God has been taking Danielle and I on a journey these past four years. This journey has involved hearing God's voice and following His leading in a specific area of our lives. Through God's faithful leading and wonderful people like you, Danielle and I are excited to announce that we are preparing to adopt a baby! We have been chosen by a birth mother who is having a baby boy and is due at the beginning of December. With God's leading and provision, we are hoping to bring home our baby and begin our family. Before we explain how you can partner with us in starting our family, I'd like to share a bit of our story with you.
Our Story...
A few years ago, God broke our hearts for the fatherless. Our eyes were opened to the overwhelming need not only around the world but right here in our backyard. Not only were our hearts broken and our eyes opened, but we were also convicted by the Spirit of God as to what our role in the lives of orphans must be...
Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world. - James 1:27
God has also shown me not only my role, but how adoption is a huge part of my story too! I was a slave to sin, but through Jesus' sacrifice on the cross I was brought into God's family. He adopted me! I have been made His son through the forgiveness that Jesus offers me through the cross. What is crazy to me is that God chose this before the world was created... He knew all of my sin that I was going to commit and He still chose to adopt me into His family as His son!
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved. - Ephesians 1:3-6
See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. ... Beloved, we are God's children now... - 1 John 3:1-2
But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian, for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. - Galatians 3:25-26
For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him. - Romans 8:14-17
See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. ... Beloved, we are God's children now... - 1 John 3:1-2
But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian, for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. - Galatians 3:25-26
For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him. - Romans 8:14-17
Much of the beauty of the gospel is shown in adoption. Danielle and I have committed to have the gospel saturate every area of our lives... our marriage, our relationships with others, our jobs, our finances... everything! Adoption is one way that we can show others the beauty of the gospel!
Needless to say... we are so excited! The more we sought God's direction on this, the more that it became clear that God's plan for us was to adopt. God has been leading us through this process for years and we are so excited to bring home our baby. We are learning more and more details about our baby but one thing has been certain... that God is perfectly orchestrating this big event in our life and we couldn't be more excited! Our ultimate desire is to care for the birthmother and bring home a child for our family!
Needless to say... we are so excited! The more we sought God's direction on this, the more that it became clear that God's plan for us was to adopt. God has been leading us through this process for years and we are so excited to bring home our baby. We are learning more and more details about our baby but one thing has been certain... that God is perfectly orchestrating this big event in our life and we couldn't be more excited! Our ultimate desire is to care for the birthmother and bring home a child for our family!
Your Help...
We don't want our adoption to just be our story though. We would love to invite you in and play a role in Danielle and I beginning our family. There are a few ways for you to help us:
46536 Greenridge Drive,
Northville, MI 48167
3. Stay updated on here or at Danielle's blog, thebarrygoodlife.wordpress.com, to hear all the news on
what's going on with our adoption.
Thank you, in advance, for your heart for our family. We are sincerely grateful for your partnership with us and we can't wait to see where God takes us and this baby that God has provided for us. Please feel free to contact Danielle and I if you have any questions and we'd love to answer them for you!
- Rick
- Prayer. We are asking that you would commit to praying for us... Regularly! Pray that we would find a birth mother, that finances would come together and that we would be ready.
- Financially. Adoption is expensive. If you would like to support us financially in bringing home our baby, please click here or you can mail checks or cash to us at:
46536 Greenridge Drive,
Northville, MI 48167
3. Stay updated on here or at Danielle's blog, thebarrygoodlife.wordpress.com, to hear all the news on
what's going on with our adoption.
Thank you, in advance, for your heart for our family. We are sincerely grateful for your partnership with us and we can't wait to see where God takes us and this baby that God has provided for us. Please feel free to contact Danielle and I if you have any questions and we'd love to answer them for you!
- Rick
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