Our Family and Orphan Care

From Megan:

Orphan care and adoption have long been a part of my heart. My family cared for foster babies while I was a teenager and I also have a domestically adopted brother, Stephen. Stephen is 16 years my junior, so I was really able to take in the meaning of adoption as I watched our family grow. In college, I majored in Human Services, with a special interest in adoption and foster care; I completed my internships in Foster Care. As a professional, my favorite job ever was at Seton Villa, a Catholic Charities group home, where I worked for 7 months before Behn and I moved. You can read one post about how my heart was stolen by a little boy here.

When Behn and I began dating, we discussed adoption. It's always been part of the plan, because we truly feel as though God has placed that desire in our hearts. We opened a savings account to begin saving for this adoption around the same time we began trying to have biological children. We're still saving, still waiting, still praying, because God has not yet brought us to the point where we can actually begin this adoption.

In 2010, Behn and I went on an Orphan Care trip to Ukraine with Behn's brother, Luke and his wife, Jessica. Jess and I were both in our 1st trimesters and not feeling very good, but God used that trip to open our eyes even more to orphan care. You are read about that trip here.

As our family continues to grow and we await God's perfect timing to bring our child(ren) home from wherever they are, we have in the meantime committed to sponsor a beautiful orphan in Ethiopia. We are doing so through Project Hopeful's Family in the Gap Program. We just started sponsoring her in December 2012, so hopefully we'll be posting on our experience with sponsorship soon!

Update: this summer (2015) we will be hosting a sweet little girl from Ukraine. V lives in an orphanage, so we are eager to make this summer special as she feels the love of a family. Our hosting agency is Open Hearts and Homes for Children. You can read more about our journey here.

Comments

  1. Adoption, God's Plan A is a book written by a friend of ours. It was actually his doctoral dissertation. He and his wife have 3 adopted children with special needs. I thought of you guys when I met them last month.

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