So, instead of sharing recent photos, I'll share images and words from their home.
Blessed. That says it all. This family is keenly aware that God has blessed them, with each other, with love, with joy.
Ken and Becky have made it a personal discipline to choose joy. When they learned that they would be unable to conceive children, they chose joy. They also chose to adopt. Through this process, God blessed them with two precious children through domestic open adoption. Kaden and Elaina's first parents came from various backgrounds, including alcohol and drug use. Kaden and Elaina's first moms chose life, and then they sacrificially shared that life with Ken and Becky.
For the past 12 years, Ken and Becky have loved and equipped these children in the shelter of their home. They have breathed life into them. They are guiding them through the shoals of learning disabilities. For a time, Becky homeschooled them.
Today at 12 and 10, Kaden and Elaina are loving, funny, delightful children.
They are currently in 6th and 4th grades at the inner-city eSTEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) school in Little Rock, Arkansas, where Becky serves as the reading teacher for the 5th grade. Yesterday we visited the school that is bustling with energy and learning. Becky is also working on a master's degree in teaching.
Ken has served for nearly two decades with various military groups, where he has worked as an aide-de-camp to a general as well as in many other administrative and logistical roles. He is devoted to his family.
Blessed. That says it all. This family is keenly aware that God has blessed them, with each other, with love, with joy.
Ken and Becky have made it a personal discipline to choose joy. When they learned that they would be unable to conceive children, they chose joy. They also chose to adopt. Through this process, God blessed them with two precious children through domestic open adoption. Kaden and Elaina's first parents came from various backgrounds, including alcohol and drug use. Kaden and Elaina's first moms chose life, and then they sacrificially shared that life with Ken and Becky.
For the past 12 years, Ken and Becky have loved and equipped these children in the shelter of their home. They have breathed life into them. They are guiding them through the shoals of learning disabilities. For a time, Becky homeschooled them.
Today at 12 and 10, Kaden and Elaina are loving, funny, delightful children.
They are currently in 6th and 4th grades at the inner-city eSTEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) school in Little Rock, Arkansas, where Becky serves as the reading teacher for the 5th grade. Yesterday we visited the school that is bustling with energy and learning. Becky is also working on a master's degree in teaching.
Ken has served for nearly two decades with various military groups, where he has worked as an aide-de-camp to a general as well as in many other administrative and logistical roles. He is devoted to his family.
Above the fireplace mantel in their family room, Ken and Becky have hung a word collage that captures their family's values and special moments.
What is also evident in this family is their love for God--in how they welcome people, in how they love each other, in how they view themselves.
They are truly a blessed family.
What is also evident in this family is their love for God--in how they welcome people, in how they love each other, in how they view themselves.
They are truly a blessed family.
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