Kidder's Adoption Fund
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Four years ago God sovereignly opened our hearts to international adoption. We started gathering information but quickly realized how expensive it would be and that we needed to get some of our finances in order. We moved three times and sold two houses in the last 5 years and by God’s grace we were able to pay off all our debt!
In the meantime, we knew we had the room in our house, and the love to share with a baby that needed it…so we became foster parents. We have been SO blessed as a foster family working with our baby girl, “E”. It has been amazing to watch her develop and grow. We are excited about future foster care opportunities, but we still have international adoption and specifically Uganda on our hearts and minds.
For years we have been praying that God would protect our future children. The Lord opened a huge door by allowing Jared to lead a mission trip to Uganda this past summer. He worked at a Children’s home and fell in love with the children there. When he returned home he kept talking about a specific sibling pair.
We went on with life but couldn’t get them out of our thoughts. We finally sat down and talked about the possibility of adopting them. We sought out Godly counsel, spoke with our family, called our missionary friend to ask for more details about these kiddos and PRAYED, PRAYED, PRAYED!
These are the children we are seeking! These are the children we are already picturing in our home, playing with Sawyer, and in our arms!
These children were abandoned three years ago and have been in this Children’s home since then. We have already started the Investigation process as we want to adopt the truly orphaned; those without any family that could care for them.
Here’s where you come in. We are asking our family and friends to please PRAY for us. This is the most important thing that you can do for us. We need wisdom, clarity of thought, and much patience as we fill out hundreds of forms and wait months for our kids. We also need help raising funds. If you at all feel led to invest in our growing family, please either help by donating to help fund our adoption or share this link on your Facebook page, Instagram, or with your friends and family and let them know that you know us personally.
It’s easy to say adoption really just costs as much as a new car…but we have never bought one of those! What we can say is that nothing is too much for our GREAT God. We are including a breakdown of our adoption expenses so that you can have an idea of why it’s so expensive.
$4,790 Pre–adoption (including Home Study and USCIS)
$6,200 Adoption agency fee (work done on the US side of the adoption)
$8,000 Foreign Fee (Work being done in Uganda, including visas, lawyer fees, etc.)
$7,700 Travel Expenses (two round trip flights for two people, two one way flights for our future children and visas)
$7,000 In country Expenses (car, driver, fuel, food, lodging for 5 weeks over two trips for two people)
$1,050 More In country Expenses (children’s visas, medical exams)
$2,100 Post Adoption (Court, post adoption visits)
Total adoption cost: $36,840
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your prayers and financial contributions as we seek to bring these children home so we can call them OUR CHILDREN! We are so thankful for you!
Jared, Maria & Sawyer Kidder
In the meantime, we knew we had the room in our house, and the love to share with a baby that needed it…so we became foster parents. We have been SO blessed as a foster family working with our baby girl, “E”. It has been amazing to watch her develop and grow. We are excited about future foster care opportunities, but we still have international adoption and specifically Uganda on our hearts and minds.
For years we have been praying that God would protect our future children. The Lord opened a huge door by allowing Jared to lead a mission trip to Uganda this past summer. He worked at a Children’s home and fell in love with the children there. When he returned home he kept talking about a specific sibling pair.
We went on with life but couldn’t get them out of our thoughts. We finally sat down and talked about the possibility of adopting them. We sought out Godly counsel, spoke with our family, called our missionary friend to ask for more details about these kiddos and PRAYED, PRAYED, PRAYED!
These are the children we are seeking! These are the children we are already picturing in our home, playing with Sawyer, and in our arms!
These children were abandoned three years ago and have been in this Children’s home since then. We have already started the Investigation process as we want to adopt the truly orphaned; those without any family that could care for them.
Here’s where you come in. We are asking our family and friends to please PRAY for us. This is the most important thing that you can do for us. We need wisdom, clarity of thought, and much patience as we fill out hundreds of forms and wait months for our kids. We also need help raising funds. If you at all feel led to invest in our growing family, please either help by donating to help fund our adoption or share this link on your Facebook page, Instagram, or with your friends and family and let them know that you know us personally.
It’s easy to say adoption really just costs as much as a new car…but we have never bought one of those! What we can say is that nothing is too much for our GREAT God. We are including a breakdown of our adoption expenses so that you can have an idea of why it’s so expensive.
$4,790 Pre–adoption (including Home Study and USCIS)
$6,200 Adoption agency fee (work done on the US side of the adoption)
$8,000 Foreign Fee (Work being done in Uganda, including visas, lawyer fees, etc.)
$7,700 Travel Expenses (two round trip flights for two people, two one way flights for our future children and visas)
$7,000 In country Expenses (car, driver, fuel, food, lodging for 5 weeks over two trips for two people)
$1,050 More In country Expenses (children’s visas, medical exams)
$2,100 Post Adoption (Court, post adoption visits)
Total adoption cost: $36,840
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your prayers and financial contributions as we seek to bring these children home so we can call them OUR CHILDREN! We are so thankful for you!
Jared, Maria & Sawyer Kidder
Organizer
Jared Kidder
Organizer
Thornton, CO
