Hello! I'm excited to announce our next fundraiser! It is through Just Love Coffee and it's really easy to do. So if you love coffee or know someone who does, this is the fundraiser for you! You simply purchase your coffee or accessories from the link below and a portion of each sale will be sent directly to our adoption mission. If you would like to know what percentage of each item is donated to us just click the fundraiser tab at the top of the Just Love Coffee webpage. Check out the company too if you have time. They are great...all of their coffee is fair trade! https://justlovecoffee.com/about/beneficiary/higgiesplusone/

Adopted For Life

Adopted for Life is a WONDERFUL book by Russell Moore about the ministry of adoption. I would recommend anyone to read it! Whether you are interested in adoption or not, it could open your eyes to new truths you didn't even know you were missing out on. That's how it was with me. I learned more about my own relationship with God by reading this book on adoption than I thought possible. In one of my favorite parts of the book, Moore is says that God created the world to be a home but sin made it an orphanage. But God wants to adopt each human being into his own perfect family. Not because we deserve it (see Ephesians 2:8) but because of his great, deep and endless love. Everyone who accepts God as their Heavenly Father will someday leave this broken Earthly orphanage and meet him in their wonderful forever home: Heaven. Wow! Love it! Read the book! Adoption, both spiritually and physically, is such an important topic and this book covers it so well. Many libraries have it as well as Amazon and Audible. You can actually get used copies now for only a few dollars. As always, if you have any questions, send them our way :)

Publisher: http://www.crossway.org/books/adopted-for-life-tpb/
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Adopted-Life-Priority-Adoption-Christian/dp/1581349114

The Beginning

Hello friends and family! Many of you already know that we are hoping to adopt. We actually started the adoption process through foster care almost two years ago and near the end...surprise! We found out that Auggie was on the way so we put the adoption process on hold. Now that Auggie is a year old we have decided to begin the adoption journey again. This time, however, we are planning to adopt an infant. We are creating this blog to keep everyone updated on the ups and downs and ins and outs of our adoption experience. We hope that you will be thinking and praying for us often. We have several adoption fundraisers in mind so check back here and on facebook often. I will launch the first fundraiser within the week (I hope)! Now to answer a few questions:

1. Domestic or International? Domestic.
2. What agency are you planning to adopt through? Adoption Support Center in Indianapolis is who we are planning to go with. We went to an informational meeting and they seem great!  (However, we are also open to an independent adoption if we are some how connected to a birth mother who would like us to adopt her baby. We are really leaving this in God's hands.)
3. Boy or Girl? We have NO idea! We are open to either.
4. When will the adoption take place? When we save/raise the funding :)
5. How much does it cost? About $20,000.00 (More about the breakup of expenses soon.)

Have more questions? Feel free to ask!

So here we are at the beginning. Share with your friends, pray for us, and pray for the baby and birth mother. We are excited to see what God will do and teach us through this journey. Thank you for your love and support along the way!