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FAQs about adoption
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Yes! You can review our online profiles of families who would like to adopt a child and learn all about their personalities and interests. If you decide to place your child for adoption, you’ll be able to meet with the adoptive families you like best.
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Ongoing relationships between birth parents and adoptive families are common and encouraged with an open adoption. The benefits of openness in adoption—for everyone involved—are well-documented. When you have ongoing contact, your child will know about you directly.
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You can decide whether to meet the adoptive family before your child is born. You can decide how much time you’d like to spend with your baby in the hospital and whether you want the adoptive family to be there. You also have the right to change the decisions you make.
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Yes. Our counselors will help you consider the best options for you and your baby.
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Tim and Jess
Hello, and thank you for taking the time to learn about us and our family. We are so grateful for your openness to consider us as a possible future for your child. Adoption has been on our hearts since our early marriage, and we are praying to grow our family after struggling with infertility. We live in a suburb of Southeastern Michigan with our daughter and 2 dogs, Elwood and Mira. They are wonderful companions for our daughter, but she is praying to be a big sister soon. We live in a safe, small community with the best neighbors and a park right next door! The schools are within walking distance and we have a library we love to visit close by. We have a backyard with a swing set and a garden that we try to grow new vegetables in each year. We attend church regularly and try to stay involved with events and volunteer opportunities there. Our church has a strong focus on service and the local community, and that is what we love about it! We enjoy going for walks, riding our bikes, fishing, family game nights, cooking together, and family movie nights snuggled up on the couch. Visits to see our extended family are a regular weekly activity for us, as we love for our daughter to spend time and play with her cousins and see her grandparents. A child growing up in our home would always know that they are heard, important, safe, and cared for. They will join our current family of 3 for nightly bedtime stories, cousin's birthday parties, and picnics at the park by our house. We look forward to creating arts and crafts with them and discovering new recipes in the kitchen! Please know that if you choose to place your child in our home, we will strive to love them deeply for exactly who they are, and to develop all the beautiful parts of their personality and spirit.
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Autumn and Zane
Hello and thank you for taking the time to look at our profile. We hope our personalities shine through and give you a glimpse into our life! We met in November of 2016 and quickly discovered that while our personalities might be opposites, we shared a deep connection on the things that truly matter—our faith, morals, and views of the world. Zane is quiet, calm, and a self-proclaimed nerd, while Autumn is talkative and outgoing. We’ve found that our differences perfectly balance us, keeping our lives fun and exciting! We got engaged on our one-year anniversary in November 2017 and were married on October 6, 2018. Our Life Together Our greatest joy is found in experiencing life together. We love to travel and explore new places, but we also cherish our time at home. You can often find us tackling home projects, whether it’s gardening or remodeling a room. Creating a peaceful and cozy environment in our home brings us so much happiness. We also love friendly competition with games, enjoy listening to music (even with our different tastes!), and were both self-taught on the guitar and drums. Weekends often involve getting creative with crafts like painting or making candles. We truly enjoy trying new things and sharing experiences, always learning and growing together.
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Johnathan and Laurel
Hello! Thank you for taking a look at our family as you consider the right decision for you and your child. After wrestling with infertility for several years, we are so excited to continue to grow our family through adoption. We had the wonderful opportunity to meet our first daughter, Evelyn, right after she was born in October of 2024. Shortly after, we formally adopted her in February of 2025. She has always been adventurous, curious, and full of life and energy. She's brave and daring and also a huge fan of showing love and care. Throughout our profile, we know we haven't shown very much of her face in our profile, a purposeful choice for protecting her, but hope we have also given some insight into our family world and her part in that. We pray that God will bless you on your journey as well. We wanted to give you a glimpse into our world - our relationships, our values, our home, and our hobbies. We hope that this will help you imagine what it could be like for you and your child to join our family.
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Aaron and Amanda
Thank you for taking the time to connect with us through our profile; we are very excited to share more about ourselves with you. In the years since our 2000 wedding, we have prayed that we would someday have the amazing opportunity to become parents. Adoption has always been something in our hearts and on our minds even throughout several years of unsuccessful fertility treatments. After seeing the joyous adoption path of others in our church and praying over the decision we are thrilled to be on our own unique journey.
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Nathan and Audreyanna
Dear Expectant Family, We know you must be processing a lot right now as you contemplate the best decisions for you, your family, and this growing baby. So, while we don’t know all that you are feeling as you imagine a future for both you and this child, we want to extend grace (whether you decide to parent or create an adoption plan) and we pray that you are able to find peace through support and community. We are Audreyanna and Nathan (and Rose!). We met in 2009, got married in 2014, and have been growing together ever since. Even before getting married, we had discussed growing our family through adoption in some way. Audreyanna’s family adopted her sister (now in her 20’s) and so adoption had been on Audreyanna’s heart from a young age. In 2023, Rose was born and placed with us. We've seen the benefit firsthand to an open-adoption and if you choose an adoption plan, we would be honored to live in relationship with you and your child. We truly mean that! It's been a joy to regularly spend time with Rose's birth family and in doing so, better understand Rose's story. We will continue to pray for you, and others, who are faced with making these tough decisions. You are loved, Audreyanna and Nathan
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Israel and Susie
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Hannah and Lucas
Dear birthparent(s), Our names are Lucas and Hannah, and we are so excited to be pursuing adoption to grow our family from two to three. There are not enough words to say “thank you” for your selfless, sacrificial love in making an adoption plan for your precious child. We are especially thankful for your consideration in allowing us to be a part of your journey! We have been blessed to be together for ten years now. We met online when we were 18 and quickly bonded over our love for Jesus, family, and all things outdoors. Two and a half years later, we got engaged, and later married on May 9 of 2020. Over the years, our relationship has only strengthened. By God’s grace, we’ve developed strong communication skills and unity, deeper roots in His Word, a wonderful community, and unshakeable joy and peace regardless of our circumstances. One of our dreams has always been to become parents. Before we even met, God placed it on both of our hearts that one day we would adopt. We never knew how or when, but after two years of infertility, it became clear; now is the time! So in 2025 we started the process. It was never a matter of if we would adopt, but when, and God has written this as the next page in our family’s story. We live in a beautiful beach town in West Michigan where we really take advantage of its amenities. Living just a few miles from town means we often walk, bike, or take our electric scooters to the beach, grab ice cream, or hike and play pickleball at one of the many parks near our home. We also have a small fishing boat we enjoy. We can’t wait to add children to these rhythms of our life! In addition to hiking and fishing, I (Lucas) also enjoy hunting and golfing. Hannah spends most of her down time running, reading, beaching, and organizing things around our house. Annual vacations are also something we enjoy, whether it be a restful weekend up north or a week exploring a new state or country. Even better is when these hobbies and vacations include our family and friends. While Hannah has spent the last 5 years working at our church, our goal when we have children is for Hannah to stay home while I (Lucas) continue working as an electrician – a field I’ve worked in for 10+ years and am thriving as an independent contractor. More than anything, we want to raise our children in a loving, God-centered home, and we believe the best way to do this is by being their primary caregivers. Not to mention we are just excited to spend a ton of time with our kids! We also plan to include our incredible support system in the lives of our children. We both have amazing parents, and have five siblings between the two of us (plus 5 in-laws, 1 nephew, and 2 nieces), and are well connected with our church family where we’ve established mentors and many friends who hold us accountable, pray with us in our struggles, and praise God for our wins. No matter what our family looks like or how it comes to be, our greatest goal in life is to glorify God. In all things, we strive to lead lives marked by the fruits of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self control. Our prayer is that our little ones would experience these fruits in their lives, too. Thank you for taking the time to hear some of our story. We are praying for you and hope to get to know you more soon! You are so loved! Sincerely, Lucas & Hannah Jeremiah 29:11 “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.”
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Justin and Kathleen
We are a couple whose journey to grow our family hasn’t looked the way we once imagined, but it has led us somewhere even more meaningful. After walking through the challenges of infertility, we discovered that while the path may be different, our dream of becoming parents has only grown stronger. Through every appointment, every hopeful moment, and every hard conversation, one thing has remained constant: our deep desire to love, nurture, and cherish a child with our whole hearts. Adoption is not our second choice, it is a beautiful and intentional calling. It is the way our story is meant to unfold. We have so much love ready to give, a home filled with warmth and laughter, and a life grounded in commitment, stability, and gratitude. The road here has shaped us into more patient, compassionate, and resilient people, and we know those qualities will guide us as parents. We promise a childhood full of bedtime stories, kitchen dance parties, scraped knees kissed better, and traditions that make ordinary days feel special. Most of all, we promise unconditional love that is steady, unwavering, and lifelong. We are ready to welcome a precious child into our arms and into a family where they will always know they were deeply wanted, thoughtfully chosen, and endlessly loved.
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Matthew and Jamie
Hello! As you are reading this, please know that we cannot imagine what you are going through right now. We have been praying for you and will continue to pray for you as we have committed to pray for anyone who may be reviewing our profile. We are thankful for you and your braveness in considering adoption as the loving path to take. As you go through your decision process, we hope that you will consider us to love your child unconditionally. We will raise your child in a loving and Godly home and he/she will know the huge sacrifice you made for them, and how much you love them.
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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.
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Tim and Amanda
We are so honored and grateful to you for taking the time to look through our profile. We cannot fully imagine the weight of the decisions you are making right now, but our deepest hope is that you feel deeply cared for, respected, and supported on this journey. As you read our story, we hope you can picture the life your child would experience with us—a life filled with warmth, laughter, and endless unconditional love. You will always be a part of your child and their story, and your immense love for them is something we will celebrate every single day. We strongly believe a child can never have too many people who love them, and we would welcome the opportunity to develop a relationship with you over the years, at whatever pace feels right to you. If you select us as the adoptive family for your child, please know that we will work endlessly to ensure they are raised with the consistency, devoted care, and unwavering support they need to flourish and thrive.
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Scott and Katie
Thank you for taking time to look through our profile. We hope you can get an idea of our life and who we are as people. This is a long and difficult process and we want you to be able to choose the best fit for you and your child. We promise to: - love your child unconditionally - support you and the type of relationship you wish to have with your child - spend summers outside by the pool, at parks, and on adventures - build snow forts and go sledding in the winter - learn and grow with your child, supporting their interests and needs - read bedtime stories with all the voices
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