We don’t know your story, but we know you’ve come here in love, courage, and strength. We also know you face an incredibly significant decision, as you consider making an adoption plan for your child. We hope our profile gives you a glimpse into our life, so you can envision what it might look like to step into each other’s stories.

If we’re lucky enough to be chosen as adoptive parents by you, we promise to give your child a home full of warmth, stability, laughter, and love. Faith will shape our days. Books will fill our shelves. Curiosity and kindness will guide how we parent. And honor, belonging, and gratitude will always surround your place in our family.

Without knowing your name, we pray for you and the road you navigate. Thank you for taking the time to learn about us.

With love,

Lucy & Mark

We met on the first night of graduate school in Boston. A friend had told Mark to look out for this “great Christian girl from the South.” No one had told Lucy to be on the lookout for a hilarious, gregarious guy from New Jersey. Within an hour of meeting, we were deep in conversation and painful-belly-laughing like old friends.

A few months later, Mark asked Lucy on a date, and she went from “maybe” to “madly in love” really quickly. Fast forward a year and a half or so: we married in Lucy’s hometown and then moved into an enchanting Upper West Side apartment in Manhattan. We spent nearly a decade there, our favorite city in the world, before moving to a suburb in New Jersey that still gives us great access to the friends, shows, baseball games, and pizza of New York City but with a bit more space and small-town charm.

As a pair, we have a spirit of adventure and curiosity. We eagerly embrace the uncertainties of life with anticipation and a deep faith, looking for ways that God might be moving in the highs and the lows and in the relationships He weaves together. And we both love being parents and share a vision for growing our family — and connecting with yours — through adoption. “

When we first hoped to become parents after getting married, we ran into delays with infertility for a number of years, and then we unexpectedly learned we would have a biological son, John. Around this time, we also learned we would gain a new nephew, Michael, through adoption. John and Michael both have made our family so much more beautiful, and we would consider it an incredible privilege to grow our family further by becoming adoptive parents. “

If you choose to place your child with us, please know that he or she will be surrounded by love, support, and opportunity. We are so eager to grow our family through adoption and will do so with open arms and overflowing hearts.

We promise that your child will know, through all of life, that he or she is deeply and unconditionally loved. Not based on achievement or behavior, but on being God’s work of art.

We promise to protect your child with all of our being. As screens, social media, and more burden childhood today, we will take the greatest care to protect your child’s mind, heart, and body.

We promise to encourage your child to dream big and to embrace his or her unique gifts and talents. We will be there for every milestone, every triumph, and every challenge.

But above all, we promise to honor and respect the beautiful bond that exists between you and your child. We know the importance of open communication and are committed to maintaining a relationship that honors your role as birth mother and the incredible love that led to adoption.

Thank you for taking a moment to get to know our family. As the Bible says in Numbers 6:24-26, may the Lord bless you and keep you; may the Lord make his face shine on you and be gracious to you; may the Lord turn his face toward you and give you peace.