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Hello! We are the Abbott Family. Our family was blessed with the addition of our 5th child, Isaac, on February 19th, 2023. Soon after his birth we learned of his diagnosis of Down Syndrome. During those early days while we were learning what Down Syndrome even was and how we could help our son, we learned of a family with a nearly identical story that was also blessed to have a son with Down Syndrome. After their son was born, they felt called by God to adopt a little boy with Down Syndrome from Ukraine. The seed for us to adopt a child with Down Syndrome was planted in our hearts and minds, even though we would have never considered it prior to Isaac being born.
Fast forward over a year, we feel God has pressed His will on our hearts to adopt. Our family of 7 is incomplete. We believe we have a son in Armenia with Down Syndrome that is meant to join our family. We want to see God work through him to be able to shine a light so bright to the world around us. We can’t wait to see the miracle that is thousands of miles apart from us right now. We are ready to bring him home! We don’t know the specifics yet, but we are trusting God through this, and we know that He will continue to make each step known to us. God bless!
10/24/2025 — FINAL TRIP in NOVEMBER
The Abbott Family has also received a $2000 EE4 child grant!
The Abbott family has met their $5000 Matching Grant from Reece’s Rainbow!
Jeff and Christine Kuhn first felt called to special needs adoption at the funeral for the daughter of family friends. They loved their daughter fiercely and fought for her to have every opportunity as any typical child would. Inspired by the beautiful life she had lived despite her disabilities, Jeff and Christine realized they wanted to put their faith into action and pursue a special needs adoption. Not having a clue how adoption works, they reached out to a private agency who instructed them they would need to go through foster care. Obviously, this was incorrect information but not knowing any differently, they contacted their local department of social services. After attending the information night, they decided to continue towards certification. Five years and five placements later, their family grew by two. Anthony was officially adopted in 2019 and Sarah in 2021. Sticking with the Noah’s ark theme of two-by-two, Jeff and Christine welcomed biological twins, Eleanor and Margaret, in 2022.
Once again Jeff and Christine felt called to special needs adoption began looking at the waiting children of Bulgaria on Reece’s Rainbow. One boy caught their eye. This child has been waiting for quite some time and is in deteriorating health. They are doing all they can to expedite the adoption process to get him home and healthy as soon as possible. This child does not deserve to be an orphan one more day than necessary. Many people have advocated for this child. It has been a huge blessing for the Kuhn’s to connect with people from all over the U.S. who love this boy and are rooting them on.
10/13/2025 — FINAL TRIP in OCTOBER/NOVEMBER
The Kuhn family has met their $500 matching grant!
The Neri Family is returning to Bulgaria!
Their adoption journeys have had many twists and turns but they are excited to be returning to Bulgaria for 2 amazing little boys.
Joe and Jenna live in NY and have 5 daughters ranging in ages from 6-21. The 2 youngest, Stella and Amelia, were both adopted internationally from China in 2018 and Bulgaria in 2023. They have also been in process for another little girl from China for over 4 years. This has been a heartbreaking and difficult journey with the shut down of China adoptions due to Covid. Before learning that China shut down their international adoptions permanently, Joe and Jenna had already begun to update their home study to bring home another little one from Bulgaria. They are heartbroken about their daughter in China and grieving the loss but feel that God is opening other doors for them with these 2 little boys. Both of the boys they will be bringing home are from the same orphanage as their daughter Amelia and they know that these boys need a loving home as soon as possible.
We are overjoyed to be able to be adding these children to our family. We ask for God to guide us in this journey and they continue to pray for the daughter that they will not get to bring home. We thank you for your prayers for these children from different parts of the world, and the hope that our family will be together soon.
10/13/2025 — TRIP ONE
The Neri family has a $5000 Matching Grant from Reece’s Rainbow! When their FSP reaches $18,852 they’ll receive an additional $5000!
Hello, we are the Colgroves! We are high school sweethearts and we have been married for 7 years! Matthew is a Staff Sergeant in the Texas Air National Guard, which provides him many opportunities to serve our community and country as well as develop meaningful friendships. Krystin works as a Licensed Professional Counselor and values getting to serve others as they develop their mental health and overall well-being. In 2021 we bought our first home and we value being a part of our local church community.
We have each been passionate about adoption since we met as teenagers. We were each raised in environments that supported and encouraged adoption as a beautiful way of supporting children and creating families. We were blessed to have models of domestic and international adoption, which impacted early exposure and normalization of adoption in families.
As we grew up, dated, and eventually married, we knew that adoption would be our “plan A” for expanding our family. Our desire to adopt, particularly from Asia, has only grown stronger over the course of our relationship. We are adopting through Gladney Center for Adoption and we are thankful to be partnering with an agency which is a leader in ethical adoption both domestically and internationally.
We are each passionate about giving back to others, Krystin as a mental health professional and Matthew being in the military, and we look forward to continuing to honor the value of stability in our home through parenting.
We are matched to a precious little girl in Taiwan with physical, mental, and socio-emotional health needs. Any financial support would be greatly appreciated to help us pursue this calling of providing safety and nurturance to this child deserving of a loving home!
9/29/2025 — TRAVELING in LATE OCT
The Colgrove family has met their $5000 Matching Grant from Reece’s Rainbow!
Burdette and Holly Barker first felt the call to adopt a child with disabilities in October 2023, just six months after the death of their daughter, Lily, who was born with multiple disabilities and a rare disease diagnosis. Becoming parents to a child with special needs was not something that either Burdette or Holly had imagined for themselves. It was a complete shock when they found out that their daughter was born with a life-limiting disease that would take her back to her heavenly home at the tender age of 21 months. Although her life was short, Lily showed the Barker family what a beautiful gift it was to care for and raise a child with special needs. After her death, the entire family felt a huge void in their family and started to consider the possibility of adoption. Due to the extensive medical needs of their daughter, Lily, the Barkers felt confident in their ability to help another child with special needs. In October of 2023, Holly was browsing social media when she came across a post by RODS Heroes about a large number of children in Eastern Europe with Down syndrome who needed families. The entire Barker family immediately felt that they were supposed to adopt one of these children. The very next week, they were signed on with an adoption agency and were awaiting their first home study visit! Fast forward 20 months and the Barker family has been matched with a beautiful waiting child listed here on Reece’s Rainbow! They eagerly look forward to meeting her and bringing her home to her loving family!
8/29/2025 — FIRST TRIP COMPLETE
The Barker Family has also received a $2000 EE4 child grant!
The Barker family has met their $5000 Matching Grant from Reece’s Rainbow!
From the very beginning of their marriage, Miles and Elizabeth Adair have felt a deep desire to grow their family through adoption. In fact, the intention to adopt was discussed on their very first date!
After high school, Elizabeth spent several months volunteering in orphanages in Quito, Ecuador. There, she witnessed firsthand how children longed for families of their own—to be cherished, nurtured, and loved. She carried those experiences in her heart and promised herself that one day she would adopt.
Miles also felt this pull early in life. In high school, he was a peer tutor for students with disabilities, and later he worked as a para-educator in the special education department of an elementary school. Those experiences opened his eyes to the incredible love, joy, and light that children with disabilities bring into the world.
After nearly a decade of hoping and praying, the Adair family finally began their adoption journey in September of 2023. Elizabeth saw the instagram stories of RODS Heroes about a large number of children with Down syndrome waiting to be adopted in Armenia. They felt instantly that they had a daughter waiting for them in Armenia and signed their contract with their adoption agency the very next day.
Now, nearly two years later, the Adairs are in the final stages of their adoption and are readying themselves to welcome a beautiful toddler with Down syndrome into their family. They have been matched and have already completed their bonding trip. Together, with their four children, the Adairs are counting down each day until their precious daughter is home. They are so thankful for the support of their family, friends, and community throughout their adoption journey.
8/31/2025 — FIRST TRIP COMPLETE
The Adair Family has also received a $2000 EE4 child grant!
The Adair family has met their $5000 Matching Grant from Reece’s Rainbow!
On their second date, Katie told Aaron that she was in the process to adopt one of two children from India. She told him that she had a passion for adoption and for individuals with disabilities, so much that she was pursuing adoption as a single woman.
Five and a half years have passed since that conversation. Aaron and Katie have now been married for just over two years and their daughter, Chitti, has been home for just over three. The Kueckers have seen how joyful and powerful adoption can be for both parent and child. In fact, it is so powerful that they are pursuing a second adoption from India for a child who has similar needs and disabilities as Chitti. “We feel we are uniquely qualified for taking care of a child with more involved disabilities because we have cared for Chitti over the past few years”, remarks Aaron. He says, “We know exactly which doctors to call and how to navigate our state’s Medicaid system. We already own a wheelchair van, and it’s probably easy to put a second chair in there!”
Meanwhile, Katie is smiling as she remembers telling Aaron about adopting on their second date. It took more years than she planned, but God has sovereignly brought them together to chase this dream of adoption together.
8/29/2025 — COURT PASSED; TRAVEL in LATE SEPTEMBER
Michelle and Steven are beyond excited to complete their family through adoption! They have been married for two years. Michelle was a single mother for over 25 years. She has four adult biological children, four children that God gifted her through adoption and eight grandchildren. She adopted two special needs children from US Foster Care in 2012 prior to her international adoptions. She adopted a little boy from China in 2014 and a pre-teen girl from China in 2016 with Cerebral Palsy. Both China adoptions were with the amazing help of Reece’s Rainbow as a single mom.
Michelle and Steven met later in life. He immediately fell in love with the children. He fell in love with the big family and how close knit and family oriented they were. He became an instant dad and granddad. They married and shortly after began the process to adopt from Bulgaria! They were matched with the most perfect little boy with the biggest chubby cheeks there ever was. They brought him home with the help of Reece’s Rainbow again in September of 2023. They are now in process for their last adoption! They chose Bulgaria again because they fell in love with the culture, architecture and the country while there.
Michelle is able to stay home and school the children. Family is very important to everyone in the family. Brittany is married with five children. Chase is growing his family through a relationship. Chelsea is married with three children. Andrew is growing his family through adoption also (YAY!!!!). Tynsleigh (adopted from China) is now a young adult working on her studies. Trevor (16 yrs old) is working toward being a sports commentator. Arianna (15 yrs old) is working toward being a veterinarian and plans to attend University of Florida. She has participated in Pennsylvania Miss Amazing Pre-Teen Queen for 2022 (pageant for girls/women with disabilities) and is working toward opening her own non-profit to help others with disabilities heal with the power of animals. Brennan (adopted from China) (12 yrs old) participates in dog shows across the upper East coast. He is a top 10 junior for 2023 show season over hundreds of youth. Miles (5 yrs old) is learning his alphabet, colors and shapes.
They are so incredibly grateful and honored to have Reece’s Rainbow on this journey as they grow their family one last time.
Our prayer is that hearts would be moved to help us bring our last little one home. “Let us hold fast to the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful” Hebrews 10:23.
8/8/2025 — FIRST TRIP in LATE AUGUST
The Clark family has met their $5000 Matching Grant from Reece’s Rainbow!
Rachel, a midwestern girl from Missouri, met Andrés, a city, beach boy from Ecuador in college and bonded over music, worship, and their shared faith in Jesus Christ. Married for fourteen years, they’ve long felt called to adoption—a desire that began in conversation on their very first date.
Rachel grew up surrounded by adoption and foster care, and a few years into marriage, they became licensed foster parents. While serving in church ministry together, they walked through the pain of miscarriage, then the joy of welcoming their son, Luca, in 2018.
In 2020, their hearts turned to international adoption. They began pursuing a program in Andrés’ home country, but rising unrest closed that door. In early 2024, they felt led to adopt from Eastern Europe, where they specifically learned about children from the Roma decent. They quickly shifted to Nightlight Christian Adoptions, and have been so grateful for Nightlight’s support.
Shortly after their dossier was registered in July 2024, the Lara family came across a six-year-old girl who immediately captured their hearts. They applied for her without hesitation, deeply believing she was meant to be their daughter. But in November, they learned another family had been chosen.
In the Spring, during a time of prayer, Rachel sensed God asking her to completely surrender the adoption journey… yet again. She stopped continually searching the waiting child lists and became obedient in trusting God to lead in His timing.
Just two weeks later, she came across a post on the Reece’s Rainbow Facebook group. Adoptive mom, Kim Carter, shared that her daughter had been diagnosed with a brain tumor, forcing them to step away from a recent referral. Kim included the Reece’s Rainbow link to the little girl they had been matched with… the child they had to let go of… the same little girl the Lara’s had applied for months earlier.
Rachel immediately contacted their agency and reached out to Kim, sparking a special connection. Kim became a daily encouragement as the Lara’s resubmitted paperwork and made their desire clear to the NGO in Eastern Europe.
After 52 days of uncertainty and back-and-forth communications, the Lara’s received the news they had long prayed for: on June 30, they were officially matched with the little girl they had never stopped believing was theirs.
The journey ahead is still unfolding, but the Lara’s are confident in God’s perfect timing. They are full of gratitude, awe, and hope—believing with all their hearts that this precious girl is meant to be their daughter.
7/17/2025 — TRIP ONE in AUGUST
Seth and Beth Lewis are adopting a sweet little girl and a spirited little boy from Eastern Europe.
Adoption was always something they felt passionately about—Beth’s dream as a child was to have an orphanage. They met during college and bonded over their enjoyment of music and education and both loved teaching kids in both classroom and private settings.
They got married in 2016, thinking they would have biological kids and adopt later on. When having biological kids became elusive, they decided they did not want to wait any longer to adopt. While sifting through adoption programs in various countries, they came across a profile of a little boy with amputations on Reece’s Rainbow.
Beth’s heart tugged for him as she helped care for her younger sister who had just undergone amputations. Beth and Seth decided to pursue adopting that little boy. While it turned out that he already had a family committed to him, Beth and Seth are grateful for how he helped them decide on a country and get the process started. A wide-eyed little girl first stole their hearts and now they are committed to a tenacious little boy as well.
10/2/2025 — COURT PASSED; FINAL TRIP in LATE OCTOBER
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Combined Locks, WI 54113
CLICK HERE to contact us.
Your questions will be directed to the appropriate team member.
