HI! We are Kyle and Naomi Brown. We're thankful you're taking a moment to hear about our story. We had always planned on having kids but wanted to wait until after Kyle finished graduate school. We first started trying to get pregnant back in 2017. We struggled for many years to conceive naturally and tried fertility treatments without success.

We basically got burned out and wanted to take a break for a while. This break turned into years filled with uncertainty and thoughts that we might not ever have children and that God might not want us to be parents.

We had many discussions about potentially doing IVF treatments or just facing the reality of not having kids at all. We battled with these thoughts until we heard about the adoption and foster care initiative that our church was starting. We attended an interest meeting and both felt God might call us to become adoptive parents.

“We prayed and fasted and felt God was calling us to adopt; we were completely at peace with this decision. It was exciting but overwhelming initially resulting in us dragging our feet and never taking our first step. We heard a sermon at our church where our pastor said something that really spoke to our situation. He said, "Pray, guess, go". This was really an affirmation for us to trust God and be obedient and it gave us clarity to finally start the process of becoming adoptive parents.”

We are so blessed to have the opportunity to help a mother and baby in need. This is a great representation of what God has done for us as Christians and what we, as Christians, should strive to do for others.

Hi, we are Jeremiah & Elizabeth Dantz! I have dreamed of being a mother for a long time. Similarly, I have always wanted to adopt. I knew that God had placed this desire in my heart. I am so convinced that this is what I am meant to do.

When I think of how God has loved us and adopted us as His children, my most natural reaction is to extend that same love to adopt a child.

While my heart has always known adoption would be a part of my future, Jeremiah and I also hoped to have a biological child. Initially, we planned to have a biological child first and then adopt. However, that was not God's plan.

We have tried for approximately two years to grow our family. Infertility has certainly been an interesting journey. It was one that I did not want. Despite the heartbreak month after month, God's goodness has overflowed. Facing infertility and all it meant was a mountain I did not believe I could climb. The thought of never bringing a child into this world was crushing.

But God.

“God mourned with me and held my heart. I knew that the love I would have for an adopted and biological child would be no different but God really solidified that in my heart. God has chosen our baby from before the foundations of the world to be a Dantz: nothing can change that. Because of the love God has placed in our hearts for this baby, He is using us as instruments to bring them into our family just like every other parent.”

If I never birth a child from my womb, I am at total peace. Adoption is not our "backup" option. It has always been a part of God's plan for our life, and it is beautiful. Adoption is not or never will be less than. We cannot wait to see God grow our family through adoption!

A little over 4 years ago God blessed us with our 4th daughter, little Nova. Even though our lives were full with our older kids, God crossed our paths with a 3 week old beauty that needed a family and home. After a lot of prayer, we were able to invite this blessing into our lives and home and since then have been forever changed.

Trust, faith, compassion and willingness are the words to describe our journey.

Trusting that we were the right family since we were older and already blessed with 3 other children.

Faith that He would fight the battle of adopting and the chance it might not go through.

Compassion for an innocent child in need of a home and loving her as our own.

Willingness to give a child a Christ-center home in spite of the challenges that may come.

“We are so thankful that our paths crossed with P4P. The Dinner & Tea Fundraiser was such a beautiful night that we will remember and will be apart of our beautiful journey of adopting our sweet Nova. The Holt House was gorgeous and the food was great. So many donated and came to help us and we are truly thankful. Christy is a blessing and we are thankful to God for putting this ministry on her heart.”

We were able to receive close to $4000.00 that was raised that night to help with the expensive adoption process. Our hearts are forever knitted with her’s. Once again thanks so much to all who helped, prayed and supported us on our journey. Our sweet Nova is now seven years old, so hard to believe! She is the sweetest little girl you could ever meet. We couldn't be more proud to call her our daughter. Nova has recently become an aunt and she is known as Aunt Sissy to her nephew. It's been a joy to watch her grow to love the Lord and we look forward to this new chapter of her teaching and investing in her nephew the way we've all invested in her. We all are crazy about Nova and we thank God everyday for orchestrating our love story!

Through it all God has guided us. While we are beyond grateful for the help of P4P, my prayer is that others will have the faith to listen to God in whatever way He speaks. Whether it is by giving, praying, spreading awareness, or maybe even taking in a child as your own. Our story is a testimony of God's goodness!

God began to place a desire for us to adopt many years ago, and we waited for the Lord’s timing. In May 2020, the Lord confirmed in our hearts to begin taking steps of faith towards the adoption process.

We began doing our own fundraisers and were able to raise some funds, but understood that much more was needed. After our home in Honduras flooded in a hurricane and we lost almost all of our belongings, we were in survival mode and had to put our adoption fundraising on hold. We returned to North Carolina for much needed rest, when Christy Benson came into the picture.

Christy was an acquaintance in church, but we didn’t know her very well. She approached us and shared her heart for helping adoptive families raise the needed funds to bring their child home. Honestly at first, we weren’t quite ready to do any type of fundraising as we had just lost our home; but she was determined to help propel us forward. We didn’t know at that time the blessing she would be to our family.

She is a woman on a mission and has a calling to help adoptive families raise the necessary funds to adopt. Many people don’t realize the hardship it is to raise funds for an adoption.

“Most adoptions cost anywhere from $25,000 -$40,000. It’s incredibly difficult and time demanding to do all the necessary paperwork and education courses plus raise the funds.”

In January 2021, Christy launched our puzzle fundraiser and in 48 days the Lord used her to encourage an army of people to raise a little over $13,000 for our adoption! It was made attainable and affordable at $25.00 a puzzle piece. We were blown away in how the Lord provided this money and how he used Christy in such a pivotal way in our adoption journey. She took the load completely off of us and did all the legwork due to the fact that we had just been through so much trauma after the hurricane. She did the research, set up the Venmo account, reached out to all the contacts she could think of, advertised it, counted money, did the puzzle, and so much more!

Christy has such a giving heart. She has become such a dear friend to our family through this process and is continuing to walk this adoption journey with our family. She continues to ask how the process is going and how she can pray. We are so thankful for her. We believe God has great plans for Plead 4 the Privilege and we look forward to watching the Lord continue to work in and through Christy and her new ministry.

For Sandy and I, adoption was something we talked about before we ever got married. You know how you have those “deep” conversations when you have been seriously dating for a few years? Our plan was to have 3 biological children and then when they got older maybe adopt or consider foster care. Little did we know that God has His own plan for what we thought was the perfect plan.

After Sandy and I got married we bought our first home, settled down for a bit and before we knew it she was expecting. We were blessed with our daughter in 2019. We began to think of having our 2nd biological child, then Covid hit. We found ourselves in our first shutdown. Little did we know this would spark the opportunity to watch a movie that God had in store for us to watch.

As we looked for things to do while being home, we came across a movie called “Unplanned”. The story follows a woman who is the director of a Planned Parenthood facility. Her view of abortion was forever changed while in the room helping with the procedure. She sees this beautiful unborn life fight for its life on the monitor as the abortion is completed. Her heart breaks and her life is changed. As Sandy and I watched with tears in our eyes, we felt the Holy Spirit grab our hearts. We both looked at one another and said we need to take action.

After watching the movie we started to pray. If it were Sandy’s choice we would have signed up to adopt the next day, but I (Tyler) did not have peace about pursuing adoption right away. We went to God’s Word looking for wisdom, sought counsel from amazing spiritual mentors on how to proceed, and that God would direct our steps to be a voice for the unborn and their mama. We watched Unplanned in March and by August had signed up for the introductory class.

After going through the preliminary classes with an adoption service, we agreed to move forward with a domestic infant adoption. We knew going into this process that the cost for adoption was roughly $34,000.00 and that was not including attorney fees, out of state expenses, clearances, etc. I remember looking at Sandy and saying we had nowhere near $34k in the bank to pay for this adoption! “BUT God, You asked us to be obedient, so we are stepping out in complete faith.”

As we worked through the classes, training, and endless books we felt the Lord continuing to give us peace each step of the way. We began doing fundraisers, saving every penny we could, and sharing our journey with those in and out of our community. In doing so we had an overwhelming amount of support come from our family, friends, and our brothers and sisters in the body of Christ. As each bill was due, the Lord continued to provide right down to the dollar. There were several times where Sandy and I looked at one another and just smiled because God just continued to provide right before our eyes. We call these our God stories, because they are 100% from Him and He gets all the glory.

One of these amazing partners was Mrs. Christy with Plead 4 The Privilege. We had heard about her ministry and how she was coming alongside families who are adopting and helping them raise the money they needed. We started our puzzle fundraiser and within 35 days we had a completed puzzle and raised over $13,000.00. This was unbelievable as it was the money needed to complete what we owed to our adoption agency and had additional funds ready to go towards what money would be owed upon future placement. Little did we know just how soon we would be placed.

“I remember it like it was yesterday, we got a call from our case worker saying they had a birth mom from out of state who was expecting a little boy and was due in 3 weeks. The birth mom was working with an agency in her state and wanted to partner with ours to give the birth mom more families to choose from. We got this call on August the 3rd and we had till Thursday August 5th to give our decision on an out of state adoption. After prayer and fasting, we again came back to the Lord who had asked us to be obedient and to give our worries to Him. “Our hearts and hands are open to whatever You bring us to and through!” We said yes!”

On August 8th, we were standing in the kitchen, when Sandy’s phone rang and it was our social worker. We had been chosen!! A wave of emotions overwhelmed us as we could not wrap our minds around what we were just told. We dropped to our knees and began praying. “Here we go, Lord. All for Your glory.” At that point we went into full out nesting mode and got ready to be parents again!

Less than 2 weeks later, we got the call our son had been born, and he will be discharged in 2 days. We got to meet birth mama and sit with her for over 5 hours that day, and we are forever changed. She is so strong and beautiful. And we praise her for choosing life for her son, in the midst of unimaginable circumstances. Holding our son for the first time that day, I remember feeling that proud feeling of being a dad again. I held that little boy and connected with him in that moment in a way I cannot explain. We praise God for the beauty in the brokenness. All of these emotions are still so hard to process and voice. That’s why all we can say is even in the pain and brokenness, God, You are good.

We remained away from home, out of state, for 2 weeks until the appropriate paperwork was signed and approved to bring our son home. We went through a very deep valley in those 2 weeks, and praise God for our village and the body of Christ surrounding us with prayer and financial support. God is faithful. So many friends sending us money for supper, coffee, gas, hotel expenses, groceries...it was humbling and powerful.

Additional costs were added to our total amount because of our adoption becoming an interstate adoption. We now owed almost $10,000 more. Because of everything our community had already done, we both agreed that we were not going to do anymore fundraising, or share about our incurring expenses. God knew the need and we were going to continue trusting. Mrs. Christy reached out to us in October, checking on us (which she did almost every week) and asked how we were doing financially. We shared with her our expenses, and she did a financial drive over Thanksgiving, Thanks+Giving=Change. She was able to raise a considerable amount from business owners who matched individual gifts. Mrs. Christy asked us for a current statement in December and had peace about a certain number. When we sent her our statement it was $21 lower than the number God had given her peace about. Wow!!!! Jehovah Jireh – God WILL provide. And He did. He does!

We are waiting for the court to assign a hearing date to finalize our adoption. We have an open adoption, which means we have a relationship with birth mama and it is beautiful. Praise God!

Mrs. Christy is a cornerstone in our adoption journey, and we thank God for her obedience to His calling, and coming alongside adoption families to help relieve the financial costs.