Dear Birth Parent,
We know this is probably a difficult time for you right now. You are making such a loving and selfless decision as you decide to place your child for adoption. We pray that you will be given the wisdom and guidance to make the best decision for you and your child. We would just like to take a few moments to tell you a little about how we met and what led us to our decision to adopt.
Like many people this day and age, we met through an online dating site. Since our faith is important to us it just made sense for that site to be ChristianMingle.com. After exchanging a “smile” and a couple of messages, we agreed to meet for lunch after church at Panera Bread. Cupid must have shot us with an arrow because we had an instant connection.
Three short months later we were engaged. Five month after that we were married! We have been happily married for three and half years now. God brought us together online and we found our agency online, so we thought it would be symbolic to say we met our child online too!
After our first year of marriage, we tried to have children of our own and found we were having trouble. We decided to seek assistance from a fertility doctor but ultimately decided risks to Tiffany’s health were too high. After many discussions and lots of prayers, we felt God calling us to adopt a child. We have so much love to give and can’t wait to be parents!
Our Christian faith is very important to us. We go to church and are actively involved in a small study group that meets every week. Most of our close friends are Christians and we really enjoy getting together frequently to play board games and hang out. We feel it is very important to raise the child we adopt with strong beliefs.
We have a wonderful family. Tiffany’s mom will be very involved with the child we adopt. Her name is Joy and she lives up to her name. She is so very excited about being a grandma! Joy will be happy to babysit and spoil our child at every opportunity. Tiffany also has a brother, several cousins, aunts, and uncles that all live within twenty miles from us. We get together regularly for family dinners and play games. We especially look forward to spending time together around the holidays. Tiffany’s brother and his wife as well as a cousin are also pregnant and expecting. Therefore, our child will have cousins around the same age to play with!
Brian’s family lives over 2,000 miles away on the west coast. We try to get together as often as possible, but usually only have the opportunity once every other year. Our interaction includes phone calls and exchanging messages over Facebook.
Outside of our family, we have a close group of friends which we spend quite a bit of time with. We get together on a regular basis with them and their children. We feel community is very important especially when raising children.
In closing, we dream about the day we will be selected to be adoptive parents. We pray every day God will grant us that gift. Thank you for taking the time to read our profile and getting to know us. We hope you will grant us the opportunity to get to know you and grant us the gift of caring for your child. Also, know that we would love to share e-mails and photos of the child with you through the first year and discuss a plan going forward. Know that you and the child you carry are in our prayers. We pray for you as you make this decision.
God’s Blessings Upon You,
Brian & Tiffany
