Growing by His Grace

This week has been very fun for our family! We have publicly announced that we are adopting and the response has been phenomenal. We are so thankful for everyone's support, love and joy for us in this season! We've had a lot of people ask us for details that we haven't yet explained here yet so we figured it would be good to get it all into writing! Let's do some Q&A and if you have any other questions, please feel free to message either of us for an answer! Q: What age child are you planning to adopt? A: For now, due to the ages of our boys, we are looking for a child between newborn and 1 year old. Maintaining birth order is a highly suggested plan for an adoptive family. So for now, while our boys are still so young, we are looking for a young child/infant. (Let us be clear... the Lord can do anything and if His plan looks differently than ours, then here we go and we'll see the joy that comes from following Him!!) Q: Do you want a boy or a girl? A: ...

Hi! We are Rob and Lindsey Rebhan - welcome to our adoption page! While this is only a website, we hope that you will be able to learn about us, our heart for adoption and our desire to add another child into our family. Please take a look around, read our blogs and feel free to contact us for any further information! If you are visiting our page as an expectant mother, please know that we are praying for YOU!

We are celebrating in the Rebhan household because yesterday we got our final approval of our home study which means we are fully eligible and approved to adopt. Praise the Lord!! We are thrilled that all these months of paperwork, classes and waiting have come together and ended with approval and the open door to move forward. Next comes waiting but it's active waiting, waiting that will result in a phone call or a connection that leads us to our next child. We are so in love with a child that we haven't even met yet! The Lord has done great things for us; we are glad! - Psalm 126:3

We are filled with joy! Joy that can only come from Christ. He has filled our hearts with encouragement and great peace! Everyone we talk with about this adoption process so far offers support, prayer and excitement for our family! We are clinging to Christ during this process... there are so many unknowns and yet, we know that God has a plan for us.   Somewhere, either physically or just in God’s great plan, there is a child that will one day call us mom and dad and that is breathtaking. A child that will gain two brothers in our sons and, we pray, lifelong friends and teammates. A child we hope and pray will feel God’s great grace on his or her heart and life forever. While we will feel joy while gaining a member to our family, we must acknowledge that someone else will be enduring loss simultaneously. Our hearts will never quite understand that loss but we will pray our child feels wanted, loved, seen and ultimately full of joy while his/her mother feels complete pe...

{written by Lindsey} We've been waiting for years. Waiting to see how the Lord would work in our family. Waiting to see His plan for us. Waiting for what we thought was fulfillment (but really just wanting our dreams to come true). Waiting for the right time. We were waiting. We are still waiting. Waiting is hard, especially when there is no end in sight or [if i'm being completely honest] it feels like you're being wronged by the waiting. I've had those feelings. I had no understanding of what the waiting was for. Instead of looking at what good could come in the waiting, I was disappointed and sad. I knew that the desires of my heart weren't wrong but they were, in fact, mine. I wasn't pouring it out to God saying "Lord, your will be done and though I want our family to grow desperately, I want to serve you more and glorify you in every season." Nope, I wasn't there. Neither of us were. We needed some time to wait. Time gave us the chance t...

It's a funny thing to sit down and type up our decision to adopt. It's not something that happened precisely and all at once the way a blog post tends to be composed. It was something that started years ago, before Hunter was even born. The seed was planted then and has taken years to grow. I have always had a heart for it and Rob has always had a connection to it (his mom is adopted) so we both knew the beauty and weight of the decision, but it wasn't an immediate yes for us. First, the technicalities:      Over the past 8+ months Rob and I have had so many conversations and spent tons of time in prayer while doing SO much research. The way our relationship works (in most situations including this one) is that I am the researcher. I read and sift through the abundance of materials available about a topic and then once I have learned about all the options, I present them to Rob and we talk through the pared down information. It's just the way we think as individuals ...