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Francesco and Rossella

We are both from Southern Italy, Francesco from Puglia and Rossella from Basilicata. We met during our college years, while Francesco was studying Agriculture and Rossella Chemistry. We started dating and we felt at home with each other. After getting married, we lived for three years in Bari, a city along the Adriatic Coast where many of our friends lived. After our first year of marriage, we discovered that having children would be difficult for us and Francesco asked Rossella: "All this love that we have and want to give where will it finally go?" This deep question became crucial for us. We were both working at the University when Francesco received a job offering from a University in Florida. We decided to move to the USA without imagining what was awaiting us, and a beautiful adventure began. We lived for three years in Florida where Francesco worked as a horticulture research scientist and Rossella as an elementary and middle school Montessori teacher. Then we moved again when Francesco became a professor in Central Pennsylvania and Rossella started working as a secondary school teacher. We are very grateful for these years of marriage in which we had a very rich life and met many friends from all around the world. Among them, we encountered some families that had welcomed children through adoption, and looking at their experience full of love, we started thinking about adopting. Francesco's question, "All this love that we have and want to give where will go in the end?" became a prophecy and a foretelling of our desire to adopt a child.

Gregory and Amanda

Hi! We are Greg and Amanda. We are humbled by your bravery to consider this selfless decision. We understand this may be a difficult season of your life and can imagine it has not been easy to reach this decision. Please know that we have prayed for you in this journey. We have prayed that you have been brought peace in this decision and that you feel loved and known. We have also prayed for the little life growing inside you. Thank you for considering us as parents. We welcomed our oldest daughter, Reagan, in 2016. She was the first grandchild on either side of our families. Our son, Jalen, joined our family in 2018 through adoption. Our youngest daughter, Skylar, joined our family through adoption, as well, in 2022. Our decision to adopt has always been a part of our family plan, and has only increased with Jalen and Skylar joining our family. We cannot promise to be perfect parents to your child - there is no such set of parents! However, we promise to love your baby just as Christ has loved us: unconditionally.

Aaron and Mary

We are Aaron and Mary, and our kids' names are Lyla and Rex. Aaron is an Assistant Technical Director at our church and has been there since 2006, and Mary is an Assistant Director at a childcare center and she has been there since 2005. Mary was diagnosed at 19 with severe endometriosis and was not expected to easily become pregnant, therefore both Rex and Lyla were miracles as they were both conceived naturally and easily. We are so grateful that God gave us 2 amazing kids before Mary had to have her hysterectomy. Rex is 9 and loves karate, board games, video games, playing outside with friends and reading. Lyla is 6 and loves soccer, soccer, tea parties, babies, and playing outside with friends! We have had a heart for adoption for many years and decided as a family this year to start the process. Lyla and Rex talk often of their future younger sibling and they cannot wait to help care for them, and we pray for our future child and for their birth parents every day. One of our nephews, Gabriel, is adopted and is very excited about having an adopted cousin one day. Gabriel and his adoption story are a big part of what made us fall in love with the idea of adopting ourselves. We know that while it will bring us great joy to bring another child into our family in this way, there will be heartbreak and loss for their birth parents and we hope to keep that connection open so that their birth parent knows how they are doing and growing as the years go on, and so that they can know about where and who they came from as well. We hope that as you look through our profile it will give you a glimpse into our family and how much we love each other, our families, our friends, and our future child.

Jeffrey and Donna

Erik and Bethann

Hello! We are Erik, Bethann, and Lydia. We (Bethann and Erik) met when we were 11 years old, and got married in 2003. We were blessed to be able to adopt our 4 year old daughter Lydia in 2018. She is a loving, fun, and energetic child who loves babies and will be a great big sister. There is a lot of fun and laughter in our home. We are excited to welcome another child into our family.

Don and Sarah

We promise to love, cherish, and adore your child. Your child will grow up knowing that there will always be a family there to guide and direct, answer questions, and be supportive when bumps come in life. Your child will be supported throughout their lifetime. We are looking forward to seeing how God brings another chapter to our lives through meeting you and hearing your story. You are stronger than you know!

Jim and Shana

Hello, we are Jimmy and Shana and thank you for stopping by to read our profile! We are very excited to meet you even through this letter. We want you to know that we respect all your decisions that you make and support you without even knowing you. It takes a village to raise a child and we are all living in this village together! We hope that learning about us puts you at ease that perhaps your child will have a wonderful village to raise them with you alongside. We understand that this is a difficult decision but perhaps knowing more about us will ease you just a little bit in such a difficult decision. We hope that you will continue to read on to learn about us.

Matthew and Natalie

As devoted Christians, Natalie and I feel prepared and called by God to adopt. We are happy parents to three biological children and have always wanted a large family. We are actively engaged in church, school, and hobbies. I (Matthew) am a retired US Army Officer, now Youth Pastor and I enjoy woodworking, camping, mountain biking, and weight lifting. Natalie is a Stay at Home Mom / Home School Teacher and enjoys spending time together as a family, watching movies, and hiking and camping. Our daughter Emma (12 years old) enjoys playing with friends, attending youth group, and church activities. Our son Edward (6 years old) enjoys reading books, playing with super heroes and playing with his friends and big sister. Our son Elias (1 year) is a sweet, funny little guy who has his big sister wrapped around his finger and loves to make big brother laugh. We've been fortunate enough to travel quite a bit and have visited several national parks, over 25 states and swam in two oceans.

Garth and Jennifer

Hello! We are Jennifer and Garth. Thank you for taking time to look through our profile. We can't imagine what you are going through as you consider an adoption plan for your baby. We realize this will be one of the most difficult decisions and our hope in reviewing our profile page it will help you understand our life as a family and us as parents. We always knew we wanted a big family and the journey of doing so hasn't been easy. However, we realized God's plan is always working and you have to continue having faith and hope. That faith and hope brought us to welcome our daughter into our family through adoption, which has been the biggest blessing in our lives so far. We hope to continue growing our family through adoption and to show our children support, encouragement, celebrations of milestones and achievements, encouragement with smiles, hugs and laughter, encouragement for them to be their true selves, the ability to build their confidence and most of all LOVE.

Justin and Jodi

Hello! Thank you for taking time to look at a snapshot of our life. We are so excited to share our lives and love with our child. Our hearts are overflowing and we just can't wait to surround our child with so much love and support. We will do everything possible to make sure your child has the best possible life and provide them with whatever support they need. We are comfortable with you being a part of their life as much as you feel comfortable with. Without you, our dream of becoming a family would not be possible. After years of discussions, leaning on family and friends, research, medical treatments for infertility, and so much more, it has become overwhelmingly obvious adoption is meant to be for our family. We are just overjoyed to see God's plan in adoption begin to work in our lives.

Esteban and Melissa

Hello and hola! Thank you, dear one(s), for stopping by our page! We can't tell you how much we admire your selflessness and hope you find great peace in the hard decisions you are facing. You are in our thoughts and prayers, and whether God unites our families or not, we hope you can feel the compassion and respect we have for you. We have always known that adoption would shape our family, we even discussed it before we were married. In August 2019, we were so blessed to be chosen as parents for our son Diego. Becoming a parent through adoption is such an incredibly humbling honor. We have seen how hard, beautiful, and bittersweet it is, and are prayerfully waiting to see how God will bring strangers together to form another sacred relationship. We would love another open, on-going relationship with our child’s birth mother (and birth family), and desire that such openness will help our child to grow up confident in the love that fills their adoption story and will give comfort to the precious woman or couple that chooses us to be parents.