Our story begins where the trailhead ends.  
A rocky marriage.
Life pressures.
Infertility.

The deep, dark woods.  We've all been there. 

Good stories, though, always contain a moment of grace. A moment where the narrative arc takes a surprising twist, and bends toward hope.

For us, that exquisite moment of grace took place in an orphanage in Africa where we met and fell in love with a baby boy named Tesfamariam. 

Adoption was our awakening. It's where we discovered a world within our world made up of 4.4 million orphans. As a result, we know we can't go back to life as normal. Instead we feel summoned to a lifestyle of involvement with the "least of these."

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“We may think we know all there is to know about international adoption—isn’t it constantly in the news? Aren’t celebrities doing it? A memoir like From Ashes to Africa reminds us of the uniqueness and poignancy of each family’s journey, of the sorrow and longing that often precedes the discovery of a child, and of a joy sweeter and more miraculous for having been delayed.”

-Melissa Fay Greene, author of "There Is No Me Without You: An Ethiopian Woman’s Odyssey to Rescue her Country’s Children"

“I strongly recommend this book to you. It will make you laugh and cry, but most important, once you put it down you will never be the same again.”

-Tom Davis, author of "Red Letters: Living a Faith that Bleeds"