Towards the end of 2017 Jeremy and Kari got connected and officially started with us at Christian Adoption Consultants. In less than 12 months they would be holding their precious daughter in their arms! The journey in between was filled with unexpected insights that God wanted for them to experience. Listen to Kari as she shares their story: "Our family has had adoption on our hearts for years. It all began when God started opening our eyes to beautiful adopted children livi

Joanna turned 8 last week, and I love who she has become, and remember vividly all the things that led to our adoption journey of our 8th child. It was one of the hardest things we have faced in our life..... a failed international adoption. The "how's and why's" of that failed adoption are hard to explain, but we were matched and waiting for a court hearing to happen in Ethiopia at the time. We eventually found out that the court hearing didn't happen and they had set anothe

Jeff and Karen came to us at Christian Adoption Consultants in early August 2015. They flew to pick up their baby boy in August of 2016. In between was a broken and beautiful journey to their son, Braxton. It is a journey of pain, but also of God’s great faithfulness. As Karen says, “God is ALWAYS faithful”, and He proved this to them both. They learned, because of this process that when you are faithful, and put your trust in God, “He shows up. It may not be in the way we ex

In Part 1 of our post we shared the story of how we came to work for Christian Adoption Consultants five years ago. As adoptive parents of 9 children, and working professionally as adoption consultants, our lives revolve around adoption – it is something we live and breathe all the time. It is truly our joy and privilege to serve families going on their adoption journey. In this post we wanted to share our: Why we love working for Christian Adoption Consultants Top 10 We lov

These 'sympathy' flowers from our international adoption agency are pretty, but we weren't supposed to get them. Twice. The first time we got them was after we learned that our little girl that we were adopting in Ethiopia died from health complications just days before our adoption of her became finalized there. The name we had chosen for her was "Hannah Grace". The second bouquet of flowers arrived after the USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Service) denied o

We came to Christian Adoption Consultants in November 2014 after two horrible failed matches, financial loss and broken hearts. Being seasoned International Adoptive parents, but new to domestic adoption, we needed the expertise and advocacy of people who understood and ‘got it’. Dawn and Jason were just those people. We connected on so many levels, but especially on a spiritual level. I knew when Dawn came to us with a situation that she had already prayed over it and was tr