Chuck and Dawn

From day 1, Covenant Kids has been a prayerful, trustworthy, informative, and encouraging friend. Our initial meeting with Travis was comfortable and informative.  We had no idea what we were doing or what needed to be done, but when we sat down with Travis, he answered our many questions and began leading us.

In our first class, Bill & Karen Lund overwhelmed us with their vision and passion for God and His children.  During this first class, Mr. Lund told us “God already has your child picked out”.  Wow!  We held on tight to those words throughout our journey.  From the night of this first class and on, we KNEW the Lunds & so many of the CK staff members were praying for us.

The paperwork seems endless but we never felt like were just “some” family.  Administration was always on top of our paperwork.  They knew what had been completed, what needed to be completed, and sent us timely reminders as needed. We had the pleasure of working with two wonderful women who were our caseworkers.  They were informative, always had time for us, and calmed us when we became anxious.  We consider ourselves private people and our caseworker made the home study very comfortable – like we were getting to know a new friend.

On the days surrounding our baby girl’s birth, our caseworkers were amazing!  They were professional and discreet when needed, but they were excited and joyful for us as well.  They were the “calm” during a very emotional time. We know it sounds silly but when our adoption was finalized, we were saddened knowing we no longer would be visited or have frequent conversations with our caseworkers.  They became a part of our family.  The adoption journey is not one to take alone and our caseworkers walked right beside us (at times holding our hands).  They never made us feel like this was their job.  They became our friends and we will never forget them.

We will never be able to thank CK properly for partnering with us.  What we are able to do is pray for this agency, their clients, and send every couple we talk to about adoption their way.

God Bless Covenant Kids!!

Justin and Emily

Since 2008 we have been fostering children through Covenant Kids and until last year hadn’t really thought much about private adoption. But in a meeting in March 2009, Bill mentioned a new program, called Embrace and we knew he was talking to us. The timing just felt right and we jumped at the opportunity! Although we were prepared to wait a year or two, in September 2009 we got “the call” announcing that a birth mother was interested in us and did we indeed want her to look at our album. I don’t think we could have said, “Yes” any faster. After hanging up the phone, we laughed, cried, prayed and started immediately talking about baby names. Covenant Kids was great about touching base with us each week to let us know how the birth mother was and how close she was to making her birth plan and adoptive family selection. Time crawled and without Covenant Kids’ careful and frequent check-ins with us, we probably would have gone mad.

Oct 2^nd we got a phone call announcing that a healthy baby girl had been born and the birth mother wanted to meet us that night at the hospital. Another moment of crying, praying and laughing. What would she look like? Would the mom and her family like us? When will she make a decision? So many questions, but not any time to think. We had to get dressed, call every single family member and friend and make it 1.5 hours away in Friday night traffic to the hospital. When we arrived there was not a single awkward moment. CK had done their job on all fronts. We knew who would be there, what their concerns were, their personalities – we knew what to expect. And the birth mom and her family knew all about us – they only had three questions. We spent the rest of the evening holding Aliyeh and talking with the grandparents and biological father. We knew the family would be making a decision most likely that night and I don’t think we slept a wink.

At 1:50 PM Saturday, Oct 3^rd, they called us on speaker phone and delivered those unforgettable words, “you can come to the hospital and get your daughter now.”

Just writing these words brings all the tears of joy back. Since then our family has been perfect – our daughter is perfect. We agreed to an open adoption and have seen the bio family twice with Aliyeh so far as well as exchange photos and emails monthly. All is well and we don’t expect that to change. In fact exactly one week from today, April 7^th, the adoption will be final. Aliyeh’s birth mom’s mother said something we’ll never forget that we treasure and thought to share with you. When we met them in late October I asked her how she felt about seeing her granddaughter so soon and I asked if it was what she expected she’d feel. She looked at us and said,” We chose adoption because we knew it was the best decision for Aliyeh but in seeing the two of us with her she knew that adoption was the best decision for us – our family was blessed by her arrival.” I don’t think we could say anymore about how Covenant Kids shaped our family and how adoption has sweetened our lives. Our journey is so rich and we have even talked about doing it again!!

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