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Kornoff Snowflake Embryo Adoptioin
Andrew and Jennifer
Aliso Viejo, CA
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STARTING 9/20/2023 Please see "Updates Tab" for adoption and fundraising updates. Shoe drive info will still appear here.
9/20/2023
SHOE DRIVE:
Shoe Drive Drop Off:
You can contact us anytime at 858-876-4222 to arrange a pick-up or drop-off.
We have also set up the following opportunities to make it easy for you to get your shoes to us:
1. We will be collecting shoes at Crossline Community Church on Sunday, October 1st at 10:30am. You can meet us in the Chapel Parking Lot or drop off in the bin on the stairs of the Ed Building.
3. Drop off at Crossline Christian Preschool! If you attend the preschool, you can drop off shoes any day your are there. If you don't attend the preschool, you can drop off on Sundays when you arrive or are leaving church. The bin is in the stair well of the Education/Preschool Building.
4. We have a drop off box at Olympica Gymnastics in Mission Viejo! You can drop off shoes there Monday-Saturday when the gym is open.
5. Saturday, September 30th we will be having another Drive Thru Shoe Drop Off between 10am-12pm at Dinosaur Park in Laguna Hills. 25555 Alicia Pkwy, Laguna Hills, CA 92653
For any question about the shoe drive contact us at KornoffShoeDrive@gmail.com or 858-876-4222
DISCLAIMER: We do realize that we accidently added an "I' in adoption in our title. There is no way for us to change it, sorry!
TLDR: We are Jennifer, Andrew and Arya. Thank you for taking the time to stop by our page. We are currently in the process of adopting embryos through the Snowflake Embryo Adoption Program. God has placed a passion on our hearts for frozen embryos, of which there are a million. These embryos need a womb and a family-- we are able to provide both of those and would love to welcome more children. We are seeking to raise funds to help us finance our remaining costs. We estimate that our total adoption program and medical costs to be about $21,000. God has been gracious in providing us the finances needed so far, but we estimate that we still need to raise about $14,000 total. We need $4,500 by the end of September so we can start the paperwork to make 5 little embryos legally ours! We greatly appreciate any gift towards our embryo adoption you are able to give.
Our Story
We began dating in November 2009. It was love at 3rd date! We knew we had found the one! We were married a short 10 months later in September 2010. We immediately started trying for children and had no success. After struggling with male and female factor infertility for over 5 years, we gave birth to our IVF conceived daughter, Arya, in September 2016.
Once Arya was about 18 months old, the grief surrounding the loss of our other embryos from our IVF cycle began affecting Jennifer greatly. Through this grief and resulting healing process, God has developed within us a deep passion and love for frozen embryos. We believe they are little lives paused in time just waiting for a chance to grow and become who God has designed them to be. In order for that to happen, they need both a body to grow in and a loving family to grow up in. We are able to offer both of those things and rejoice at the fact that God has provided a way for us to do something with the passion He has given us for frozen embryos!
Our heart is one of adoption. We chose embryo adoption through the Snowflakes program because we believe God has called us to do embryo adoption by placing this love and passion in our hearts, and our hearts have plenty of room for more children! We believe God cares about those most vulnerable and calls us to help them-- this includes frozen embryos. Our desire to raise more children has never waned. We absolutely love being parents. We would love to have 2-3 more children. Arya has been praying for a sibling since she was two. She is excited about the possibilities our embryo adoption brings. We cannot tell you how much we want to adopt embryos and see what God has in store for our family!
To do so, week are seeking to raise funds to help us with the remaining costs of our embryo adoption. Altogether, the Snowflakes costs and medical costs will be about $21,000. We are working on raising about $7,000-9,000 more to complete our embryo adaption and frozen embryo transfer (hopefully that will result in a pregnancy!).
Our estimated costs are as follows:
Application fee: $500 (paid)
SFE home study fee: $1500 (paid)
Cost related to completing homestudy: approx $1,000 (paid)
Matching Phase Fee; $4,000 (paid)
Contract Phase Fee: $4,500 (Paid!)
Clinic Consultation Fee: $350 (paid)
Clinic Admin fee for shipping embryos: $550
FET fee: $4,000
Estimated medication costs: $1,000-2,500+
Labratory work: $2,000
If you are able to help us, we would greatly appreciate it! Adoption Bridge is able to give you a receipt for your donation so you can write it off on your taxes. Adoption Bridge does take 3% of credit card transactions, so if you want all your money to go to us, feel free to contact us to see what other options are available.
Thank you,
Andrew, Jennifer, and Arya
8 Family Updates
Donors
Gerri Donnelly
Super excited to see your amazing family grow Kornoff’s! We love you!
Jean Strand
wendy van der klomp
Very exciting!! Lots of love to you all!!
Irene Dermody
PJ Moore
Praying for you and your family, sweet friend!
Kimerly Prince
Good luck!
Marcela Jaquez
Praying for you!! God providing and answering your prayers!
Alexandra Cefalu
Praying for you all! Love the cefalu family
Nazha Dagher
Praying for your growing family!
Tina Schroeder
Praying for you!
Nancy Coulehan
Prayers for successful fundraiser🙏🏻
Brendon Newman
Blessing of Jesus on you
Steve and Cathy Ambrose
Kornoff Family, We think what your guys are doing is awesome adopting embryos. We want to show our support by helping you reach your goal. Love and blessings to you all.
Please keep praying for us! That continues to be our primary need. Thank you.
We had our Fundraising Event on Sept 10th. We raised $1400 related to the event and collected 50 pairs of shoes! Thank you to all who participated and donated! We were able to pay our next fee and have entered into the Contracts Stage of our embryo adoption because of it! Wohoo! At this point, we have raised and saved over $13,000 and spent over $12,000 on adoption related costs.
Currently, we have collected 41 bags of 25 pairs of shoes. Our goal is at least 60 bags of 25 pairs of shoes. This will get us about $500 and provide shoes for small businesses in developing countries to help the economies there! If we could get 100 bags, we will average more money per bag collected. Right now we will not have that 100 bags by September 30th, so please help us collect shoes! We should see money from the Shoe Drive in late October or early November.
We have officially entered the "Contracts Phase" of our embryo adoption. This is where the 5 little embryos that have been frozen for 9 years become ours legally and then will be shipped to our local clinic. Our next fee is the $550 fee for our clinic related to shipping administrative costs.
We had our first consultation appointment with the doctor on Monday, and thankfully our HSA covered that appointment! Jennifer will have to have a procedure/test completed next week that will cost $800 which will be able to be covered by the amount we have raised.
We have also applied for a couple of grants and should hear back from those soon. If we were to get a $4,000 -$5,000 grant or raise that much more, we would be able to finish this whole thing!
Tomorrow is our Apple Fest Fundraiser! We are so excited. We only need to raise about $833 to be able to pay our next adoption agency fee and then we will be going on to the "Contract Phase" and the embryos will become ours legally. We will update you here so you can know how the fundraiser goes! We are excited and nervous to see what happens, but more than anything we are so thankful of the love and support that everyone is displaying during our journey!
ADOPTION UPDATE (from 8/24/23):
We received word that our doctor has approved our embryos! This means that as soon as we have the money, we can move to the next phase- which is the "Contracts Phase". This is where all the legal paperwork gets written and signed and then the embryos are ready to be shipped to our local clinic. We don't have the whole fee at this time (as of today we still need $1905 for the "contract phase" fee), so we have been allowed until the end of September to pay the fee. Once we enter the contracts phase, we will need about $900 (a $350 consultation fee and a $550 administration fee for shipping the embryos) probably within a month of entering the "contracts phase". We are very excited and more than a little astonished at how quickly things are going!
SHOE DRIVE AND FUNDRAISING UPDATE:
SHOE DRIVE DROP OFFS:
1. We now have a bin at Crossline Christian Preschool! If you attend the preschool, you can drop off shoes any day your are there. If you don't attend the preschool, you can drop off on Sundays when you arrive or are leaving church. The bin is in the stair well of the Education/Preschool Building.
2. We have a drop off box at Olympica Gymnastics in Mission Viejo! You can drop off shoes there! Monday-Saturday when the gym is open.
3. We will be having another Drive Through Drop off on Saturday, September 30th from 10am-12pm at Dinosaur Park in Laguna Hills.
For any question about the shoe drive contact us at KornoffShoeDrive@gmail.com or 858-876-4222
FUNDRAISING EVENT: We are having an Apple Fest fundraising event in Rancho Mission Viejo on Sunday, September 10th. If you have not received an invitation yet and would like to attend (we'd love to have you!), please reach out to us at 858-876-4222 . We will have games and activities for the kids, a bake sale, dinner, candles and other items for sale. You can also drop off shoes at the same time!
FUNDRAISING:
Including the money donated on this page, we currently have saved and raised $2,595.41 which is about 57% of what we need for the next stage in our adoption. We can only raise 1/3 of our costs through adoption bridge which is why you won't see all of the amount we have raised here on adoption bridge. Thank you so much to all of you who have contributed!
Currently, we have collected 26 bags of 26 pairs of shoes. Our goal is 100 bags of 25 pairs of shoes. This will get us about $1,000 and provide shoes for small businesses in developing countries to help the economies there!
We have now passed the 50% mark of what we need for the "contract phase" of the embryo adoption! We have saved and raised $2,264.24 out of the $2,500 that we will need! We anticipate needing that money most likely in the beginning or middle of September. It could be sooner or later depending on how long the doctor takes to review and approve our embryology report. Thank you so much to all those who have donated!
FUNDRAISING UPDATE:
Including the money donated on this page, we currently have saved and raised $2,029 which is about 45% of what we need for the next stage in our adoption. We can only raise 1/3 of our costs through adoption bridge which is why you won't see all of the amount we have raised here on adoption bridge.
Currently, we have collected 13 bags of 25 pairs of shoes. Our goal is 100 bags of 25 pairs of shoes. This will get us about $1,000 and provide shoes for small businesses in developing countries to help the economies there! We anticipate receiving the money from the shoe drive in October or early November.
SHOE DRIVE DROP OFFS:
1. We have a drop off box at Olympica Gymnastics in Mission Viejo! You can drop off shoes there! Monday-Saturday when the gym is open.
2. Drive Through Drop Off on Saturday August 19th from 10am-12pm at Dinosaur Park in Laguna Hills! Come to the parking lot and quickly drop off your shoes!
Address: 25555 Alicia Parkway, Laguna Hills, CA 92656
3. We will be collecting shoes in the Altiesse Community on August 19th. If you received a flyer, please put your shoes on your door step or in front of your garage before 2pm. If you did NOT receive a flyer, contact us at 858-876-4222 or KornoffShoeDrive@gmail.com with your address so we can be sure to stop by!
5. We will be collecting shoes at Crossline Community Church in Laguna Hills SUNDAYS at 10:30am August 20, September 10 & 17, and October 1st. Meet us in the Chapel Parking lot. Look for our Black Pick-up.
For any question about the shoe drive contact us at KornoffShoeDrive@gmail.com or 858-876-4222
ADOPTION UPDATE:
We accepted the embryos from the family that chose us! What this means: this means that our doctor will review the embryology report. If he approves it we will then move into the "contracts" phase which is where all the paperwork is completed and the embryos become legally ours and are shipped to our clinic. We've been told it can take up to 6 weeks for the doctor to approve the embryos. Please continue to keep us in prayer!
SHOE DRIVE DROP OFF UPDATES:
1. We will be collecting shoes at Crossline Community Church TOMORROW, Sunday August 6th at 10:30am in the chapel parking lot. Look for our black F150.
2. We now have a drop off box at Olympica Gymnastics in Mission Viejo! You can drop off shoes there!
3. We are doing a Drive Through Drop Off on August 19th from 10am-12pm at Dinosaur Park in Laguna Niguel!
4. We will be collecting shoes at Crossline Community Church in Laguna Hills TUESDAYS at 8:10pm on August 8
5. We will be collecting shoes at Crossline Community Church in Laguna Hills SUNDAYS at 10:30am August 6 & 20, September 10 & 17, and October 1st. Meet us in the Chapel Parking lot. Look for our Black F150.
For any questions about the shoe drive, contact us at KornoffShoeDrive@gmail.com or 858-876-4222
SHOE DRIVE DROP OFF UPDATES:
1. We now have a box at Olympica Gymnastics in Mission Viejo! You can drop off shoes there!
2. We are doing a Drive Through Drop Off on August 19th from 10am-12pm at Dinosaur Park in Laguna Niguel!
3. We will be collecting shoes at Crossline Community Church in Laguna Hills TUESDAYS at 8:10pm on August 1 and August 8
4. We will be collecting shoes at Crossline Community Church in Laguna Hills SUNDAYS at 10:30am August 6 & 20, September 10 & 17, and October 1st.
For any question about the shoe drive contact us at KornoffShoeDrive@gmail.com or 858-876-4222
7/27/23 UPDATE: We have a few updates for you all!
1. Yesterday we received a match! We have a couple weeks to decide if these embryos are the ones we wish to accept. Pray for us to have wisdom!
2. Fundraising: Our Shoe Drive Fundraiser begins next Tuesday. We will be collecting shoes at Crossline Community Church in Laguna Hills at 8:10pm on 8/1 and 8/8 as well as Sundays at 10:30am on 8/6, 8/20, 9/10, 9/17, and 10/1. We will also be conducting a drive by drop off at Dinosaur Park in Laguna Niguel from 10am-12pm on 8/19. Contact us with questions: KornoffShoeDrive@gmail.com