Our Story

Just over five years ago, I was blessed to marry the love of my life.  She is far better than I deserve and I still wonder how I got so lucky and if she will ever realize how much she got ripped off!  I Thank God for her and I cannot wait to see where God leads our lives in the many years to come.

I wanted to share a little more about our journey to adoption so that through our story, others may find strength. Over four years ago, Caitlin and I decided to start trying to begin having a family.  We quickly began to realize things weren't exactly right.  We sought medical advice and prayed a lot.  Finally, months later, we found out we were pregnant.  We were beyond excited!  We were even far enough along to get to see the baby and watch and hear the heartbeat.  We shared with our families and they were so happy.  Then a few weeks later, we knew something was wrong and immediately went in to the doctor where we were told we had lost the baby. Devastation didn't begin to express how we felt.  

We then began the life-long journey of healing.  

We will always mourn the loss of our first child, but we seek joy in the trial (James 1:2-4).  I have found the experience to be helpful in ministry.  I (and Caitlin) have been able to relate to people with similar struggles on a level that others simply cannot. We also realize there are so many others who have suffered similar losses and ours is no worse than those. We want to share our story to help shake the stigma of shame that miscarriage seems to carry along with it.

Revelation 12:11a says, “And they overcame him (Satan) because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony.”

My prayer is that our testimony will help others; that through our struggle and journey of faith, others will gain faith as well.  I pray that God uses us to help others for years to come.

After the loss, we sought fertility specialists and tried hormone treatments for months with no results.  After much prayer, Caitlin and I felt that we needed to stop the treatments and just give it to God.  We have not been able to get pregnant since the miscarriage, but we have faith that God is in control and will bless us in His time.  

We had always discussed adoption, but until last year, we were never both ready at the same time.  Then, suddenly, in December of 2014, God convicted us both and we just knew it was the right time and we began the adoption process.  We haven't given up on having biological children, but that is all up to God and His perfect timing.  We are called now to adopt and we are so thankful that God has called us to do so.

Of course, for those of you familiar with adoption at all already know this, but our biggest obstacle is the financial hurdle ahead.  We will share more about that soon.  Until then, please pray specifically for the health of our future children, health of the birth mother, and finances.  Thank you so much!

God Bless,

Jason