Gerdsen Family Adoption 2.0
Goal:
USD $70,000
Raised:
USD $23,704
Campaign funds will be received by Jamie Gerdsen
Gerdsen Family Adoption 2.0
Here we are, we are starting the adoption process again! As many of you know (or may not know) our journey with infertility has been a long one. Though we are continuing to believe for that miracle. We are moving towards another miracle adoption. On September 13, 2022 we received a call we weren’t expecting but yet hoping for. The call was from our agency director about a baby girl that was born the day before. She asked if we would be interested in being presented to the birth parents. Without hesitation, we said yes! At 9pm, we got another call saying we wouldn’t know much until the next morning. We decided to go and grab a few things because we had absolutely nothing for a baby if we were the family chosen. When we pulled into the store parking lot, we got a call from our social worker. She said, “This is the call, they chose you. How quickly can you get to the hospital?” We were in shock! We ran into the store to grab the few essentials we may need for our baby girl, then rushed to the hospital. We were so nervous. We knew she had been exposed to some pretty hard drugs and we didn’t know what her journey would look in the withdrawal period or what effects it would have on her in the future. We were so excited! Finally, a dream had come true and we were going to hold our little miracle that night. We got to the hospital and met our social worker in the parking lot to go up to the maternity ward. We got to the nurses desk and they rolled out our baby girl. We have never seen a more beautiful sight: our perfect 6lb 11oz miracle. We got to our room and I picked her up. Her little body was trembling and had the tiniest jolts due to the withdrawal. She was in our arms and whatever journey was ahead of us, we would go through it together. It’s been over a year of raising the most beautiful, smart, joyful little girl. You all are a part of her journey. Without so many of you giving, we would have never been able to bring her home.
Now we embark on our next miracle journey and we want to invite you all once again to join us. We don’t know how long this journey will be or what it will look like, but we are here for it every step of the way.
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Believing with you for God’s provision!
We love you both and your beautiful family!
Praying for you guys! So excited for your precious family!
We’ve been praying for you . I’m so happy and can’t wait to see the baby when I come out in June .
Excited to give towards this!
Praying for those babies!
We love you guys! Praying for your sweet family!
We are praying for God’s provision and his strength on this new exciting journey for you all! (The Bruton's neighbors) Raffle.
So excited for you guys and your growing family! Raffle
Raffle. Maybe we can stay there when we come down to visit our new grand babies.
Love you guys!
So happy for this new chapter for y'all!
I’m so happy for you guys!!! How exciting is this!! Double blessing!! Love you Gerdsen’s
Raffle
We are so excited for you, Gersden fam! Much love and many prayers!
Family explosion! Best kind!
Just wanted to help
Updates
Update #3
March 5th, 2025
Hello Family, Friends and Prayer Warriors,
Do we have a major update for you, we have been matched with a baby boy who we can't wait to meet sometime this month after he is born. We are so excited to welcome him. Birth mom is an amazing brave woman who has chosen to give her son a beautiful life with us. Our relationship with her is nothing short of a miracle, we have been welcomed into all of her appointments and she even wants us there to witness the birth of our son. We are so honored to have met her and that she has entrusted us to be the parents to her son.
Second MAJOR UPDATE, many of you know that we adopted our beautiful daughter in 2022 and she is nothing short of a miracle. We got a call today that her birth mom and birth dad had a baby girl and want us to parent her. WE SAID YES!! I know two new borns in one month, are we crazy? Maybe, but how can we not say yes to the baby who is 100% Braelynn's bio sister. Baby girl has a long road ahead of her. She has some major heart complication that we are confident that the Lord knew about and will carry her through, one of them being a pretty big surgery in the coming week. So prayers for all of that, we don't fully know the road before us but we are saying yes to it all.
So here is the big ask, we did have all our funding for our adoption but it is currently unable and we are unsure if any of it will be available anytime soon. WE are needing close to $70,000 by the end of the month. please share this campaign far and wide to all you know. We are believing that our yes will bring some big miracles.
Thank you,
The Gerdsens
Home Study is Finished and we are active!
November 16th, 2024
Hello Everyone!
I just want to again thank you all for your prayers and contribution to our next adoption. We are expectant in our waiting and can’t wait to see the little one the Lord brings to us.
As of now we are actively filling out grant applications and fundraising. We are still quite far from our goal financially but this is what faith is all about. When we got matched with Braelynn we did t have all the funds but the Lord provided and we didn’t go a cent in debt and we are believing for the same for our next baby.
What you can do:
1) Pray: for our birth mom (strength, protection, provision), our child (supernatural protection) and for us, this process isn’t easy, it takes a lot of faith and trust.
2) Share our story!
3) Give, any amount counts!!!
Thank you for all your love and support in this process.
The Gerdsens
(Kevin, Jamie and Braelynn)
Update #1
August 28th, 2024
Here we are finally! We had to delay our push for fundraising because after eight months after Braelynn's finalization date of her adoption we were informed that her birth certificate had been lost by the state. We couldn't move forward with our home study until we had her birth certificate, we didn't have a time frame as to when we would get it. Finally today we have her birth certificate in hand. This is things people don't tell you about the complexities of adoption. But, praise Jesus we have it and we can move forward with our next adoption fundraising campaign. Thank you for asking, praying and believing while we embark on our next adoption journey.
Love,
The Gerdsens
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