Our Story

We are the Borgelt family. Welcome! We are glad to have you here following our adoption journey. Our names are Dan and Amanda and when we began our adoption journey we had three sweet kids: Caleb, Sophie and Levi. Dan is a pastor in the Evangelical Presbyterian Church and Amanda is a full time stay-at-home, homeschooling mom. We have felt led over the past couple of years to expand our family through the miracle of adoption. This was our family when we began our adoption journey in 2013.

Our adoption story began 2 years before this-  a few weeks after the birth of our youngest. I (Amanda) watched the following video and felt God stirring almost immediately.

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From that point forward God began working in our hearts and the circumstances in our lives to prepare us for this journey. We began reading the scriptures and seeing all throughout God's heart for orphans and his commands to his people to care for them.
We became aware of the world's orphan crisis as we discovered the horrifying situations and numbers of orphans around the world.
We read together David Platt's book "Radical" were reminded of the radical call God has placed on our lives and surrendered again to whatever he wills. God reminded us during this season that this Christian walk is one where we give every part of our lives for his glory and that this surrendered life is a life full of abundant joy.
Our hearts began to break for the fatherless. We asked ourselves "How do we respond to all our eyes have been open to and to this ache in our hearts for these little ones?". God answered these questions in a number of ways and began to call us to orphan care through sponsorship and beginning a whole church partnership with an orphanage in Haiti. However we knew that God was calling our family to more than that. He began to clearly lead us to adoption. We have room in our hearts, our home, and our family for more children. So we said "yes" to his call and we committed to following wherever he leads.
Over the past 4 years God has lead us to many places unexpected and trials hard to bear. But he has been faithful and present and we learned more from him through the path we thought initially an unfortunate detour. Our adoption journey began as we pursued 2 children from Ethiopia. You can read through our blog to see how that story played out and how we found ourselves changing directions and countries.
In August 2016 we brought home our son, Noah from China! He has been the biggest source of joy and blessing and we can say with confidence God's ways were always good and purposeful and the hardship of our adoption journey was indeed a blessing.
We are currently working toward bringing home another little one from China. We'd love for you to follow along as we continue to discern where our Lord leads!