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Christian Homes And Special Kids |
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Birth Parent's Line 1-800-266-9837 Contact CHASK 208-267-6246 |
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For Birth Parents
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We are a devotedly Catholic Christian family of 5 living in a suburban home in Maryland. I am a stay at home mom, who homeschools our 3 children, ages 7, 11, and 13. My husband has a good stable job working as a government consultant. We have been certified adoptive foster parents in the state of Maryland for almost 2 years. We have fostered newborns with drug exposure and neglect, as well as a 4-year old with attachment disorder. However, it is our desire to provide a permanent home. We became foster parents because of our desire to provide a home for a special needs child. However, we have started looking outside of the foster system, because it is truly our desire to provide a permanent home, and all of our placements have been temporary. I have a Ph. D. in a medical science field, and this has helped me to research and find current information, therapies, and clinical studies both for my eldest son who has autism, and my husband 4 years ago when he had lymphoma. Both are doing very well now and benefited both from the therapies and treatments, as well as our access to world class medical care in the Washington DC and Baltimore metro area. We are actively involved in our church, scouts, and home school community. We hope that you will consider our family for an infant placement of one of your special angels. We are Catholic Christians who believe strongly in life and actively try to live our faith. We attend mass regularly, including daily mass during the week as part of our home school curriculum. My sons are both altar servers, and my daughter sings in the choir and at daily mass. My husband teaches in the RCIA (Rites of Christian Initiation for Adults) class as well as in Bible study classes for adults. I am active in our church hospitality group, women of prayer group, and I organize our church's preschool Vacation Bible School program. We are homeschooling our children so that they can learn about Christ's love and God's works as part of their education. We are actively involved in a Christian co-op, and other Christian home school activities. I teach science at our co-op, and try and help the children see the wonder of God's creation and how the order of our world denotes God's presence and wisdom. We believe strongly in Jesus Christ and his love for us. We regularly attend church, are active in our Parish family, attend a Christian home school co-op, and try and live our faith and follow Christ's teachings, by volunteering at our church, providing homes for children in foster care, helping with the homeless, attending missions trips to impoverished areas with our church, helping friends and neighbors in their time of need, and evangelizing both through example and sharing Christ's love with others. We believe that actions speak louder than words, and so we have tried to spread the word about the Joy of Christ through our life choices and our actions, rather than preaching.
Our Desire to Adopt… We have come to strongly believe throughout our faith journey that all life is precious and should be seen as the beautiful creation of God. We pray regularly that mothers will choose life over abortion, and have felt for the past few years that God has been calling us to take a more active role by providing a home for a child that might not otherwise have one. We initially tried to follow this path by becoming foster parents, but we have come to feel that it is better for our family if we could provide a permanent loving home, rather than a temporary one. Our oldest son is special needs with autism, and required extensive therapy and dietary modifications in his early life and intermittent therapy since that time. Watching him grow has been such a joy, and he has excelled beyond our wildest expectations. We welcome the opportunity to be a part of another one of God's special children. Dear expectant mother, I am so thankful that you have chosen life for your child. I think your decision to lovingly carry this child to term and find them a Christian forever family is one of the most unselfish gifts that a person can give to a child. I admire your courage in choosing to do what is right for your child, in spite of the pain and heartache that it might cause in saying good-bye. You are truly following God's path, and I hope that you will be able to find a placement for your child that will bring you the peace of Christ. We are a devotedly Christian family, with 3 children ages 7, 11 and 13. I am a stay at home mom, and I home school our children to meet their individualized needs and to teach them about God's love and his creation. My husband has a stable job that allows us to live comfortably and for me to stay home with our children, something I have felt God has called me to do. We have been wanting to add to our family through a special needs adoption for over 3 years. During that time, since completing our training and certification, we have provided temporary homes for infants and preschoolers with various special needs. However, we have never been given the opportunity to provide a permanent home for any of these children, as they have all gone to live with relatives. We continue to pray that God will show us the special angel intended for our family, and I believe that your child may be the answer to our prayers. We have a warm and loving family, a comfortable home in a neighborhood filled with children. Our children are all excited about the idea of a new baby brother or sister. They play regularly with their friend's baby brothers and sisters, and all three of them enjoy their time spent with babies and toddlers. They have been very helpful and loving to all the foster babies we have had in our home. I am very proud of their kindness, whenever we have opened our home to foster children. We also have a tremendous support network of family and friends, who have always opened their hearts to all of the children who have shared our lives the past 2 years since we received our certification. We hope that you will consider our family when making this difficult decision. I think our unique position as a home school family living close to world class medical facilities (DC and Baltimore metro area), would allow us to provide for the special needs in a successful way. Our home school and Church communities are both very accepting and open to children with special needs, and the children that we surround ourselves with come from Christian homes who teach their children that a child's differences are gifts from God, not handicaps. I look forward to talking with you more about sharing our lives with you and your child. God Bless, Kyle and Trisha
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Kyle
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