To Whom It May Concern:

My wife and I have been asked to tell you about our good friends. We first met them through a friend at our church. Soon after, he joined another father and I to help coach my oldest son’s basketball team. He helped coach the basketball team for three years. During that time, she helped coach my daughter’s soccer team, and they both were Sunday school teachers for my youngest son and daughter at our church. Throughout the past three years, we have spent so much time with them at activities with children and also socially with our children. This gave us a great opportunity to witness their love for others and their willingness to serve and how that will translate into the traits of being great parents.

The friendship I have developed with him has been one of the greatest blessings in my life over the past five years. Coaching young children requires a lot of patience, self-control and good communication. He demonstrates all of these qualities, and I am grateful he has influenced my childrens’ lives as a coach and a Sunday school teacher. The most impressive quality that he possesses is the humility to pursue wisdom from others. During my daughter’s soccer practices, he and I would often walk around the soccer fields and talk. He always had good questions to ask about fatherhood and about being a husband. His desire to learn and seek wisdom reveals he has been preparing for fatherhood for years and I believe he is going to be an awesome father for his children.

She is a joy to be around, and we became great friends through our mutual careers in the nursing field, having both played collegiate soccer and intramural basketball, and also our mutual love for nature, beauty, hiking, and time together. As a nurse, she works hard to love and serve her patients and co-workers well by getting to know them and meeting their needs. She is a wonderful coach and role model for my daughter’s soccer and basketball teams. She is constantly teaching, encouraging, and building up the girls, both on and off the field and court. As a coach's wife, she supports and loves him so well. She has attended many basketball games, even my daughter’s and younger son’s games as well, to cheer for them and support them. I believe she will be an amazing Mother, and I am so excited for this opportunity for her. I really enjoy spending time with she because she is always kind, patient, and full of joy. I always feel encouraged and built up after spending any amount of time with her. Together, they radiate the joy, love, and service in every aspect of their lives, and we are so blessed to have them as friends.

Their willingness to serve the children in their community, their character and love for others, and their desire to learn more about parenthood all stems from their faith. We have been so blessed to have them in our lives and in our children’s lives. We are so grateful for their love, service and wisdom at a young age, and they motivate us to be better parents and members of our church and community. They are going to be great parents and we could not more strongly recommend them to you as parents pursuing adoption.