Welcome to our adoption adventure! We are so glad you have come to learn more about this incredible desire God has placed on our hearts. The Lord has been preparing us for years even though we did not know what He was doing. God has already blessed us with four wonderful biological children however we feel our family is not complete yet.

We decided in October 2014 that we should open up our home to an orphan by hosting through Project 143. We started the process and ran into road blocks to host from Latvia yet God opened the doors wide to host from Ukraine. We chose our host daughter through much prayer as we looked at pictures. One evening God told Christy to look up the meaning of each girl’s name who we were considering to host. That night Christy knew who God wanted to bring into our family. Her name meant “pure” and Christy felt sure that special young lady was God’s pure gift. (We are not allowed to share her name on the internet for her safety.) After hosting her for four weeks at Christmas, our whole family fell in love with her and faced the hardest thing imaginable, saying good-bye as she left to go back to Ukraine. Our lives have not been the same since the day she “flew” into them as a stranger in December 2014. We re-hosted her for the summer from June until August to make sure that she wanted to be adopted by us and this time saying good-bye was still difficult. We now have the hope that she will be coming home soon. She celebrated her 15th birthday while with us in August. (Children age out of orphanages in Ukraine at age 16.) Never did we imagine adding an older child to our family yet all of our children can hardly wait for their older sister to be with us again and this time we won’t have to say good-bye!

We are hard at work on the adoption process and appreciate your prayers and any amount of financial help you can give. Without God and the support of our family and friends, we could not do this. The adoption could cost up to $36,000 which seems unattainable at times but our God is greater than any dollar amount. We have felt His comfort and His promise to provide for our every need since the beginning of this journey. Besides this pure charity fundraising we are having many other fundraisers including garage sales, bake sales, silent auction, and we are not sure of what else yet. Once the home study is complete, we will be applying for grants but we have many expenses before the home study will be finalized. Thank you for partnering with us in this adventure of bringing God’s pure gift home to our family.

“Our God is greater; our God is stronger; God, You are Higher than any other” (from Our God by M. Redman, J. Myrin, C. Tomlin, J. Reeves)

"He [God] will love you and bless you and increase your numbers." Deuteronomy 7:13a

In His service,
Aldridge Family