and Bonita, from central Alabama. Obviously we do not know you, yet we have thought about you many times since we have been praying for an adoption. We want you to know that we offer our heartfelt love and support to you as you make this important decision. We imagine that you may have some mixed and uncertain feelings and emotions regarding this, and while we cannot make them all disappear; we CAN tell you that we offer our true, genuine love for your baby and a happy home for children to grow up in, secure in our love. May God be with you and bless you in your decision.
We have one biological daughter, Caleigh, and have been unable to have another child. After several years of doctoring and prayers, we felt to grow our family by adopting a baby. We are so thankful that about two years later we were able to adopt a little girl, Rayna Claire. Her adoption has been a great blessing and a most beautiful answer to our prayers for another baby. We have a special relationship with Rayna's birth mother. We became close friends before Rayna was born and we maintain an open communicative relationship. She has a special place in our hearts and lives.
So we now have two daughters; Caleigh is six and Rayna is a year and two months old...and growing fast! We have always dreamed of having more children in our family, so we began to pray for another baby to adopt. That brings us into contact with you and we hope you can feel our honest care and concern for you and your child. We want whatever is best for you both. Your sacrifice will be our gain and we truly appreciate your difficult decision. Adoption has been a positive part of both of our lives since my sister and her husband have four adopted children, and Ryan's uncle and his wife have adopted children also.
We have a strong faith in God and are very thankful for his blessings to us. We are very active in our church and have many wonderful and supportive friends there. We enjoy a happy simple lifestyle and find rich fulfillment and contentment in serving God and our fellowmen. Our wish is to convey God's love and the grace he gives to all of us each day.
Now for a little more about us...we have been married for 10 years. I met Ryan in Florida volunteering on cleanup work after Hurricane Ivan. Our acquaintance grew into a friendship during the following years. Ryan proposed in July of 2005 and on October 1 we were married in a very special ceremony with many family and friends present. We share many of the same interests. Love of travel, history, outdoors, hiking and gardening have been the launch pad of many awesome memorable times together. A week of hiking in Glacier National Park, three weeks spent traveling to Zimbabwe, Germany and Switzerland, and a vacation to St. Augustine and Sea World in Florida are among our most favorite trips and anniversary celebrations. We are self-employed; farming corn, soybeans, and wheat and raising cattle. We own our single family 3-bedroom, 2.5-bath home on 12 acres that is a mix of woods and pasture. We have a big yard with a sandbox and swings for playtime. Our patio behind our house is enjoyed for outdoor meals and is a great space to host friends and family. Early in our marriage we set some goals for our relationship. Some of these included a commitment to and faith in God and our church, unselfishness in action and loving communication with each other. We are best friends and have a great time just being together!
I love being outdoors and spend a lot of time gardening in the summer. I help Ryan with the farm's book work and volunteer at our local library. I like to cook and enjoy hosting friends in our home. My family is from Georgia and we enjoy getting together several times a year. My parents have been married for 47 years and still live in the home I grew up in. My siblings are all married and have families of their own. ~ Ryan is even-natured, gentle and compassionate. He is a wonderful daddy to our girls and puts his home and family first. He works hard and provides well for us as a family. He enjoys hiking in the mountains, backpacking and fishing. Ryan's parents and family live close by and we enjoy many good times together. He has a sister and two brothers who are married and have families. Caleigh and Rayna love to play with their cousins!
Ryan and I were both raised in happy secure homes and neither of our families have any broken homes among them. They support us and are excited about our decision to adopt. Most of all we want to give our children unconditional love and teach them responsibility, honesty, and compassion so they may be a blessing to their families and communities. Sincerely, Ryan & Bonita
Hutton Family Adoption
We are so excited to be adopting a toddler from China! This will be our first child. We have been married for six years and we look forward to this new adventure called parenting. We are both very active at our congregation. James and I are daily Bible readers. We enjoy visiting widows, shut-ins and helping out family members. We consider ourselves blessed, that we get to share our lives with a child in the near future. God has wonderful plans for us and we are very thankful. So far, our homestudy is completed and the dossier will be completed after we get our USCIS Approval.
This Happy Chapter in Our Adventure Story
Our adoption story starts over 30 years ago when we first met. We were friends who began dating after the death of my husband's mother. At a point when we both wanted something more to life, we settled down and got married. Over the years we had chapters that included foster care to adoption; our eldest daughter is adopted. We went on to have four biological children. Those were many mostly happy chapters. Recently we experienced a mixed chapter when a parent was diagnosed with stage four cancer. We were honored and able cared for my mother in our home until she passed early in 2015.
We are now excited about using a small inheritance we received as the seed money for one more adoption. We initially joked about not getting enough money to change our lives, but using it to adopt would be an amazing change.
Anxious about our age we contacted Nightlight Christian adoptions in the fall and before we knew it we were hosting a Ukrainian orphan. We fell in love with this child and are so excited about this chapter. Having an opportunity to meet the child, introduce our children to him and bond with him was precious. Two of my adult children told me if we did not go ahead with the adoption they would have to.
What an exciting chapter. Here I am in my early 50's adding a child to our family. It has got us going to the gym at 5:30 in the morning doing everything we can to be the family this young man deserves.
Please consider supporting us in this journey, but I also encourage you to consider writing a similar chapter in your story; it will be an adventure.
Adoption
There is such a need all over the world when it comes to taking care of the orphan. There is an even greater need for the sibling groups. The larger the group/older they are, the smaller their chances are of ever having a forever family. The odds go down even more if they are boys. Which we think is crazy because we love the 3 boys that we have! They are loud & smelly & constantly wrestling with each other or shooting nerf guns! Boys eat almost everything in their path! They can be amazing friends as well as world changers. Adopting into our family won't make a very big dent in the 175 million+ orphan crisis, but it will make a difference to the ones we are going to bring home.
We are so excited to be adding to our "three ring circus"! ALL of the funds donated will be used for the adoption costs of the amazing kiddos! We are using Children of All Nations adoption agency out of Texas if you would rather donate straight to them:) Thank you so much for prayers and any donation you can give!
It is so very much appreciated! Love, the Ostwalds
A Desire to Love
We have had a passion and desire to adopt for many years. We knew we wanted to grow our family through adoption. We know that God desires us to take care of orphans and we feel that we have the capacity to love some of them into our family. We sponsor orphanages in Guatemala as we have been there for several mission trips. We long to be able to do more through adoption. Our children have a deep passion for children, especially the orphan. God has opened the door for us during this time to pursue this journey. We are all very excited for the children God has for us.
The Opitz Adventures
Sometimes, God whispers. Then there are times that God takes a mallet (or Bible Study Book) and straight up knocks you in the head. It was at Tuesday morning Bible Study that God poured lighter fluid on a tiny flame that was burning in my heart to adopt.
Shortly after Bible Study was over, I called Cody and told him the fire was back. God was telling me that our next baby should be adopted. In a way that only Cody can answer when I come up with an out of this world idea (typically these are just pets or paint colors) he told me to start looking again. Twenty Minutes. That's how long it took for me to fall in love with Collins. I am sure Cody did not expect his phone to begin blowing up with pictures of a little boy that was half a world away and suffered from Hydrocephalus. Rightfully so, Cody was a little nervous. How are we going to care for a little boy that needs brain surgery?!?!
My response was "It's not going to be easy, but we have the most amazing friends and family any two people could ask for, so we can do it."
Then, Cody told me I could call. Our Home Study is done, we have our biometrics appointment set up, and now we are waiting for the call to tell us we can meet our boy!!!
On top of adoption fees, we will have to travel to Ghana twice. Once to meet our boy, and then again after all of the court hearings are over and he is ours!!! As soon as we get home we will have an appointment with a neurologist to address his Hydrocephalus.
If you can help fund our adoption we will forever be grateful! But if you can't we will also forever be grateful for your prayers!! WE love you all!
The Leonard Family is Growing!
We are so excited at the opportunity to adopt. After many years of trying to conceive and not being able to get pregnant, we decided to look into adoption.
Hope Lives
Hi,
My husband and I have been through a long journey of painful miscarriages and a loss of a healthy baby newborn. I always worked with children and youth in churches and was just around a lot of them and always loved it. I tried to adopt when I was younger after having one child but they turned us down because we didn't make enough money, they said. How heartbreaking! All I did was think of all the children who didn't have a family to call their own, a mommy to tuck them in at night and tell stories to, or a daddy to play ball with.
My husband has been a Math teacher
for years and a wrestling coach. I have watched my husband act like a father figure with compassion and mentoring to many youth for years. It is sad to see such an honorable man not be able to raise his own children. I mentioned adoption a couple of years ago and he said he could easily see himself doing that. So here we are starting a hopeful, brighter chapter and new journey together. We feel like our children will be selected by God that belong in our family and he will bring all parts of his plan together. We don't know how it will all work out( finances, support, etc), but we trust it will. Yes, "hope lives."