We’d like to introduce another Wild Olive Fundraising Family!

Meet the Whitney Family who is in the process of adopting a little girl from China…


Todd and Tracy are college sweethearts who have been married for over 22 years. From the time that they were engaged, they planned on building a large family. International adoption has always been on their hearts as part of that plan.

Making up The Whitney Gang are Micah (17), Caleb (16), Shayne (13), Judah (10) and Aidan (4). Aidan has been home from Baoji City in Shaanxi Province since September 2008. Soon, The Gang will welcome its newest member – a little girl who waits for them in China. The entire gang trusts the Lord to prepare their hearts and minds for the day that their crazy busy house full o’ love grows by two more feet. They cannot wait to see what else they will learn in the process of becoming a family of 8.

They are greatly encouraged and humbled to have so many folks come alongside them on this adventure to welcome Brynna home. The Gang loves adoption, particularly special needs adoption, and has learned a lot about the character of The Father from both the adoption community and from their adoption journeys.

Tracy blogs about The Gang’s doings here. Come by and give her some comment love. She loves new readers!

We’d like to introduce another Wild Olive Fundraising Family!

Meet the Goins family, who is in the process of adopting domestically…

Hi, we are the Goins family! We (Baron & Laura) have been married since 2004. God turned our hearts toward adoption in 2009, and in 2010, we adopted our beautiful daughter, Natalie Rebecca. Through that amazing journey, we knew that we wanted to adopt again.

Now, almost 2 years later, we are in the process of another domestic adoption. Please take a moment to read Laura’s blog, The Papyrus Basket, to learn more about our adoption story.

Thank you for shopping Wild Olive Tees to help raise the money to bring home another beautiful child of God!

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose. ~ Romans 8:28

We’d like to introduce another Wild Olive Fundraising Family!

The Wild Olive Adoption Fundraising Program was born out of our passion for the orphan. The goal of this program is to help raise support to enable families to adopt a child. What better cause is there than helping a child that was once an orphan be adopted into a loving, Jesus-following, forever family?

Meet the Heddens, who are preparing to bring home two teenage boys from China…

We are the Hedden Family and we are so excited to grow our family again! We are adopting two teenage boys from China. We felt the call last year when we saw the face of our soon-to-be son, Joe. A mother just knows… Thankfully, dad does too. We began all of our paperwork and stepped out on faith, knowing that God would guide every step of our process. Little did we know at the time that God had much bigger plans, a much greater blessing.

This month, we jumped out on faith to add yet another son to this adoption process. He has been advocated for as Leon and he stole our hearts. Leon has a heart defect and will age out of the possibility to be adopted at the end of next month. We are racing to get all of the necessary paperwork completed so that we can travel to China and scoop him up before his 14th birthday.

God has ordained every step of this, all He asks is for our obedience. We trust Him with the provisions, from timelines to travel to finances… It is all His economy anyway. We really appreciate your prayers and your support.

To find our family code and follow our journey, just visit us our family blog here.

Hedden, Party of 9!

Russ, Julie, Coleman, Jack, Robbie, Emma, Sam, Joe and “Leon”

We’d like to introduce another Wild Olive Fundraising Family!

The Wild Olive Adoption Fundraising Program was born out of our passion for the orphan. The goal of this program is to help raise support to enable families to adopt a child. What better cause is there than helping a child that was once an orphan be adopted into a loving, Jesus-following, forever family?

Meet the Zorzi family, who is adopting a girl from Columbia…

From the Zorzi’s:

To read more about our adoption journey please visit us here.

We’d like to introduce another Wild Olive Fundraising Family!

The Wild Olive Adoption Fundraising Program was born out of our passion for the orphan. The goal of this program is to help raise support to enable families to adopt a child. What better cause is there than helping a child that was once an orphan be adopted into a loving, Jesus-following, forever family?

Meet the Bandimeres, who are in the process of adopting a little girl from India…

Hello from the Bandimere family (David, Sarah, Adam, Yana, Lily, Jadon and Grace). We are excited to be adding to our family once again! We are in the process of adopting a little girl from India. She is 10 years old and in need of surgery in the U.S. When she is finally home with us we will have three 11 year olds in our house!! We wish that we could post her photo, because she is absolutely precious and we love her with all of our hearts!

If you’d like to follow our adoption journey, you can find us here.

We’d like to introduce another Wild Olive Fundraising Family!

The Wild Olive Adoption Fundraising Program was born out of our passion for the orphan. The goal of this program is to help raise support to enable families to adopt a child. What better cause is there than helping a child that was once an orphan be adopted into a loving, Jesus-following, forever family?

Meet the Barlows, who are in the process of adopting a little girl with Downs Syndrome from Bulgaria…

Bobby and I have been married for 7 years and have one daughter, Allison who is three years old. I am not able to have any more children and thought our family was done until we came across information about special needs adoption.

Nancy and Bobby Barlow

We’d like to introduce another Wild Olive Fundraising Family!

The Wild Olive Adoption Fundraising Program was born out of our passion for the orphan. The goal of this program is to help raise support to enable families to adopt a child. What better cause is there than helping a child that was once an orphan be adopted into a loving, Jesus-following, forever family?

Meet the Peacock Family, who is in the process of adopting a little girl from China…

Our Story:

We are a family of 5 with a desire to become a family of 6. We have 3 boys and want a daughter. We felt God’s call to adopt a little girl from China in April 2011. We have long desired to do something “more” for a child without a mommy or daddy. After praying and speaking with our boys about this desire, they were overjoyed to know we would be adopting a little girl to be their sister. Our best friends adopted a little girl from China July of 2010. She stole our heart! We are so grateful to have this opportunity and know that God will provide all our needs to complete this adoption. We are going to name her “Khloe” which means “blooming” and the seed that God has planted in our hearts will one day bloom in our home! Thank you God for our daughter, You know her and You will protect and keep her until she is with her forever family!

Eric, Amy, John Michael, Brayden, and Nathan Peacock

To follow the Peacock’s family blog, visit A Home For Khloe.

We at Wild Olive are passionate about orphans, and helping families in the process of adoption.

In an effort to help others who are doing just this, we have started an fundraising program for adopting families. We are excited to introduce you to some of the families who are participating in our program, and we will continue to post about other featured families in the weeks and months to come.

Meet the Gray family – now in the process of adopting a 1 year old boy from China…

Hi, we are the Gray family from Birmingham, Alabama! We are a family that has a heart for orphans but even more a heart for God. We started this journey of adoption completely dependent on the Lord to lead, guide, and provide for us. He has opened doors, changed hearts, and led us to our precious son when we least expected it.

We are so thankful for Love Without Boundaries and An Orphan’s Wish for giving much love and care to our son as he waits for us to arrive! Some of you may know him as “Xavier.” We currently have PA and hope to have our home study finished up by the end of the year.

This will be the only fundraiser we plan to do. We are trusting in the Lord to provide the rest and make His name great in the process!

We would love to have your prayers and support! To learn more about us or to find our family code visit us at A Journey to My Son!

Chad and Kristy Gray

In an effort to help others who are in the process of adoption, we have started an adoption fundraising program to help families raise support to bring their children home. We would love to introduce you to some of the families who are participating in our program… and we will continue to post about other featured families in the weeks and months to come.

Meet the Browns, a family in the process of adopting a little boy from Ghana…

Our family is adopting a little 4 year old boy from Ghana. His name is Noah! We are very excited that God would chose to add to our family through adoption again. We adopted twin daughters in 2010, which makes us a little nervous about the funds required for another adoption. But we are confident that our God is faithful and provides. Thank you for your support!

To visit the Brown Family’s blog, click here.

In an effort to help others who are in the process of adoption, we have started an adoption fundraising program to help families raise support to bring their children home. We would love to introduce you to some of the families who are participating in our program… and we will continue to post about other featured families in the weeks and months to come.

Meet the Haines Family, who is in the process of adopting a 7 year old from China…

We are the Haines family from southern Illinois. We are excited to be adding to our family again through adoption. God has really burdened our hearts for orphans and we are stepping out in faith and growing our family for the 3rd time in 3 years! We have been blessed with 5 children and are thrilled to be adding our 6th.

We just sent our LOI (Letter Of Intent) to China to adopt a 7 year little girl from Beijing. You can check out our blog at Blessed Beyond Belief to follow our journey. We consider all of you who partner with us to bring our daughter home as one of our blessings. Thank you for being Jesus with skin on! Wild Olive is a blessing to us as well. My oldest daughter and I have several Wild Olive shirts and we love to “get our verse on”!

Thanks again for your support!