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Nov 5, 2019
3 min

Transracial Adoption Part Three - When It Breaks Your Heart

Thanks for reading Part 1 and Part 2 of this post, talking about how transracial adoption makes you ‘stick out’ and because of that you get the ’20 questions’ that often come. Today’s post is all about where it becomes very real. It can hit you in the face and not back down. It stings every time you enter a certain situation. It makes you want to throw your hands in the air and ask God why he made people different because some people will just never understand. I have the pri

Nov 5, 2019
3 min

Transracial Adoption Part Two - Choosing How To Respond To 20 Questions

This was us - 6 kids, aged 6 years old and younger! And yes, we hiked the mountains in Virginia together! In Part 1 of this post I talked about how we are a walking billboard for transracial adoption. Then comes the questions from people. You have several choices in how you respond to people’s questions: you can educate, ignore, stand up for what is right, and respond with laughter. As an adoption consultant with Christian Adoption Consultants I work tirelessly to support and

Nov 5, 2019
2 min

Transracial Adoption Part One - A Walking Billboard

It is obvious to say to most people when they see us out in public, but we don’t share the same skin color as our children (except 1). It has been obvious since our first outing with our oldest where there were whispers in the Burger King play area that she was not our biological daughter. We actually heard them whisper, “They have a black baby.” From that moment on we became a walking billboard to the world: for foster care and adoption. We were a walking billboard because w

Mar 28, 2018
3 min

Adoption Number 8: The Deep Sorrow That Led Us To You And So Much More.....

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

Nov 28, 2017
4 min

120 Children Home: Celebrating 5 Years As Adoption Consultants - Part 3

As a husband-and-wife professional team we get to spend lots of time sharing in our vocational passion of adoption consulting. We both bring different gifts to the table, and we work in different capacities, but we love talking about "our" families together. We get to celebrate the milestones, the good news, the heartbreaks, together. We believe we bring something unique and special to the Christian Adoption Consultants team - a group of equally special, gifted and talented a

Oct 11, 2016
5 min

An Adoption Dream Come True: Heather & Matt's Story

We have been blessed working as adoption consultants over the past four years, witnessing more than 60 children coming into their forever families through the amazing miracle we call "Adoption". We'd like to share the story of one family who recently brought home their baby girl. Matt and Heather had signed on with local agencies before hearing about Christian Adoption Consultants and had waited 10 months with only being presented to expectant moms twice.They heard about CAC

Jun 17, 2015
3 min

Adoption Story - Congratulations Sten & Amy!

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

Apr 23, 2015
3 min

Transracial Adoption – Let’s talk about it!

“Race” is a hot topic in America today isn’t it? We’ve all got opinions. Our news media is flooded with stories about racial tensions and problems. Transracial adoption is definitely not immune from being a hot topic either. This post could quite easily turn into strong opinion piece, and although I have my own strong opinions on transracial adoption I didn’t want this post to become a debate starter, and miss the point. (You can scroll to the bottom to hear a tiny personal p