We’re Adopting!
Our Adoption Story :
After a decade of adoption as a dream on our hearts, years of waiting to grow our family and many months of praying into our calling to adopt, God continues to unfold our beautiful story. We are overjoyed to share that we are adopting!
As we begin this journey to adopt our child, we can’t thank you enough for your love, prayers, support and financial giving that will impact our family and the life of our child more than you will ever know. In the past two years of waiting and praying through unexplained secondary infertility, we have seen the love and faithfulness of God wrap his arms around us through the gift of your love, prayers and support. And in all the waiting and wondering, when we didn’t know what God was doing, God knew exactly what he was doing. He was making a way and preparing our hearts for this story of adoption to unfold.
As God has written this child on our hearts, we are truly in awe of his goodness to plant that tiny seed of adoption in our hearts all those years ago. This has led us to trust and take hold of the best plans he has for our family now, in the call to adoption! After years of praying for the story that God was writing into our lives, we are confident that adoption is the story that he has been writing all along.
The Adoption Process :
As we are in the early stages of the adoption process, we have submitted our formal application to New Life Adoptions Agency to pursue infant domestic adoption through the state of Minnesota, and we are preparing our hearts and home to begin our home study! Upon being home study approved, we will become an active, waiting family and pray to be matched with our birth mom and bring our beautiful child home!
As part of the adoption process, we have started a crowdfunding campaign. It may surprise you to learn that adoption-related costs can easily total up to $50,000 or more. This is why we set a goal of $30,000 to help ease the financial burden that often overwhelms adoptive families. We believe that God has called us to the story of adoption, and we are confident that he will make a way!
As you consider contributing to our adoption story through prayer, support and financial giving, we hope you know that when you give, your money goes directly toward the betterment of this sweet life. The financial support we receive towards our adoption will cover all of the following fees in the adoption process: Formal Adoption Application, Program Services, Adoption Home Study, Birth Parent Services, Placement Services, Post-Placement Services, Interim Foster Care, Legal Services and more. If you would like to know more about the adoption process, we encourage you to visit www.https://newlifeadoptionsmn.org to answer any other questions you may have about our adoption and agency!
We have a few requests from you, our wonderful community, whom we couldn’t do this without!
- Would you pray with us? Pray that God would make a way for the adoption of our beautiful child and that they would come to know the love of God woven into their beautiful adoption story! Pray that God would give us strength for whatever comes our way while we wait to bring our child home. Pray for the mama that will make the brave and loving decision to choose life and place her child in our adoptive home. Pray for the safety, health and care of our birth mama and child. Pray that God would provide abundantly more than the necessary funds for our adoption story. Pray that God’s goodness and grace would be revealed through each step of the process and that our adoption story would give him all the glory!
- We are fundraising! Through a variety of fundraisers and grant applications, we are raising money to help ease the expenses of bringing our beautiful child home! If you feel called, you can donate through Adopt Together or Venmo. Otherwise, we would be so grateful if you would share this page so that we can get the news out about our adoption story!
https://adopttogether.org/families/the-murrays
We pray that by inviting you into our adoption process, you will see yourself as part of the beautiful community we hope to build around our child as they grow up. We’re trusting in God’s provision and more important than monetary contribution, we are abundantly blessed by your prayers – for our family, for our future birth mom and family, and our future child. We are hopeful for all that God has planned and excited to see how God opens doors and allows our story to continue – all to bring glory and honor to Him!
We are hopeful and excited to see God’s beautiful story of redemption unfold as we embark on this journey to bring our beloved chid home!
With Love, Nate, Claire & Liam Murray
To learn more about our heart for adoption, receive updates about where we are in the adoption process and come alongside us in prayer, support and/or financial giving, join our Adoption Email List!
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