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Drew and Sarah

We can’t tell you how much it means that you might consider our family to love your baby forever. It’s hard to put into words and pictures how hopeful we are to complete our family through adoption. Our daughter, Emma Kate, is now almost 4 ½ and so excited to someday be a big sister. During the week I (Sarah) am home with Emma Kate. We’re usually busy with trips to the library, local parks, and play dates with friends. We are so excited to have another little one join us along in our daily adventures! Drew is awesome at the daddy-daughter dates that include bike riding, hiking, and even putting on some rain boots to splash in puddles. Like all families, we are not perfect, but we promise that as a family we love lots, play hard, forgive, laugh, cry, and learn together. We can’t wait to have another sweet one to love and include in the things our family loves most. Family means so much to us and it is the hope of our hearts that Emma Kate would have a sibling to grow up with. We adopted our daughter through domestic infant adoption in 2018. We have an open adoption with her parents and to this day share photos and updates. It would mean so much to us if we had the opportunity to do the same with you. It is very important to us that we talk openly with our children about adoption and that they know the love and sacrifice both of you have made. It would be such an honor to welcome this sweet baby into our family, provide for them, meet their needs, love them forever, and walk with you in this adoption process. No matter what happens, we’re praying for you and your entire family.

Dan and Stephanie

From our early days of dating and marriage, adoption has always been on our minds and hearts. We have always loved children, pouring into them and seeing them grow and flourish. Should you choose us to be your adoptive family, we would love to have as much of an open relationship with you, the birth dad and both your families as you are comfortable with. We believe staying connected and forging those relationships is best for a child's development overall. Should we be entrusted with a child who comes from a different culture or ethnicity from us, we would make sure this little one is able to see their skin color around them, from books to playmates to posters hanging on their walls. We desire to raise our children in a home that honors all the skin colors God designed in humanity and the rich history and heritage He has given us in each other. We live in a great neighborhood within walking distance to our elementary school, nearby parks and family a few blocks away. We love getting to spend time with family, near or far, and time with friends and their children. We are actively part of our local church (where Dan is one of the pastors) and look forward to raising our child to learn about God's love for them. Ultimately our desire is to love and parent a child so they can grow to be all God made them to be.

Johnny and Leigha

Brian and Patti

Hello! We are Brian and Patti. Thank you so much for taking the time to learn a little bit more about us. Our story starts out in September of 1991. We were ring bearer and flower girl together in a wedding, at just five years old. Little did we know that 19 years later, we would walk the same aisle in the same church as husband and wife! We dated for almost a year and a half before we got married, but Patti had her eye on the cute farmer with dimples for much longer than that! We have now been married for almost 10 years and still love spending time together.

Nathan and Audreyanna

Hi! We are Nathan and Audreyanna. We met in 2009, got married in 2014, and have been growing together ever since. Since we've been together, we've wanted adoption to be part of our family's story. Ever since welcoming a sister into her family through adoption, Audreyanna has felt God calling her to adopt. She brought that passion into our life together and we are thrilled to begin this journey now.

Brent and Nicole

Dear expectant parents, Thank you for taking the time to get to know us better through this profile. We can’t imagine the difficult decisions you have made to get to this point. We are so grateful that you are considering adoption. Adoption has been in our hearts for a while. We have spent time going to doctors to try and find out why we couldn’t conceive. When God closed that door, He opened wide the door for adoption. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for giving couples like us the opportunity to have a family that we have been praying for. We hope this book will give you a view into our lives to see if we might be a good fit for you and your precious child. Our promise: We promise to love your child unconditionally. We will raise him/her with the Christian values, respect and compassion that we were raised with. Your child will grow up knowing how much you love them and the amazing sacrifice that you made. We promise to raise your child to know the immense love that God has for them. Thank you for taking the time to get to know us. May God bless and direct you through the decisions that you are having to make.

Ryan and Kasey

Dear Birth Mother, Thank you for taking a few moments to get to know our family, and thank you for giving your child the opportunity to live her/his best life. We are Ryan and Kasey. We live in northern Michigan with our two children, Khloe Kay 8 and Tatum (Tate) Alan 4. We have been together for 12 years, 9 years of marriage. We were high school sweethearts. Our marriage has been far from easy, we have been through everything from family deaths to miscarriages. But we have made it through all of the tough times because we know we can lean on each other and we also have God. We are both professing members of our church, and that gives us all the strength we need. We both have always wanted a large family. Our two children are both miracles, as Kasey was told she would never be about to birth her own child. Khloe is our smart tender-hearted, sweet little girl. She is very competitive, she plays soccer, softball, soon basketball and also races snowmobiles. Tate is our spunky, caring and very active little boy. He loves spending his time outside riding four wheelers and snowmobiles, and playing anything with a ball. As a family we do everything together. We really enjoy being outside. A good portion of the year you can find us on our side by side. In the summer we love camping, kayaking, fishing and playing outside. In the fall we hunt, and in the winter we all snowmobile. I, Ryan, am a road construction foreman. I Work all over the state in the summer building and repairing roads for my families company. It is the only job I’ve ever had and ever want to have. I attended Western Michigan University and Ferris State University. In my spare time I enjoy hunting and fishing and fixing things in my pole barn. Kasey works for the school our kids go to as a Paraprofessional. She works part time so she can be home with Tate part time. She also has a passion for coaching. She coaches Volleyball and Softball at the high school level. She is very involve in our church as a youth leader among many other things. We love the area and community we live in, everyone is close, including our families. Both of our extended families all live within a 15 mile radius. That allows for our children to have lots of friends/cousins to grow up with. Living in such a small community means everyone knows everybody and someone is always there to help and pick you up. Thanks again for taking the time to get to know us a little. We hope that no matter who you choose, you feel supported, encouraged and loved. We know that your one desire is that you find parents that you imagined for your baby. With us, I can promise you that your baby will be loved by not only us, but by our family and friends, he or she will be supported in everything they do and he or she will be pushed to follow their dreams. With Love , Ryan and Kasey

Sam and Kelly

We're grateful that you have decided to take the time to get to know us and consider us as you make a very significant decision for your baby. We won't pretend to understand what you are going through, all the feelings and decisions you're faced with as you decide what is best for you and your child. But we know it takes great love for your baby and courage to seek out support. So we pray that you are surrounded by a community that is supporting, advising, and providing for you at this time. We are hopeful to become parents, fulfilling a deep heart's desire for both of us! We too come into this process with a lot of emotions. But it's love and courage that also carries us as we hope to grow our family. As we planned our future together, starting a family was at the top of our decisions. We've experienced so much joy being an aunt and uncle and loving our friends' kids, so we felt excited about having a child of our own. Shortly after our wedding, we discovered that having a biological child would require fertility treatments. Instead of going through these treatments, we decided to pursue adoption. We have always believed adoption to be a powerful way to grow a family. We've had family and friends who adopted share how it has made their lives richer. While we grieved not being able to have a biological child, we knew we had so much love to give to a child. Adoption is a way for us to not only love a child but also to be a supportive community to birth parents.

Daniel and Monica

We are excited to follow God's path that He has laid out for us. Dan was adopted through Bethany Christian Services and knew that one day he would be called to Bethany to continue his adoption story. Together, we are ready to embrace this journey and see what God has planned for us.

James and Alyssa

Thank you for taking time to look at our online profile. Our names are Alyssa and James and we hope this profile gives you a brief snapshot into our family so you can make an informed decision for you and the precious life you are carrying. We hope that you are blessed with stability and good health through your journey. This is our second time going through the adoption process. We adopted our son Noah in the fall of 2015. We are excited to expand our family and he is very excited to become a big brother. As you look at our profile we hope that our love and commitment to family shines.

Kelly and Kara

Dear friend, Thank you so much for taking the time to learn about us. We wish we could sit down with a cup of coffee and hear more about you, too! We are praying for you in this season of your life, and would be honored to be a part of it through an adoption journey with you. Through our entire relationship, we have talked about and prayed about adopting a child into our family. We started the adoption process in 2018 after struggling with infertility, but then were surprised with the birth of our son in 2019. Through the complications that happened with the pregnancy and his birth, the passion for adoption grew even stronger, and we are thrilled to be pursuing it again now and to give our son a sibling through this process. We look forward to the days when we can tell our children about how God wrote the story of our family. We hope that in learning more about us here, you can see the love that our family shares and our hope to add to our family. Our hearts, home, and family are ready! Thank you for taking the time to get to know us.