We are overjoyed to welcome sweet Joshua Jerald into our family! Joshua was born on June 24 at 7:08pm, weighing 9lbs and 22-1/2 inches long. Joshua joins his brother, Samuel, who just turned two this month. We are excited for them to be good friends and grow up together!

Our verse for Joshua is:

 “Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.” Joshua 1:9

We praise God for our second precious son joining our family!

~Adam and Melanie happy parents

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We welcome you to this wonderful life Joshua!

You are LOVED!

A MESSAGE FROM JEN LOWELL OUR BRIDGE PROJECT COORDINATOR

“As of this summer, I will no longer be the coordinator of The Bridge Project. It has been such an honor and privilege to play a role in cultivating and nurturing relationships between donor and adopting families through the Bridge Project. Knowing first hand how valuable, precious, and exciting every update is, it was such a source of joy to ensure timely and safe delivery of each of your updates to their respective party.

My transitioning away from this role will not be a transition fully away from EASCP, both with our forever ties to Maria and the agency through the incredible blessings of our boys, but also as I still plan to help in a mentor-type of role to families and new clients as they embark on their own embryo adoption journeys.

Seasons of life and God’s plans are shifting my presence with EASCP so that I can be available in a new way to my kids as my eldest enters his school-age years and my youngest his preschool years. I hope to be involved in both of their classrooms and schools through volunteering and school activities. I also plan to spend more time on some creative projects and dreams that I’ve been nurturing for a while but have never completely stepped into due to an already busy rhythm of life staying at home with my boys and my husband’s job with the military.

I have such a deep-rooted passion and love for this community and all the special lives and families built through embryo adoption. And, I have dreams and plans to continue to keep bringing hope to other couples walking through infertility through raising awareness for the miracle that is embryo adoption, as well as support to families with children adopted as frozen embryos as they raise their precious kiddos.

A final word of encouragement for all our EASCP families, going off my personal experience with our two adoptions and two donor families, is that your relationship with your donor family grows and blooms through continuing to build connection. Send photos regularly and update them on new, fun, and exciting things about your kiddo or that your family has been up to. Do your part in helping to establish relationships between all parties founded in mutual love and support.

I know that the day we get to meet each of our donor families I will be so excited for my boys getting to make their own connections with their bio families, but I will also be ecstatic to get to be with our donors for myself as well because of the abundance of gratitude I feel towards them and the friendships we have built with each other. And that all begins with planting seeds of connection through the updates you pass along through The Bridge Project.

That’s exactly where it started for our family and I am forever thankful for having such a special way to connect and keep in touch until the day we entered into open adoptions with each of our families. So, trust the process and continue to write and share and I pray for each of your families and the relationships between donors and adoptees to grow in love and be blessed.“

With love to you all,

Jen Lowell

You can write Jen a note of thanks here if you like