About Us

Since I jumped into the blog process head first, we need to go back and give you some information about us. I teach English and Journalism, and I coach freshman basketball and pole vault at a local high school. I lead the basketball ministry for our church, which is not much more than a bunch of guys using the church's gym to attempt to make plays that they never could have made when they were in shape. I am also attending Seminary where I hope to keep my head above the water for as long as possible. Amory is an assistant manager for a local bank. She is involved in the women's ministry and other groups throughout the church. Both of us enjoy reading, though we cannot stand the books the other chooses. We watch movies often, but I think that is mainly my doing, and we love spending time with our friends and family. Yes, I am sucking up to all of you who were invited to join the blog. We have three dogs and one cat. We feel like we have been truly blessed, and we are excited to see what God has in store for us next.

By the way, today we got an email verifying that we will be getting into the adoption process with a webinar next week. It is funny how our hearts skip a beat every time any little thing happens with this process.

Following God

Amory and I spent the last year and a half trying to conceive a child. Over a year of that time was spent with an infertility specialist. Amory has always had a big heart for adoption while I was not so excited about the idea at first. As time went by over the last year my heart has completely changed. We believe that God has laid down a path for us that we want to follow. I can honestly say that I am quite possibly more excited about adoption than I was about having a biological child. We just know that God has a child for us to love and raise up in a Christian home, and we are truly excited about the possibilities for the future.

I guess this is as good a time as any to explain our desire to adopt from Ethiopia. It all started with our wonderful cousin Sara, who is absolutely the sweetest person you could ever meet. Sara, who is a registered nurse, felt led to go into missions a few years back. She ended up doing just that when she accepted an offer to work in Addis Ababa with patients dealing with HIV. We customarily got updates on how she was doing. Throughout this time our hearts grew for the children of Ethiopia. Interestingly, Sara was staying with a lady who headed up the care center for an adoption agency in the country. Over this past year, we have started frequently visiting the agency's web site and looking at blogs of families who are going through the process. We decided that certain doors were being closed, but with that new possibilies were opening up to us as well. With that we began the adoption process by filling out the pre-application for adoption last week. We decided that we wanted to create a blog for our family and friends, as well as ourselves. I hope that this blog can be a source of hope, a witness to the glory of God, and a working journal of the memories we are creating as we follow the road to Ethiopian Adoption that God has laid down before us.

Bryan