A little about the Partons

Dear Friends,

I am honored that you would take the time to stop by our Adoption Fund page. I would like to introduce you to myself and to my sweet wife.

Julia and I will be celebrating five wonderful years of marriage in August  2014. We met at college and  married while I was finishing my second degree in theology. Julia also earned two teaching degrees while in school. We share our home with two wonderful Goldendoodles:  Keegan, who is five, and Chloe, who just turned one. They are wonderful to have around, and they love our little nieces and nephews who come to visit any chance they get. 

Our journey toward a family has not been unlike many other couples’. We have four angel babies in heaven that we cannot wait to meet and we are hopeful that someday we will successfully carry a biological child to full term. For now, that doesn't seem to be in our Maker’s plans. 

We have decided to make this bold step into the adoption process though we have no way of paying for it. I would love to use this fund to adopt our first child and then assist other couples in rescuing children whose parents are unable to care for them. My dad always told me that many hands make light the load. Our prayer is that the gifts of many will provide homes for children for years to come. 

Thank you for joining us on this journey! 

Please feel free to validate Julia and me in any way that you wish. Our email is listed below. 

Partond82809@gmail.com

46% raised as of 8/18/2014

Dear friends,

The past several weeks have been filled with blessing after blessing! We are so happy to announce today that we are LOWERING our financial goal from $15,000 to $10,000 and we may be able to save even more money!

The most expensive component of this adoption is now going to be our home study. This will run between $4,000 - $6,500 depending on the number of home visits that are done, and on how many classes we are required to attend. That leaves our expenses as follows:

Home study; Pre-Placement and Post-Placement - $6,500

Travel Expenses - $1,500

Lawyer Fees - $2,000

To date we have raised just over $4,550! That’s almost 50% to goal! How awesome! Our friends have been so generous, and God has been so very good. We have several garage sales upcoming across the nation from some great friends, and we are still raising money just as fast as we can.

We were able to save money on our legal fees by going through Legal Shield. We have to wait a little while longer to get things rolling with them, but they will handle an uncontested private adoption like this for a ridiculously low fee. Our $2,000 price point there is high, but we have miscellaneous cost that will easily eat up that excess.

To those of you who have taken a special interest in supporting this adoption as a part of your regular benevolent giving, Thank you! I will tell you what I told God, I cannot promise that this child will grow up and love the Lord, but I can promise to show this child that God is real in our lives, that God is always good, and that he is the best friend anyone could ask for. Thanks for being such an intricate part of this young life!