The Price Family is excited to expand their family through adoption! Joe and Amy have been married for 6 years and have 4 children; biological and adopted. Joe works in insurance and Amy is an interior designer and they live in Iowa. They are in the process of adopting a little boy from Bulgaria. Amy […]
We’re just an ordinary family living the extraordinary life by stepping out in faith in place of standing frozen in fear. If you’d have told me last Spring that I would be once again speeding through the adoption paperwork pile I wouldn’t have believed you. So on this very day I stand in awe at […]
Nick and Joy were married 11 years ago and early on in their marriage they desired to be set apart for God. Their family verse is Ephesians 2:10 “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.” Nick and Joy are examples […]
The Calo family is excited to be expanding their family again via adoption! Three years ago we hosted two sisters over the Christmas holiday. The connection with the girls was instantaneous, like we had always known each other, so we continued to host them several more times until God allowed us to begin the adoption […]
The Wasinger family is thrilled to announce their second adoption from Eastern Europe! They are (currently) a family of 5. Lauren and Nick, along with their two biological children, were thrilled to bring home a daughter from Bulgaria in 2011 through special needs adoption. It has blessed all of them in so many ways! Lauren […]
Devin, an IT manager at an electric cooperative, and Melissa, a former teacher, have been married for six years and have two children, a toddler and a teen that make life full and fun! They love spending time together, hiking, fishing, exploring new parks and destinations. For many years Melissa felt God placing the special […]
The Marsh family is so excited to be growing their family through adoption. They are currently parents to Alex, Sony, and Chelsea and are working on bringing a sibling group of two brothers home. Shannon and Jay both have a long history in special needs adoption. Shannon previously adopted her two daughters as a single […]
The Ampe family is returning to Eastern Europe to adopt two more children. They will have a “Baker’s Dozen”! Joe and Tiffany currently have eleven children ages 2-20. Two of their children are amazing preschoolers that they adopted from Ukraine, who just happen to have Down Syndrome. The Ampe family lives on a homestead in […]
I am happy to introduce you to the Umstead family. They are a family of 11! Tom and Heather have 4 biological children who are all adults. Tom, along with his brother-in-law, father-in-law and son, own their own business where they cut trees and sell the timber. Heather stays at home with the kids and […]
Zachary and Caitlyn Connelly are the parents of 5 biological children. They are starting the journey to adopt a 2 year old boy from Eastern Europe. They know this may seem radical to some people but being the hands and feet of Jesus is what we are called to do, right? Adoption is expensive and […]
Chris and Kelli have been married for almost 10 years. They have 3 wonderful biological children and are so excited to be adding 2 more wonderful children to their family through adoption. Chris works part-time as a pastor and he owns his own small woodworking business. Kelli works with preschool and elementary age children as […]
Hi! We are Steven and Anna, and we have four amazing kids! We got married in 2010 and immediately started talking about having a family. We knew that we wanted adoption or foster care to be part of our story, but there is no way we could have envisioned how God would bring us all […]
Phil and Kristie Graves have been married for almost 2 decades. Phil met Kristie when he became the youth pastor at Faith Baptist Church in Maryland in 2001. Kristie was teaching senior high Sunday school and Phil thought she was pretty nice from the very beginning. For several years, Phil and Kristie discussed the idea […]
We are the Johnson family! Meet Dad, Kevin, and Mom Seana. Kevin raced motocross professionally for years before he retired and is now a realtor. Seana is a stay-at-home homeschool teacher to their 5 children. Our kids are Preslie (13), Gavin (10), Kenlie (8), Emmaline (5), and Everleigh (1 1/2). We are overjoyed to be […]
The Collins Family is excited to expand their family and add a new little one to the bunch! Lee & Diana have been married for 22 years and are the proud parents of 4 amazing children. Spencer is 20 years old, Trevor is 19, Emma is 12, and their youngest daughter Kenzie is 4 years […]
Meet the Anderson-Hansen Family! Charlie and Liz have a blended family with 5 children: Ethan (15), Savanna (13), Abby (12), Emmeline (5) and Cameron (4). Charlie and Liz each brought children from first marriages (the oldest 3), had one child together (Emmeline) and adopted one child through DCF. They are both registered nurses. Charlie works […]
We are the Perryman family we have been married for almost 28 years now. God has blessed us with 3 bios. Children 26 ,21,14 & a daughter in law. This is our 2nd adoption from Asia. God blessed us with Eliyahu who is now 6. We brought him home in Nov. 2018. He was born […]
Girl, born 2012 Hydrocephalus New pictures, April 2017. Video. Listed Oct 2014
When I was in college in 1996, I had the opportunity to travel to Haiti on a service learning trip. It was there I met the most precious child, a social orphan, like so many in the world. And she planted a seed that took years to spout. In 2010, I traveled with family to […]
Meet the Palms! Adam and Carolyn and their kids: Doug, Adam, Veronica, Matthew, Mary, Jack, Regina, Gabriel, and Gemma. When Adam and Carolyn were married almost seventeen years ago, they knew God was calling them to raise a family, but did not know if they would be able to have biological children. Even before they […]
Meet the Boyer family! Shane (dad) works in the manufacturing industry. April (mom) stays at home and homeschools their five children. They live on a small homestead in Ohio. Shane and April began the process to foster-adopt early on in their marriage and soon found out they were expecting their second child, so they decided […]
Hi! We are Jonathan and Melissa Pfenninger. We have two beautiful daughters named Ivy (4) and Elliott (2) and are in the process to bring home a third! We did not start out the adoption process in your typical way. While very open to adoption, our plans were always to build our family through biological […]
Over the last 11 years of my life has been forever changed by the wonderful work Reece’s Rainbow is doing helping orphans with special needs around the world find forever families. For me it all started, having my older sister, Sarah who has Down syndrome in my life. I have with the help of my […]
Girl, born 2009 Internal hydrocephalus (operated), spastic tetraparesis with movement disorders, open oval window, development delays Listed: October 2015 VIDEO: https://goo.gl/photos/Sdw2Gk8qf9n2rYcC9 From a family who met her summer 2015: This little girl is wonderful! I have never met a child with so much personality and spunk. She absolutely loves people and she is so desperate for attention. I held […]
Patrick and Lindsey have devoted their lives to changing the lives of kids from all different backgrounds and abilities. They always knew they would adopt internationally, but it wasn’t until 2020 when God said to step out in faith and they decided to push forward. After fostering for over 10 years, they decided to pursue […]
Meet the Breckenridge Family! Scott (dad), Jenna (mom), Aeson (13), and Rowan (8)! They are a fun loving family who enjoy the little things in life. They reside in Iowa, but love to travel as much as possible! The Breckenridge family is looking to bring home 3 boys from Eastern Europe very soon! While they […]
We are the Darnowski family. We just adopted three little toddlers, who don’t yet toddle, from Eastern Europe! Elizaveta (Carmen on RR) 15 mos, Yuri (Quill) 2.5 and Piotr (Kade) 2.5 years. We realized that some other families were going back again right after adopting, to adopt again. They so inspired us, that we decided […]
We are the Allardice Family from Fall River, MA. Our family includes Erica, Ian and our 2 children Kailee 12yo and Rylan 7yo. Our story started many years ago when Ian and I were only 15yo we met in driving school. We became close friends throughout high school. We parted ways after graduation and went […]
Brian and Stephanie have grown their family in nearly every possible way: biology, step parenting, foster care and international adoption. Nine of their children are “permanent members” but a handful of extras call them mom and dad from their years as foster parents, and they have even recently added the title of “bonus grandparents” to […]
Hi My name is Denise. I am in the process of adopting sweet little Lazar. The Lord has been leading me to him and I would like to share how. I grew up in a large family, so there were always babies and little ones around. At even such a young age, I knew I […]
Meet the Peters family! This beautiful family is excited to be on their second adoption working hard to bring home a precious girl born with Down Syndrome. Joe and Ronda have a special admiration for people born with Down Syndrome, their fourth child being born with DS, opened their world to the beauty of everyone […]
Hi! We are the Ray Family. We have been blessed with 3 bio kids, aged 16, 13, and 10, but we have felt a calling that our family is not quite complete. For a while, we were a foster care home, and while we learned a lot and were blessed by all the kids that […]
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Jason grew up in Oklahoma and spent most of his life in Texas and Merilee is from Georgia. Their story didn’t begin until they met while working overseas in Tokyo, Japan. After falling in love and deciding they wanted to start a future together, they were married and began the hard work of blending their […]
Jayme and her daughter, Londyn Grace, have prayed to grow their family. Jayme is a Supervisor for a restaurant chain in Virginia. She has worked for this company for 10 years and now has the flexibility to grow her family. At first, Jayme had considered fostering a child; however, she knew that her and Londyn […]
Sara and Shandon have been married for 17 years. Together they have 4 biological children. Aged 25, 22, 13 and 2. Shandon is a truck driver and Sara a stay at home mom. Sara had always known that she wanted adoption to be a part of her future since she was young. Her and Shandon […]
Girl, Born 2012 Mild mental retardation; suspected autism; Disorder of brain, unspecified; Other congenital valgus deformities of feet; Congenital dislocation of hip, unilateral; Convergent concomitant strabismus Carly’s younger sister and brother have been adopted.
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Girl, born 2013 Spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy, Profound intellectual disabilities, Other cardiomyopathies, Optic atrophy, malnutrition, Localization-related (focal) (partial) symptomatic epilepsy and epileptic syndromes with simple partial seizures
Girl, born 2017 Spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy, Spastic hemiplegic cerebral palsy, Severe intellectual disabilities, Torticollis, epilepsy, limb deformities, Anisometropia and aniseikonia, Disorders of refraction and accommodation, malnutrition
Boy, born 2017 Developmental disorder of speech and language, Other phakomatoses, Umbilical hernia, Congenital malformation of cardiac chambers and connections, Esotropia, Congenital ptosis, malnutrition, anemia, Other disorders of psychological development
Girl, born 2019 Atresia of esophagus with tracheo-esophageal fistula (post-op); Other specified congenital malformations – she has 4 fingers in each hand; Other disorders of nervous system; malnutrition
Girl, born 2014 Ataxic cerebral palsy, Developmental Delay, Expressive language disorder, Hypertrophy of adenoids, Esotropia, congenital malformations of urinary system
Boy, born 2019 Disorder of brain, Undescended testicle, Other specified chromosome abnormalities, Congenital Heart Defect (Atrial septal defect & Other specified congenital malformations of heart), Hypermetropia He has a severe heart issue, doctors do not give him a chance for heart surgery, by their opinion he needs heart transplantation, and it’s impossible in his home […]
Boy, born 2010 Spastic diplegic cerebral palsy, Severe intellectual disabilities, Microcephaly, Other congenital malformations of brain, Congenital malformation of cardiac chambers and connections, Other specified congenital malformations
Boy, born 2012 severe mental delays, malnutrition, anemia, rickets, congenital deformation of clavisternomastoid muscle, myopia, hemangioma
Boy, born 2015 Blindness (both eyes), Severe intellectual disabilities, Other disorders of brain, anemia, Other cardiomyopathies
Girl, born 2011 Severe intellectual disabilities, malnutrition, anemia, Other cardiomyopathies
Boy, born 2009 severe mental delay, cardiomyopathy, atrophy of visual nerve
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Boy, born 2006 Severe mental delay, scoliosis, strabismus, flat feet, atrophy of visual nerve
Girl, born 2012 mental delays, hypermetropya, strabismus, rickets, anemia, congenital deformation of sternocleidomastoid muscle, congenital deformation of hip
Girl, born 2009 severe mental delay, autism, congenital heart disease, myopia, strabismus
Boy, born 2011 severe mental delay congenital anomoly the development of the brain low parapareses damage of functions of walking
Girl, born 2011 severe mental delay, cerebral palsy, concomitant strabismus, astigmatism, contracture joint, unspecified heart disease
Boy, born 2009 severe mental delay hypermetropia atopic dermatitis heart disease gallbladder disease
Boy, born 2009 moderate mental delay epilepsy microcephalus
Girl, born 2008 severe mental delay cerebral palsy microphtalm concomitant strabismus, unspecific anemia
Girl, born 2012 PRC Spina Bifida, Club foot London is a kind, smart, beautiful, shy, and determined girl, born in November of 2012, who interacts positively with her caregivers and the other children. London enjoys watching cartoons, listening to music, and playing with other children. Her favorite activities include singing and playing with dolls and […]
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Boy, born 2018 Multiple congenital malformations, not elsewhere classified Other specified congenital malformations of brain spastic tetraplegia Other generalized epilepsy and epileptic syndromes Aortopulmonary septal defect Nonrheumatic mitral (valve) insufficiency Pain in joint Harlan has 2 siblings: his half-sister, born in 2010, is not adoptable because she lives in her biological father’s family. His […]
Boy, born 2014 Other specified congenital malformations of brain spastic paraplegia Communicating hydrocephalus Severe intellectual disabilities Other congenital valgus deformities of feet Congenital malformation of optic disc He has an older half-sister; she lives with family.
Girl, born 2010 Listed: Nov 2020 Spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy Microcephaly Localization-related (focal) (partial) symptomatic epilepsy and epileptic syndromes with complex partial seizures Other cardiomyopathies Iron deficiency anemia, unspecified
Boy, born 2009 Listed: Nov 2020 Arthrogryposis multiplex congenita Mild intellectual disabilities delayed development following protein-calorie malnutrition
Girl, born 2010 Compression of the brain; Unspecified severe protein-calorie malnutrition; Protein-calorie malnutrition of moderate and mild degree; Specific developmental disorders of speech and language
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Boy, born 2019 Fetal alcohol syndrome (dysmorphic) He has 5 siblings in the family-style children home, they are not adoptable.
Boy, born 2017 Other congenital malformations of brain By his medical statement his psychological development does not match his age
Boy, born 2014 HIV disease resulting in other specified conditions Seborrhea capitis Disorder of central nervous system, unspecified Congenital deformities of feet Mixed specific developmental disorders Expressive language disorder Mixed behavior and emotional disorder Listed: Nov 2020 Lincoln has 3 sisters born in 2009, 2011, 2013 – all are in “a family-type children’s home.” These […]
In February of 2020 Amanda and Jerry were exploring the idea of adopting, this being Amanda’s lifelong dream to be an adoptive mother they felt they were finally at a point in their lives where this was possible. After having a home built with a growing family in mind, they moved towards finding the right […]
Girl, born 2018 Lumbar spina bifida with hydrocephalus Convergent concomitant strabismus Listed: June 2020
Douglas and Jena have been married for almost six years. Their first son joined their family from Eastern Europe through adoption just before Christmas 2019. When they brought him home, they said they would go back “in a few years.” However, much like when they saw their first son’s photo and story, they now feel […]
Boy, born 2017 PRC Down syndrome Quintin is an adorable and active little boy, born in September of 2017 with Down syndrome. In December of 2017, he was moved into a foster family. He quickly grew very attached to his foster uncle. When he see his foster uncle, he will ask him for hug and […]
We (Brion and Jenn) have been part of the adoption community for most of our lives. Brion’s family, including his father, aunts, and uncles, as well as niece and nephew were adopted. Before Jenn met Brion, she spent many years working with organizations that supported orphans and community health in Vietnam, China, Mexico, and Honduras. […]
Boy, born 2015 Unspecified mental disorder due to known physiological condition Expressive language disorder Disorder of central nervous system, unspecified
