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Several years ago, after living through a tragic miscarriage, the unexpected abortion of child we had planned to privately adopt & several other failed attempts to start our family, Kim & I made the decision to pursue adoption from Ethiopia. At the time, the time line was not expected to be more than a couple of years tops. That was five years ago.
The past five year have been filled with anticipation, impatience, longing and joy. Then, just before this last Christmas we received the call from the agency. We were going to be adopting a beautiful 3 year old boy- Micah James Nigatu Arpin-Ricci. After so long, the relatively brief wait until we bring him home (hopefully around November) seems an eternity. We long to share our life with this precious gift of God.
This rapidly approaching event, however, also brings with it the many challenges. The biggest we face is the cost. As long term missionaries, we’ve live our lives very simply, managing to live on far less than the average couple, finding ways to subsidize our missions support whenever possible. The expense of adopting is significant for most people- for us it seemed impossible. However, to start our family, we would have paid double!
So many of you have already been very generous in your faithful financial support of us as missionaries (which also works to our child’s long term well being). And many of you have also stood with us in our adoption fund raising endeavors. We would like to ask you to stand with us again, as we now face some significant costs to finish this journey and bring our little boy home.
Please visit Adopt-a-Pixel to donate directly to this journey. The remaining costs represent more than I receive in missions support in a single years, so it feels daunting. However, we know that God provides, often through amazing people like you.
Thanks so much!
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