Welcome to our adoption journey! We have been contemplating adoption for quite a while now. Even before we had our boys we always said that we would adopt if we were unable to have children. Well, the Lord blessed us with two perfect boys that have been such a blessing to us and it was not until several months ago that we began seriously discussing international adoption.
   In 2010, I made a couple of trips to Bogota, Colombia to bring supplies to orphanages and needy children there. It was those trips and the children there that rekindled a desire to do more. Several months passed before I mentioned this to Kristi. I wanted to make sure it was not just a passing phase or guilt from seeing how much we have and how little the children there have. It was no passing phase, as time went by that desire to do more only grew. The cost of adoption was the biggest reason for my reluctance to tell Kristi (the accountant of the family). I finally shared this with her in spite of the fact that I knew there was no way we could afford it. Little did I know she had been having the same desire to adopt. What a relief it was to know that she was also thinking of adoption. We both realized however, that there was no way we could do it without going into debt (something that we have promised ourselves we will not do - thanks Dave Ramsey).
   The lack of money initially stalled our adoption journey but we kept researching the process and thinking of ways to scrape together the cash. We began to realize that we would never start the process if we waited until we had all of the money saved. In December, 2010 we decided just to go for it. We began telling our family and close friends and just leaving the rest up to God.
   The support and encouragement from everyone has been far beyond what either of us could have imagined. The Lord has continued to show us that He will provide if we trust and submit to Him.

Chris