The Butler Family

We're the Butler Bunch and we're pursing a precious little boy with Down Syndrome from Macedonia!

We've been married 9 years and have an 8 year old daughter and a 6 and 5 year old son. Our youngest also has Down Syndrome, so we have amble experience with special needs.

We are a Pilot Family for a new International Adoption Program which would open the doors for many other children with special needs to be adopted into forever families!

We are so grateful for this unique opportunity and look forward to adding another special blessing into our family!

We are so appreciative of your prayers and encouragement! 

Meet Ladybug's family

Chris and Kami of Colorado always talked of adopting "one day," and God showed them they had no reason to wait! They have two daughters and are so excited to add a third. Their little Ladybug lives in an orphanage in Eastern Europe, and they hope to travel to meet her very soon. They've worked hard to make it to this point in the adoption process; and although much waiting remains, they know they're closing in on the finish line! They can't wait to make Ladybug a forever part of their family! 

Meet the Karrick Family

Hello, We are the Karrick Family we live in Georgia.  We are: Steve, Ginger (Dad and Mom) Alicia, Joseph, Maria, Kimmie, Libbie and Opal.  Ginger and I have three biological children and three Adopted children, all from China.  We are all ready to welcome sweet Mariella into our home.   

This past November the Lord showed us our sweet Mariella.  She is medically fragile (not able to swallow) and non-verbal.  Mariella must receive medical intervention soon!  Her medical condition in China is “undiagnosed”.  We are praying that we will be in China at the end of April to bring her home.

Meet The Reed Family

We are the Reed Family and we have been abundantly blessed with 10 precious children, four born to us,  five through the miracle of adoption, and one sweet Princess who waits for us in heaven (our sweet Sophia passed away just 6 days before we were to travel to China for her and her brother, Joel, last February)!   We are in the process of adopting two precious little girls…Talia who just turned three and Caitlyn who just turned two!  We had hoped to bring Talia home along with our son Joel last Feb./March, but due to some issues with adoption paperwork in Talia’s Province, her adoption file could not be completed in time.  We are so very thankful that NOW is the time to bring our sweet girl home and that we will be able to travel for her this spring!  Caitlyn, who has Down Syndrome like our daughters Mikayla and Khloe,  came to us as quite a surprise when our agency received her file right before Christmas and thought our family would make a perfect match!  We are so excited that Talia and Caitlyn will have each other to play with and the two of them will certainly keep us on our toes!  It’s been a very long wait with lots of ups and downs, but we are so happy that travel to Talia and Caitlyn is finally just a couple of months away!  We can’t wait to have both of our precious daughters in our arms!  

Meet the Graham Family

"Adoption is not the call to have a perfect, rosy family. It is the call to show mercy, love, and patience." -Anonymous

And so we begin the journey to adopt a six year old girl with hearing loss from Poland! :)

For those of you who don't know us, we have been blessed with four biological children and we can honestly say that we never saw adoption in our future.  However, the Lord showed us otherwise when we viewed a photo of a bright-eyed, sweet-smiling girl in a pink skirt and purple tights!

We are working hard to save what we can and fundraise the $40,000 it will take to bring this sweet little girl home. 

We thank you immensely for assisting us through this adoption process. We know the Lord will accomplish what He has started and we look forward to the adventure ahead!

Colfack Family

We are the Colfack's Rex and Melissa we have been married 19 years and have three wonderful biological children.  While we thought we were done adding to our family, God had great plans for us and is taking us on a journey that we could never have imagined!    In October 2013 we received our email for that years Angel Tree and could not wait to choose our child to donate to. The moment we saw her picture we knew she was meant to be part of our family!!  The journey has been far from easy, but totally worth every bit of struggle we have faced. We are all beyond excited and feel so blessed "Susan" will soon be part of our family!!

Meet the Royaards Family

When Eric and I met just 9 short years ago, we never could have imagined the places we would go or the things that we would do together! After our first adoption in 2011, we knew that we would adopt again but we thought it would be way later down the road. However, the Lord had other plans in mind and as soon as we saw 'Astor's' picture and profile, we knew that we could be starting another adoption journey must sooner than we expected! Our entire family is thrilled about our son/brother coming home this year. We are so thankful for the support of our friends, family, RR family and 5/5/5 for Families!! 

Meet the Vantrease Family.

We are the Vantrease family.   Mike and I married in December 1985.  As I am adopted as well as my dad, Mike and I always knew that we too would adopt.  It wasn’t until 1998 that we began the adoption process bringing our first daughter home from China at the age of 12 months December 2000.  Shortly after bringing her home, we found our second daughter Maggie on a list of children with special needs.   Maggie was listed as having a repaired cleft lip unrepaired cleft palate. We began the paper chase and traveled in February 2003 to bring her home at the age of 20 months.   I began advocating for some of the children on the lists and one little boy really pulled at my heart.  He was being overlooked and I tried to get the word out about this little guy.  The more I talked about him, the more I became aware that maybe God’s plan was that this little boy be our son.  So after much prayer, we knew that this was His will and we began the adoption journey again, this time for a little boy, 3 years old, with a club radial hand.  We traveled in February of 2006 to bring him home.  As I’ve always had an open heart for the orphan, I knew my heart would remain open to God’s call.  In 2010, I saw a picture a little girl on Rainbow Kid’s.   For some time I had been thinking about adopting an older child.  This little girl really spoke to my heart but her need seemed to be really significant.   At the time of adoption, this sweet girl would be 12 years old.  After once again talking it over with my husband and praying over her need (cp) and medical care, we moved forward to bring her home.  She’s thriving in the home and in school.  She had very little schooling and is now mainstreaming into regular classes and in the 8th grade.  God is good!

As we are getting close to bringing our second son home, Keegan on Reeces Rainbow, but will be known as Ian Michael, I never imagined I could adopt a child with such a severe need.   When I first saw his picture I really had a hard time looking at him as all I could see was the pain he had endured.  But that was it, he HAD endured.  And what a precious one he is in God’s sight.  So after talking it over again with my sweet husband, we decided to move forward to bring our little guy home, 5 years old.  We’re hoping for a March 30th gotcha day.  We’re so excited to see what God has in store for us and Ian Michael, trusting in His plan.  And we can’t wait to get our little guy home.  

More families home.

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Families!!!

This little guy is now oth his family. He will be home soon because of donors like you! His family was once a 5/5/5 family. See what $5 can do?  

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Meet The Foerch Family

Chad and Erin Foerch live in SE Iowa with their four children. They are adding two beautiful 5 year old girls from China to their family. They plan to travel sometime in March of 2015 and bring their girls home. They have grown to love their new daughters and they can't wait to make them an official part of their family!

Meet The Lanz Family

After discovering the close connection between their youngest two girls and a nine year old boy they met while he was being hosted in the States, the Lanz family started the China process all over again - one last time. Home in May of 2013 with Abigail and Jen, and in April of 2014 with Isaac, they had no intention of returning again so soon – if ever! But Abigail, Jen and Patrick grew up together from 2006 when they were babies, until the girls were adopted in 2013. It was obvious they had a bond, and the rest of the family fell head over heals in love with him too! Even though still “broke” from the other three adoptions, they decided that money was not a valid reason to have to leave Pat in the orphanage. God has been so faithful to their step of faith and they only need about $12,000 more to have this adoption totally funded. The Lanz family received LOA in late December, and hope to travel in March to bring Pat home.

Meet the Thew Family

On the other side of the world, two unbelievably precious children are wondering if they will ever truly have a family to call their own. What they don't know is that we are coming to bring them home very soon! Saying yes to making Ezra our treasured son and Eden our cherished daughter was the easy part. Why wouldn't we? We have been working fervently to raise the remaining funds necessary to complete their adoption. Without the help of so many people supporting us and loving our new children home, this simply wouldn't be possible. But we're almost there. It takes a village, and we are so thankful for ours.

We are the Thew Family. :) I am a stay at home mom and my husband is a United States Marine. :) We have 4 children and are adopting 2 more from China! We are so excited to meet Ezra (Boy- age 2) and Eden (girl- age 6)! Thank you for being part of our “village!” 

Meet the Collier Family

Marc and Becky met in 2003 and were married in 2005. God blessed them with Will in 2008 and Michael in 2010. In 2012, God allowed the Colliers to walk a difficult journey with their oldest, Will, and he was eventualy diagnosed with Tourette's Syndrome. Through that journey, God showed the Colliers that they were living for themselves. With broken hearts, they surrendered to His Will. Big changes were in store; they moved to a new state, Becky gave up her career to stay home, and the boys started school. Through it all, they grew in their relationships with Christ and became connected with a local body of Christ. As they "settled in" to their new lives, both Marc and Becky felt unsettled in their hearts: God began to call them both to consider adoption. Their plan: Domestic, healthy adoption of one to two children younger than their own. God changed all of that a year ago when Marc and Becky, through the Nolan adoption joirney, were introduced to Nadia and Nancy on Reece's Rainbow. Nadia and Nancy are twins born in 2007 diagnosed with fetal alcohol syndrome, pyramidal insufficiency in legs, crossed eyes, and mental delay. Five months of struggle followed, until at last, Marc and Becky surrendered to the Will of God and committed to adopt the beautiful set of twins. Since May, both Marc and Becky have been filled with an incredible sense of peace and joy despite the difficult challenges of international adoption. They and the boys pray daily for the sisters, dubbed affectionately "Sissy and Sassy," and they anticipate the day when their family will be complete. James 1:27 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.