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We first met online eleven years ago through an app, and for our first date, we chose Starbucks, thinking it would be a quick cup of coffee. Four hours later, we were still engrossed in conversation, so we decided to grab dinner. What started as a short outing turned into a nine-hour adventure! From the very beginning, we felt God’s presence in our relationship, and we knew He had brought us together. After dating for over two years, we got engaged and married exactly one year later. Our journey has been filled with love, faith, and unforgettable moments. We have now been married for 8 years. Our love for each other is strong and continues to grow. We look forward to sharing that love with our child, helping them to thrive and reach their full potential. We want to share all of our passions and help our kiddo develop passions of their own.
We are each other’s missing piece, extremely different but alike in so many ways! We met through a dating app when Daniel gave it one last shot before deleting the app and coincidentally was Rochelle’s first match. The timing was meant to be! We hit it off immediately and started dating in early 2019. Daniel proposed in 2020 in Florida at Marco Island when we were walking along the beach. He had asked a kind stranger to take a picture of us on the beach but quietly asked her to record everything. After posing for the picture, Daniel got down on one knee. We were married a year later right after everything open up after Covid. It was a small intimate wedding on the beach in Key Largo, Florida. Rochelle’s Grandma was the flower girl and our pup was our ring bearer.
Getting married when we were older helped us start our relationship strong because we knew who we really were. Our life experiences helped shape us into adults who know to communicate effectively and appropriately. We are able to truly understand each other and tell each other what we need in our relationship. We are both hard workers and love to have fun and enjoy each other’s company.
We have always felt called to adopt, and passionate that families can be defined by LOVE as well as biology. We are grateful to be considered as you make such a loving decision for your baby.
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"Adventure is out there!" UP is our favorite movie. It would be awesome to talk more with you and see if you'd like to go on this adventure together!
Hello! We are Danny and Ingrid. We value our relationship with God, family, and each other, and are excited to share our unconditional love with another child. We are an adventurous, fun-loving family from Wisconsin and look forward to growing our family. Although we have struggled for several years with infertility, long before that God had placed adoption on both of our hearts. Our first discussion about it started back when we were dating long distance. We have been married now for 10 years and have been blessed with our son, Steven, through adoption. Steven would make such a great big brother, and would love to have a sibling to play with.
We are a faithful couple who desire nothing more than to do Our Heavenly Father's will. We are fun, creative, outgoing and prayerful. We try to our best to serve God in many ways, always putting God and family first. We live life to its fullest and do so by embracing God's creation, living a healthy lifestyle, fostering healthy relationships, and engaging in adventures! We enjoy the beauty of simplicity and because of this we are always happy.
We were married in 2017 and made our home in southcentral Minnesota. We were SO excited to start a family! God led us on a challenging journey with the loss of our boy before birth. After the losss of Samuel, doors were further closed as we pursued infertility treatments. We knew we were meant to be parents with God leading us to adoption. During this growing time, we realized more deeply how blessed it is to be given the opportunity to adopt. God has made us stronger as a couple through the challenges we have faced, and we have learned the importance of self-sacrificial love. We have come to believe that families are created, not born. God is the Master Designer of all families, and we trust his architectural plans for our family.
As a couple, we enjoy spending time outdoors and engaging in activities like hiking, camping, skiing, walking our dog Maverick, going to the lake and biking. We also have a love for Friday movie night, playing games and watching Minnesota sports. We feel blessed to have the opportunity to go on many travel adventures over the years, as we both love experiencing different cultures, visiting family and exploring the many beautiful places around our world.
Alyssa was living in Jackson, MS dancing and touring with a ballet company when Jon moved to California (where Alyssa is originally from) after college. He met Alyssa’s family through a mutual friend, and eventually met Alyssa when she was home on break. Jon was immediately attracted to her composure, beauty, and secure identity in Jesus. Jon was able to convince Alyssa to move home. We were engaged for 3 months and married 3 months later. I (Alyssa) was attracted to his confidence, his looks, and his love of Jesus. I knew that if I married Jon, I would feel secure and cared for the rest of my life.
We are a loving Iowa family hoping to grow our family through adoption and make you a part of our family if that's what you desire.
We have wanted to be parents since we got married in 2020 and it has been a long road, but we are preparing and ready for the day it finally happens.
We are so excited for the day we get to be parents and we are so grateful that you are considering us as prospective adoptive parents for your baby. <3
No matter what, our goal is to support you in your decision whether to parent, choose us for adoption or whether you pick another family. Your journey matters and we are so blessed to get the opportunity to walk alongside you!
Please reach out if you have any questions or would like to get to know us. <3
Hello!
Thank you for taking the time to get to know us. It is truly an honor to introduce ourselves to you and we hope that this gives you a small glimpse into our lives. We are Dan and Rebekah and we met at a camp that we both worked at in Wisconsin. Rebekah was immediately drawn to Dan's smile and fun personality. Dan was attracted to Rebekah's beauty and kindness. We were married in March of 2006 on a chilly, spring day surrounded by family and friends. Throughout our time together we have been growing and helping each other to be better people.
Our journey to parenthood has not been easy. It has always been our desire to have children, and we prayed for this for some time. We knew that we wanted to adopt one day and when we weren't able to get pregnant, we decided to pursue adoption rather than infertility treatment. After 12 years of marriage God blessed us with our daughter Eliana through the gift of adoption. Adoption has blessed our lives in more ways than we could have ever imagined! Not only did we gain a daughter, but we also feel like we added to our extended family with our daughter's bio family. We are so excited to be adding to our family through adoption again!
If you choose us, know that you will always be an important part of your child's story, and your child will grow up knowing just how very loved they are by you. We would love for you to continue to be a part of their life as well if that is something you would like. You are in our thoughts and prayers, and we hope to meet you soon!
We have been married for over 9 years. It feels like just yesterday but also like we have been together our whole lives! We fell in love with each other because of each others' passion for Jesus and for this generation to know Jesus. Together, we have felt called to serve and make disciples of Jesus specifcially with kids, students, and young adults. We absolutely love spending our days walking along side families and serving the church. Our home is always open and full of families spending time together. Our whole marriage is built on bringing glory to God together.
SInce the beginning, It's always been our desire to grow our own family. When we first got married, we decided to grow our family biologically and through adoption. We truly believe that adoption is a beautiful display of God’s love for all of us. While we have experienced so many wonderful life adventures, we know parenthood will be our favorite one.
What is an orphan is a common question when it comes to international adoption? Many people take the position that an orphan is a child who has lost both of his or her parents. Another common assumption is that an orphan is a child who is cared for in a community orphanage.
It is fair to say that both of these answers are correct. However, there is a need to answer the question with more information. Orphans around the world often have that distinction because of other factors separate from either losing their parents or living in an orphanage. The majority of the world’s orphans have their parents. Their parents are alive!
An orphan can be defined in a number of different ways, however, here is how the American Heritage Dictionary answers the question – What is an orphan?
The international community tends to use the broader definition of an orphan – “a child who is deprived of parental care.’ Their parents have usually not abandoned them because of an absence of love. Instead, it usually happens because of disease, poverty or other circumstances the inability to provide and care for the well-being of their child.
These children find themselves in the community with no place to stay and they must find a way to take care of themselves. Some of these children will make their way to an orphanage and receive food, shelter, and possibly even some schooling.
An orphan can be further classified by using definitions such as UNICEF’s “single orphans,” which is a child with only one parent who has died, or “double orphans,” which is a child with both parents having passed away. In practice, though, we tend to think of children living in orphanages as orphans, although it is possible that both of their parents are alive but not caring for their child.
An orphan is a child who, because of the death of parent(s), poverty, disease, or some other circumstance, is seeking to fend or care for himself whether through roaming and surviving on the streets or finding care and support through a orphanage.
No matter what the answer to the question “What is an Orphan” – there is a desperate need to meet the needs of these children around the world.