Covey Adoption: Many Hearts Helping Mini Hearts
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Hi, everyone! I'm so excited you're here! My name is Rachel Walden, and it is my great joy to organize this fundraiser for Jonathan & Sarah Covey (my brother-in-law and sister). If you are seeing this, would you please take a few moments out of your time to read about their journey? Even if you personally know Jonathan and Sarah, I encourage you to read about what led them to where they are today...
Jonathan and Sarah have had 6 miscarriages in the 4 years they have been married. They have grieved, celebrated, and loved each one of these babies uniquely. In Sarah's words, she says, "My babies were not a mistake that God allowed, they were a gift that He gave for a short season."
In December of 2019, after years of doctors appointments, prayer, and seeking to bear children, Jonathan and Sarah received a phone call that would change the course of their life...
"Our personal nightmare just became our reality. The fertility journey that we had been on, that seemed so hopeful, just came to a screeching halt. One seemingly innocent test result came in and altered the course of our life.
I’ll never forget getting the call from my nurse who had become a friend over the 4 years of our fertility journey.
“Sarah...” Her voice started shaking, and then she started crying. “It’s not good.” “Oh really?” I said? She proceeded to tell me that as a couple, my husband I would never again be able to conceive. Our little babies who left my womb way to early would be the only biologically children we would have.
My first thought was “Oh, of course! That makes sense!” My second thought was gratitude that God had answered our prayers of 4 years to give us answers.
But now, I had to tell my husband this when he got home. That night we were both in shock, and it hit him hard. I felt so strong as I comforted him as he cried. My sweet husband knew that I hadn’t had the opportunity to grieve over this yet so he took me out to dinner the next night. As we prayed over our food I listened to my husband ask for God to comfort us and just be with us right now. As I heard his sweet heart, I lost it. I started sobbing out loud in the middle of the restaurant. Everyone was watching. I didn’t care. The reality of it all just sunk in. To my knowledge, I wasn’t ever going to be able to carry a baby again. And we would never see what our children would look like. This journey was over.
I felt an overwhelming feeling to get out of the packed room, and run into the darkness, under the stars and pour my heart out to Jesus. So that’s what I did. I ran out. My husband grabbed his keys and drove the car behind me as I walked out under the stars in the parking lot talking out loud to my Lord. There was nobody around me, it was quiet, and I lifted my hands to God as I shared with Him the depths of my heart.
God met me there. He calmed my soul, and showed me that He was with me in our sorrow."
Though Jonathan and Sarah's journey didn't turn out like any of us expected, it turned out just exactly how God had planned for it to all along. He has planned every detail of their lives since before time began! In Jonathan's words, "Miscarriage and adoption was never part of my plan. But it was amazing when I finally realized that "my" plan is always infinitely inferior to God's plan. God's sovereignty has put us where we are today and I can be okay with that because He not only looks after me in the best possible way, He will use the circumstances to look after some tiny person who needs the love we want so badly to give."
In the months following after the devastating news in December, Jonathan and Sarah have taken time to heal and have also prayerfully considered adoption (actually they've considered adoption for 4 years, but finally feel as if the Lord confirmed it in their hearts.)
So this is where they are.
"After years of prayer, and many many long talks with each other, with the counsel of dear friends, our pastors, and our family, we can now say IT'S FINALLY HAPPENING! We're adopting a baby!!!
So, here is our plan.
We are opening up a couple different paths to adoption.
1) In the state of Texas you can adopt directly through the birth mother. So, we have written an online adoption profile that we are sharing with you. Here is what we need. Can you share this link to your social media,and email it to friends and family? If you protest outside of abortion clinics and find a Mother who might need to find an adoptive family for her child... would you share our profile with her? (https://jmcovey1.wixsite.com/website-5) Personally, we are working on emailing our adoption profile to different Christian organizations and churches that we know of.
If we can adopt directly from a birth mom, the cost is lower and easier for us to provide.
2) We are working on preparing for a home study!
3) The normal route for adoption is to use an agency. The Agency fees range on average between $30,000 -$45,000 (or even higher). Therefore, we will need to fund-raise. So if you would like to support placing an orphan or abandoned baby in our home, please consider donating to this campaign! Truly, any amount helps! All proceeds will go toward adopting our child. (We also have some exciting fundraising events planned in the future! We'll update you here on this page when those happen!)
4) PRAY - would you please pray with us? Pray for endurance during this process. It's so hard emotionally, physically, financially etc. Therefore, we would very much appreciate your prayers, calls, texts and just you "checking in" with us. Pray for our baby. They are already knitted into our hearts, as we hopefully anticipate their arrival into our lives. Start praying now, for our baby's salvation. Pray for us, that we would be good parents.
This endeavor is bigger than us, but we are not alone in this journey. We want our baby to know how many people surrounded us in love as we prepared to look for him/her and bring them home. In Jonathan's words, "Every decision we make will be for the love, betterment, protection and joy of this child. It will be our life focus. We will be loyal and supportive our entire life, giving them our time, devotion, money, support, and sharing the love of Christ with them." We look forward to telling them their story, and showing them pictures of people that invested into their life. We want y'all to hold us accountable as we raise our baby. You will have invested your heart into this journey, and you will invest your love into this child's life. You will play a special role in the life of our child.
5) Lastly, SHARE our story, share our gofundme page (gofundme.com/f/help-jonathan-and-sarah-adopt-a-baby ), and share our adoption profile (https://jmcovey1.wixsite.com/website-5 ).
You can share to: Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, through email, a phone call, text, word of mouth, share with your church family, share to your church's prayer list - any platform and by any creative way you can think of!
You can share with:
Your family, extended family, friends, church, community, neighbors, local organizations etc. (And then ask them to share it too!) You may attach our names and our email to print-ups and hand them out to Mom's or staff at your local pregnancy crisis center!
Let's bring the baby God has planned for us into our home! "
And lastly, I (Rachel), and Jonathan & Sarah want to thank each and every one of you for loving, praying, serving and supporting them. They are grateful to you beyond words! This would not be possible without your help. May God richly bless you!
-Rachel Walden
P.s. Feel free to email me any questions, or to send an encouraging message to Jonathan and Sarah through this email: [email redacted]
You may also follow their adoption journey on Facebook or Instagram and be sure to come back here for updates!
Jonathan and Sarah have had 6 miscarriages in the 4 years they have been married. They have grieved, celebrated, and loved each one of these babies uniquely. In Sarah's words, she says, "My babies were not a mistake that God allowed, they were a gift that He gave for a short season."
In December of 2019, after years of doctors appointments, prayer, and seeking to bear children, Jonathan and Sarah received a phone call that would change the course of their life...
"Our personal nightmare just became our reality. The fertility journey that we had been on, that seemed so hopeful, just came to a screeching halt. One seemingly innocent test result came in and altered the course of our life.
I’ll never forget getting the call from my nurse who had become a friend over the 4 years of our fertility journey.
“Sarah...” Her voice started shaking, and then she started crying. “It’s not good.” “Oh really?” I said? She proceeded to tell me that as a couple, my husband I would never again be able to conceive. Our little babies who left my womb way to early would be the only biologically children we would have.
My first thought was “Oh, of course! That makes sense!” My second thought was gratitude that God had answered our prayers of 4 years to give us answers.
But now, I had to tell my husband this when he got home. That night we were both in shock, and it hit him hard. I felt so strong as I comforted him as he cried. My sweet husband knew that I hadn’t had the opportunity to grieve over this yet so he took me out to dinner the next night. As we prayed over our food I listened to my husband ask for God to comfort us and just be with us right now. As I heard his sweet heart, I lost it. I started sobbing out loud in the middle of the restaurant. Everyone was watching. I didn’t care. The reality of it all just sunk in. To my knowledge, I wasn’t ever going to be able to carry a baby again. And we would never see what our children would look like. This journey was over.
I felt an overwhelming feeling to get out of the packed room, and run into the darkness, under the stars and pour my heart out to Jesus. So that’s what I did. I ran out. My husband grabbed his keys and drove the car behind me as I walked out under the stars in the parking lot talking out loud to my Lord. There was nobody around me, it was quiet, and I lifted my hands to God as I shared with Him the depths of my heart.
God met me there. He calmed my soul, and showed me that He was with me in our sorrow."
Though Jonathan and Sarah's journey didn't turn out like any of us expected, it turned out just exactly how God had planned for it to all along. He has planned every detail of their lives since before time began! In Jonathan's words, "Miscarriage and adoption was never part of my plan. But it was amazing when I finally realized that "my" plan is always infinitely inferior to God's plan. God's sovereignty has put us where we are today and I can be okay with that because He not only looks after me in the best possible way, He will use the circumstances to look after some tiny person who needs the love we want so badly to give."
In the months following after the devastating news in December, Jonathan and Sarah have taken time to heal and have also prayerfully considered adoption (actually they've considered adoption for 4 years, but finally feel as if the Lord confirmed it in their hearts.)
So this is where they are.
"After years of prayer, and many many long talks with each other, with the counsel of dear friends, our pastors, and our family, we can now say IT'S FINALLY HAPPENING! We're adopting a baby!!!
So, here is our plan.
We are opening up a couple different paths to adoption.
1) In the state of Texas you can adopt directly through the birth mother. So, we have written an online adoption profile that we are sharing with you. Here is what we need. Can you share this link to your social media,and email it to friends and family? If you protest outside of abortion clinics and find a Mother who might need to find an adoptive family for her child... would you share our profile with her? (https://jmcovey1.wixsite.com/website-5) Personally, we are working on emailing our adoption profile to different Christian organizations and churches that we know of.
If we can adopt directly from a birth mom, the cost is lower and easier for us to provide.
2) We are working on preparing for a home study!
3) The normal route for adoption is to use an agency. The Agency fees range on average between $30,000 -$45,000 (or even higher). Therefore, we will need to fund-raise. So if you would like to support placing an orphan or abandoned baby in our home, please consider donating to this campaign! Truly, any amount helps! All proceeds will go toward adopting our child. (We also have some exciting fundraising events planned in the future! We'll update you here on this page when those happen!)
4) PRAY - would you please pray with us? Pray for endurance during this process. It's so hard emotionally, physically, financially etc. Therefore, we would very much appreciate your prayers, calls, texts and just you "checking in" with us. Pray for our baby. They are already knitted into our hearts, as we hopefully anticipate their arrival into our lives. Start praying now, for our baby's salvation. Pray for us, that we would be good parents.
This endeavor is bigger than us, but we are not alone in this journey. We want our baby to know how many people surrounded us in love as we prepared to look for him/her and bring them home. In Jonathan's words, "Every decision we make will be for the love, betterment, protection and joy of this child. It will be our life focus. We will be loyal and supportive our entire life, giving them our time, devotion, money, support, and sharing the love of Christ with them." We look forward to telling them their story, and showing them pictures of people that invested into their life. We want y'all to hold us accountable as we raise our baby. You will have invested your heart into this journey, and you will invest your love into this child's life. You will play a special role in the life of our child.
5) Lastly, SHARE our story, share our gofundme page (gofundme.com/f/help-jonathan-and-sarah-adopt-a-baby ), and share our adoption profile (https://jmcovey1.wixsite.com/website-5 ).
You can share to: Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, through email, a phone call, text, word of mouth, share with your church family, share to your church's prayer list - any platform and by any creative way you can think of!
You can share with:
Your family, extended family, friends, church, community, neighbors, local organizations etc. (And then ask them to share it too!) You may attach our names and our email to print-ups and hand them out to Mom's or staff at your local pregnancy crisis center!
Let's bring the baby God has planned for us into our home! "
And lastly, I (Rachel), and Jonathan & Sarah want to thank each and every one of you for loving, praying, serving and supporting them. They are grateful to you beyond words! This would not be possible without your help. May God richly bless you!
-Rachel Walden
P.s. Feel free to email me any questions, or to send an encouraging message to Jonathan and Sarah through this email: [email redacted]
You may also follow their adoption journey on Facebook or Instagram and be sure to come back here for updates!
Organizer
Rachel Walden
Organizer
Cedar Park, TX