The $20 Adoption Plan

It’s been a long, heart-breaking journey for us to adoption - through infertility, miscarriage, and losing our foster daughters. We keep on trusting that the journey will make the ending so much sweeter, when we are finally able to start our family through adoption. The biggest challenge for us is not opening our hearts and home to another child, but it is in finding the finances to make this happen. We estimate our total cost for adoption fees, document preparation, home study, airfare, travel, attorney fees, etc. to be $25,000 - $35,000. That’s certainly money we don’t have, but we know God is faithful and is leading us to trust Him.

Honestly, it’s a little difficult (because of our pride), to make our needs known, but we also know it’s very Biblical to do so. This fall, we realized that if God is capable of bringing us the right child, He is also capable of providing the means for that child. It has been a humbling process to ask for help, but we trust that our submissive obedience to His plan for us will result in greater faith as we witness our sweet friends and family coming together to support us. We appreciate your friendship very much and would like you to pray & consider helping us with our “$20 Adoption Plan”. There are two ways you can help:

1. Prayer – Please pray God would tenderly care for our child until we are able to bring him/her home, that God would prepare us for the upcoming changes to our family, and that God will give us wisdom, discernment, and insight as we raise this child to know Jesus Christ.

2. Financial support - Will you please consider making a tax-deductible donation of $20 to our adoption fund? Lifesong For Orphans (a trusted non-profit organization) has graciously set up a fundraising account for us to raise funds for our adoption. You can send your tax-deductible gift between now and December 31st to the address below.

• Please donate ONLINE at www.lifesongfororphans.org/donation . Click “Donate”, under “Purpose” please write “preference Johnson #1646 Adoption
• OR, please make checks payable to "Lifesong" with “preference Johnson #1646 Adoption” written on the memo line. Mail checks to: Lifesong for Orphans, Attn: Johnson #1646, PO Box 40, Gridley, IL 61744

Thank you for investing in the Kingdom and our family through prayer and finances – it will be an investment with an eternal return! (Matt 6:20) We’ll keep our website updated with details about our adoption as we receive them. Please pray this entire process will glorify God and fulfill His purposes!

In Christ,
Duffy & Charis Johnson

“A father of the fatherless…God setteth the solitary in families…” - Psalms 68:5,6