Travel Day is Upon Us

Posted: June 6, 2017 by Karl Dinkler

June 14, 2017, is travel day. Wow. 591 days after we officially began our adoption journey, Nicole and I will head to China. Amidst the packing, re-packing, calling on friends that have gone before us to ensure we don’t forget anything essential and combing through our documents for what feels like…

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We’ve Been Matched!

Posted: March 22, 2017 by Karl Dinkler

In March of 2017, we received a phone call from America World letting us know they had a file for a beautiful little girl who is almost 2 years old. Her story is a pretty spectacular one. But more on that later. At birth, she was medically fragile due to a…

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Our Journey to Adoption

Posted: January 30, 2017 by Karl Dinkler

For us, the decision to adopt was a fairly easy one. Before we were even married, we both knew that God wanted to use adoption as a means to grow our future family. In essence, for Nicole and me, adoption was a prerequisite for marriage. While we didn’t know how…

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