Chris and Christine

Approved and Waiting Adoptive Family

At A Glance

Names: Chris and Christine
Age: 43 and 40
Children: None
Reason for Adopting: Infertility
Number of Years Married: 7
Ethnicity of Adoptive Parents: Caucasian

Birthmother/Birthfather Letter

Dear Mother-/Father-To-Be,

Our names are Chris and Christine, and we are a couple in New Mexico looking to adopt a child into our home. Neither of us is a native of New Mexico (Christine was born and raised in Ohio, and Chris was also born in Ohio but raised in Texas), but we both moved here as adults for either work or to attend school. It was fortunate that we did, because otherwise we might not have met!

After getting her Master's degree in counseling, Christine chose New Mexico as a place to start looking because her grandmother lives here. For many years, she helped people with disabilities find employment before beginning work at our church as the Children's Ministry Director. Working with children has been a delight, and her many tasks at our church include selecting the curriculum for the Sunday school classes, planning Vacation Bible School, and teaching in the classrooms. Chris often gets volunteered to help in the children's area (which he actually enjoys). :-)

Chris first moved to New Mexico to attend the University of New Mexico, and after finishing graduate school in electrical engineering he had the opportunity to work in several laboratories in other countries. He returned to New Mexico to start work at his present job, which is with a science and engineering company that assists with the many projects at the various laboratories in New Mexico. The research work that he has been able to do at the labs has been very interesting.

We are both Christians, and our faith in Jesus Christ is the foundation of our lives. As a result, the things that we are involved in together are centered mainly on our church and its missions activities. (It was actually through a Bible study at another church that we first met each other.) In addition to Christine's work with the children, we are both involved in teaching Bible studies and with helping out with various tasks around the church. Groups from our church visit an orphanage in Mexico twice a year to help with maintenance and construction tasks, and they also travel to El Salvador each summer to teach the Bible and do other humanitarian work; we have been able to participate in several of these trips.

Though we have been married for seven years now, our only other "family member" at the moment is a twelve-year-old calico cat. We have no children, and it does not appear that we will be able to have children. The idea of adoption was not new to us, however, as Christine has an adopted brother. We had also been considering adoption as a means to one day add to our family even before we found out that we could not have children.

We cannot begin to understand the emotions that you must be feeling right now, and surely it must be difficult thinking about placing your child in the care of another home and family. We pray that the Lord will encourage you at this time and help you in making this decision. Thank you for taking the time to read our letter and to hear of our desire to adopt a child into our home.

Sincerely,

Chris and Christine