Adoption Rocks: Building Our Family One Kid at a Time

Our family is thinking about kid #3 and we are so excited!!  We've decided to keep a blog for this adoption journey as we need help.

We've titled our blog Adoption Rocks: Building Our Family One Kid at a Time because we really love adoption and we love seeing how God is working in our family.  We believe that God is calling us to adopt our third child and we are fully ready to dive in although not without some trepidation and fear.   

First of all, we'd like you to start praying.  Pray for our family, especially our two children, as we prepare ourselves and our home for another child.  Pray for the child that will eventually become a Tuininga -- whether he/she is already born or not.  Pray for his/her birth mom -- she is precious to us already and we love her and the decision she will eventually make for her child.  

Second, finances.  Adoption in Ontario is very expensive.  We are talking thousands of dollars.  We have already spent a bunch but we know there are many more costs coming.  We know that God is faithful and that he uses his people in mighty ways.  We would love it if you would join us financially in helping us grow our family.   

There is a fundraising button at the side of this blog that will track our fundraising progress -- we hope to see it grow quickly!!  So, how are we fundraising?  Well, our first go will be participating in the Warrior Dash (www.warriordash.com) in Barrie on July 20.  We would love you to check out the link and then sponsor our team as we get dirty and sweaty running and completing crazy obstacles through mud. Yes, mud.  Fun right?!  Chat with us if you'd like to pay money to see us cry while trying to complete this "dash"!! Oh, and we are so far a team of seven so we aren't the only crazy ones plus there are thousands of other participants!

That's all for now.  We'll get the word out and try to post often. 

Josh & April