UPDATE: 11/19/15

Our family is so blessed to be bringing home another precious girl from China. We arrived home in mid-June 2015 with Lila but we knew even before we left that we would be returning soon to China. Why? Why would we decide to return so quickly for another girl? The answer is GOD. We have been broken as we have seen the thousands of children that wait worldwide for a family. God commands us throughout the Bible to care for widows and orphans, to love our "neighbors" and share His love with the world. We are stepping out in faith and are hoping you will join us!

We know that not everyone can adopt but we can all support it in one or another. This isn't about us, it's about a sweet child in China who is waiting for a family of her own to love and belong to!

A fellow adoptive mom, Jenny Garity recently shared this post, it pretty well sums up our reasons for taking on a second adoption at this time.

"When you see my fundraising posts you might be asking yourself: Why in the world would someone who just completed an adoption and used all of their financial resources go running back to China for another child? Why wouldn't they wait until they've had time to save money again? I know you might ask yourself these questions because I would have been wondering the same thing just a few short years ago. So why?

• Because once you've been down the adoption road, you can't stop thinking about all of the children that have been left behind. 

• Because children don't belong in orphanages and you have a great sense of urgency to see these children in families, where they belong. 

• Because you can't un-see what you've seen on this journey, whether it's the inside of an orphanage or the faces of waiting children looking back at you, page after page on your computer screen. 

• Because you see with your own eyes the impact, both physically and emotionally, that the love of a family has on your child.

• Because we were not put on this earth to love and serve ourselves. We are here to love and serve God and others...to put the needs of others before our own. 

• Because God commands us in His word to defend orphans and to satisfy the needs of the oppressed. 

• Because you realize that the things money can buy are nothing compared to the redemption of a child's life.

• Because you have faith that if God has called you to this, He will provide. 

• Because it doesn't matter how hard this journey is, what matters is that children need families. 

• Because you've had a fire lit in your heart, a burning passion to see the orphan crisis come to an end.

The 153 million orphans worldwide are not someone else's problem, they are OUR responsibility. We ALL have a role to play in caring for these children. We can adopt, foster, pray, provide support financially and in lots of other ways.
It takes a VILLAGE to adopt a child. Thank you for being our village!"

That pretty much sums up our hearts. We are so excited to see what God has in store for us and our new family member!