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The Beauprez Family

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Who We Are

Shane and Annie Beauprez live and work in our Defiance community. They met here and they continue to raise their kids here too. They have two biological kids Paige and Mason who will welcome their new brother with open arms. They too have been along on this journey to adding a child to their family through adoption. 
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Our Story

Our journey towards adoption started over 20 years ago. 
Before we met, my husband and I separately had an interest in adoption and knew that when we did get married, adoption would be a definite option for how we created a family. Since we have been married, conversations of starting a family always led to adoption. We started our family shortly after marriage, we currently have two biological children ages 13 & 14.   In January of 2011, after the devastating earthquake that hit Haiti, Shane went to serve the people, to help rebuild homes and hearts of those who suffered such great loss. After returning home, we both knew it was time to put our fears aside and to start pursuing adoption. 
Since it is the most common response and honestly, a legitimate question, let me tell you “Why? Why adoption?” We have decided to adopt because we have been called by God to adopt. Our hearts are broken for all the children in the world who do not have families, homes or even food. There are millions of orphans in the world. It is overwhelming to think about. We cannot save them all, but we can save one. March of 2011 we started the process of adoption in Ethiopia. When we started the process of adoption in the country of Ethiopia, we were told a maximum of 2 years from start to finish to bring a child home. One thing is certain in adoption, nothing is ever certain. The country of Ethiopia has drastically reduced the number of children to be adopted over the years and the process has become far more complex. In the last 6 years we prayed and asked God if we should change countries, adopt through foster care, or all together end the journey. We never got a clear answer. We opened our hearts to the possibility of a child from another country with a broken heart at the end of it. At the time we felt very hopeless that the dream that was instilled in our hearts at a very tender, young age to pursue adoption had died. Our hearts were aching. We threw in the towel. 

​Seven months later, we received a phone call from our adoption agency asking if we would be willing to redo our paperwork again as they might have a referral of a child for us within a month. We were blindsided as we were slowly letting go of the hope and dream of another child. After prayer we decided this would be our last go of it and whatever happened, both good or bad, we would trust God’s plan for our life. Fast forward 6 months and after 6 years we are excited to have a FACE! We have a reason WHY we waited and HOPE has been restored to our family. We have endured much in this journey….. heartache, pain, hope-deferred, growth, finding one self, becoming a tighter knit family, a stronger marriage and learning to trust a God who never forsakes us. 
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Over the past 6 years we have incurred much costs as we have had to keep our paperwork up to date every year. We have roughly $10,000 left for travel cost. We thank you for taking time to read our story.  We pray that God will use our story for His glory. ​

Our Journey Thus Far...

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September 1, 2017 
Woke up this morning to this sweet face! We received an update on Teddy and on how he is doing. He is growing so much and going to begin school soon. I hate that I am missing milestones, I want to celebrate with him on his new adventure 🎒✏️📘 These next few months can't go fast enough.
You can help bring him home by following this link: https://inktothepeople.com/moving-mountains
Part of the proceeds will go towards are air fair!
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August 31, 2017
WE OFFICIALLY HAVE A PRELIMINARY COURT HEARING!!! It's set for November 9th! 🎉🎉🎉
As long as things go smoothly (PLEASE BE PRAYING) we should be in country hopefully a few weeks after. With that being said....our tickets to travel to Ethiopia will be very last minute and will be pretty hefty in price.
Over the past 6 1/2 years we have accrued much cost to keep our papers up to date. God has been faithful for every need to be met with some very last minute expenses that arrived along this journey.

It is not easy to ask for help. Something I have had to swallow a lot of pride on with this journey. Without your help I'm not sure we will have the 15k we will need in the next few months. We have prayed ever since we have seen our sweet Teddy's face for God to accelerate the process to bring him home and God has been doing just that! This doesn't leave us much time to put money aside from our paychecks to get that kind of amount of money so soon.
We chose to do a tshirt fundraiser with the quote "Moving Mountains". Let me tell you about Mountains in this journey. First off, 5 years ago when my feet landed on Ethiopian soil I was surrounded by mountains (see my cover photo for pic) Every morning and evening I felt like God was calling me out to the balcony of the guest home to pray and declare proclamations over our child to be. In front of me was a mountain. I don't believe it was an accident that the room me and a few others stayed in was facing this mountain.
Things I proclaimed and prayed over:
1. That our child would have grace while transitioning from his bio parents
2. That our child would be in an ethical orphanage
3. That God would provide the right people to love and care for him until we could reach him
4. That he would be able to attach well to people
5. For good health
YOU GUYS, HE HAS MET EVERY SINGLE GUT WRENCHING, TEAR FILLED PRAYER FOR OUR TEDDY!
I wish I could explain to you all how God has been in every detail of the 6 plus years of getting Teddy to us. One day, when Teddy is ready, I pray he will be able to use his story to restore hope to others! This little boy was not chanced into our family but has been divinely appointed to us. What an honor! ❤️ His little life has been filled with heartache at such a tender young age but we know a God who can heal and move every one of Teddy's mountains.
I have learned one major thing thru this journey, that God often reveals himself on the mountaintop. If we allow to stay close and trust him in the process. Some days were ugly folks, some days I had nothing but trust in Him and other days I was mad that what I had "planned" for my life didn't match up with Gods. For years my Hope was deferred and my heart was aching. I have felt so ashamed at my thoughts that Satan had lied about during the process to creep in.....being angry with God and pushing people away so that they wouldn't see my ugly heart. He is healing these areas in my life.
I guess these "Moving Mountains" shirts aren't just about the Beauprez story. It's about all of our stories and journeys we our embarking on. We all have them! Maybe not in the physical but emotionally or spiritually?!
Mountains (the object hindering us from something) can be used and was used in the Bible to worship on top of and for sacrifices being made. It's time friends that we allow our mountains to be set to worship and sacrifice! He is a God we can trust! I'm positive of this! Good or Bad in life he can be trusted! Somedays our hearts and minds can feel ugly but we can sacrifice our emotions to worship the one who deserves all the praise! Waiting for a dream to come to fruition is hard. So hard. But when we allow God to take the many places of our hurting hearts and hold them until joy comes, we give up our rights and plans and give them to Him. I would love to see my people with shirts of Hope and Proclamations for their lives as a representation that GOD IS GOOD AND THAT HE CAN AND WILL MOVE MOUNTAINS!
A little about the fundraiser:
•this will run for 2 weeks after 2 weeks they will be shipped out after that.
•they will be shipped straight to you
•you can choose quality of shirt and colors. YOUTH SIZES AVAILABLE TOO!
•the long sleeve shirt/hoody with moving mountains down the arm will be down the center of arm (graphic designer had to move it in order for you to see it)
Words cannot describe the amount of appreciation and love we have for so many of you! Your love, support, encouragement, prayers and financial support mean the world to our family!
​This fundraiser will run for 2 weeks, till Sept 14th!
This link below is for a different design not pictured 👇
inktothepeople.com/moving-mountains-ls

Fast forward to summer of 2017
Fundraising efforts have been accelerated and we are counting the days until a court date arrives. 
January 27, 2017 
The day the call came in... REFERRAL DAY! The day the photo of this amazing boy dropped in the hands of his new parents. They day friends and family had been praying for for a very long time. They now have a sweet face, tiny hands, two ears, a little body and all the rest of him to pray over and to rejoice knowing the specifics of. What a day it was. They said YES to this little boy. He'll be a Beauprez forever. 
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