Big Brother, Big Sister

For the past several years,  our church has been very vocal and proactive about God's heart for adoption.

In these past years, several families from our church have adopted and fostered children.

Zack and I do desire to adopt one day, but right now,  we have a pretty large sum of student loans to pay off.  In order to do so, we've chosen to live in a tiny 2 bedroom, 1 bath apartment.  It's not impressive, but the rent is cheap and we have a dog for our daughter and an Arizona rock backyard.  It works for us and we're happy to sacrifice a nicer home for the freedom from!

And yet, our hearts still feel that desire to do something for at-risk youth in our society.  We've decided that although we are not in a season where we can adopt, we can be positive role-models to a child who may not have been born into the best living circumstances. The best program to do so in our city is Big Brother, Big Sister.

You typically just hear of one-on-one Big Brother (or Sister) and Little Brother (or Sister) matches, but what's really neat for us is that they also have couple/family matches in which an attached family, together, are matched with a Little Brother  (I'm sure you get it,  but just to be clear as glass and to selfishly appease my imaginary OCD, 'Sister').

We get to meet ours next week, and we're so excited!  Ours is a Little Brother