Adoption Grant Update

There are many organizations that will award adoption grants to qualified families. Qualifications and amounts awarded vary based on the organization.

Earlier this year, we began working on and submitting grant applications to a couple of grant organizations. Of course, not everyone, not even all qualified families receive grants but we knew it wouldn't hurt to apply. Most of these organizations receive far more applications than they could ever award grants to.

We found out a month ago that we did not receive a grant from the first organization we applied to. But today we received a notification letter from the 2nd organization stating that we had been chosen to receive an adoption grant from them!

To say we are excited and grateful is an understatement--we are so overwhelmed with the outpouring of God's provision. Receiving this grant means that the agency fees are now completely covered--we had already raised a good amount of the agency fees and this grant is the last little bit needed to finish that off.

Our next phase in the process is to now work on saving to cover finalization fees. This includes attorney fees as well as possible birthmother expenses. These costs are a little harder to calculate as they can vary based on the situation. Based on what we have been told by the agency and the attorney we have chosen, we are estimating finalization expenses to be in the vicinity of $4,000-$5,000. We already have almost $1,000 saved towards these costs. The attorney fees won't be paid until we are finalizing the adoption of our child so we have a little time to work on this goal.

Again, we thank you all for your support through this process and ask for your continued prayers!