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Mar 18, 2019
6 min

Lemons From Lemonade - Brandon & Kathryn's Adoption Story

It has been an honor of ours to be adoption consultants for Brandon and Kathryn, and to see their family grow by the blessing of adoption. I (Dawn) had the privilege of also being able to present for the adoption finalization hearing here in Florida! What a blessing and honor to be invited - this is the 'icing on the cake' in my job. Kathryn shares their adoption story so beautifully, along with equally beautiful photographs that capture such beauty and love. Emma, two weeks

Jul 6, 2018
3 min

From Infertility To New Life: My Story of God's Miracles

My story of infertility is unique and extremely unusual, but the same as anyone else who has struggled with infertility. Hello my name is Dawn and I have not been able to physically bear children. Oh it’s not that I don’t believe in miracles because I absolutely do! I have 9 children so there are many evidences of God's miracles already, but there is one big miracle that started our journey to adoption and that was me. It started when I was about to turn 8 years old. Our fami

Apr 10, 2018
5 min

"Desired" - Jeremy and Kari's Adoption Story

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

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

Feb 6, 2018
1 min

"Braxton Is The Joy Of Our Lives" - Jeff and Karen's Broken And Beautiful Adoption Jou

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

Jan 26, 2018
6 min

"Wow, He's Home With Us!" - Jon & Sarah's Adoption Story

Jon and Sarah inquired and then got started with us at Christian Adoption Consultants in March of 2017. In just 7 months their little boy was home – a precious 18-month-old! In adoption this is a short period (which is right in the middle of CAC’s average 6-9-month time frame our families wait from inquiry to match), but in the midst of waiting, presenting to situations, and praying for direction, it can seem to take forever, especially when you have heard “No” several times.

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

Nov 20, 2017
2 min

120 Children Home: Celebrating 5 Years As Adoption Consultants - Part 2

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

Nov 18, 2017
3 min

120 Children Home: Celebrating 5 Years As Adoption Consultants - Part 1

What an amazing and blessed journey this has been for us as a couple over these past five years! Words cannot describe the awesome joy and privilege that it is to encourage and walk alongside so many families in their adoption journey. We get to wake up each morning in the knowledge that we will see God’s hand at work in bringing children into their forever family. “Adoption is something we often dreamed about but never thought it would happen. Using CAC made the process a lo

Oct 30, 2017
4 min

Our Family Begins - Justin and Andrea's Adoption Story

We love to do what we do as adoption consultants - we really do have a dream job! What could be more fulfilling than to walk alongside a couple from an inquiry about where to start with an adoption all the way to that amazing day when they stand in front of the judge who declares they are now a forever family! There are always ups and downs to the roller coaster ride of adoption (Remember - on roller coasters they make sure you are safely buckled in for the ride), and Justin

Jun 20, 2017
4 min

How God Changed My Mind About Open Adoption

The reality of open adoption can be challenging and scary, but I love when God throws open the doors of how He wants to grow us. This is a beautiful story written by one of our families, David & Ashley who came to us at Christian Adoption Consultants inquiring about domestic adoption this past December. Ashley shares: "This is the truth, but my truth. I'm not going to sit here and pretend that “Open Adoption” was where I originally envisioned our adoption path to lead to. It

Feb 17, 2016
2 min

Adoption and Good Excuses: Jon and Angel's Adoption Story

Meet Jon & Angel: This is their story of adoption and well meaning excuses..... Adoption had been on our hearts for years, starting very early in our marriage. However, we kind of set it aside as we had our 3 biological children. When our youngest turned 3, God really started to prompt us again to start the adoption process. However, we had excuse after excuse. Good excuses we thought. We told God that we would do it, BUT....once we had so much money in savings, and onc

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