Infertility – Dave & Patti Schatzmann

Early in our marriage, my husband Dave and I were told that we had no chance of having children on our own.Our doctor offered many expensive options that we could attempt but made it clear that there was no guarantee of a pregnancy. I was working as a Labor & Delivery nurse at the time, helping women deliver babies every day. While I was happy for them, it was also a brutal reminder of what we could not experience. 

After praying and discussing our situation we decided to pursue adoption. We were active members of Christian Chapel and I was volunteering on a regular basis with Crisis Pregnancy Outreach so we had witnessed the beauty of adoption. Even that process involved pain and waiting. We endured two failed adoptions before we were blessed with our daughter Amanda. 

Ten months after Amanda was born we found out we were miraculously pregnant with our daughter, Amy, with no medical intervention at all.  

When people hear our story they often say, “Oh that always happens, you adopt, relax and get pregnant.”

But our story is a medical miracle. We both endured testing and received diagnoses that without intervention pregnancy was impossible. We never conceived again after Amy. She was God’s miraculous gift.After Amy was born, God blessed us one more time with our son, Cole, through foster care and then adoption. He just so happens to be Amanda’s half sibling.  

29 years ago, we were hurting and wondering if our dreams for a family would ever become a reality. God who stepped in and created our family through three miracles: adoption, a miraculous pregnancy, and foster care!

Wednesday, May 3rd

5:15pm - 6:30pm I Family Dinner

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Wednesday May 10th

5:15pm - 6:30pm I Family Dinner

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Sunday, May 14th I 9:15am & 10:45am I Mothers Day

Wednesday, May 17th

5:15pm - 6:30pm I Family Dinner

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6:00pm - 8:00pm I Homegroups I Chapel Youth D-Groups I Chapel Kids I Nursery [get involved]

Wednesday, May 24th

5:15pm - 6:30pm I Family Dinner

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Join us for a family meal served on Wednesday nights from 5:15pm - 6:30pm. 

Lent Services/ The Annual Business Meeting, Chapel Youth and Chapel Kids run from 6:30pm - 7:30pm. Nursery is available. 

Maggie Toupin is the Executive Director of Crisis Pregnancy Outreach (CPO). Maggie is relatively new to this role at CPO, but God has prepared her for this position from an early age with a love for adoption. She even served as a babysitter for CPO events when she was a teenager.

When Maggie met her husband, they both believed they were open to adoption when they were ready to have children. However, the Lord had other plans for them. Their first entry into parenting was as emergency foster parents. Maggie and her husband said ‘yes’ to what they thought was an eleven day stay with a child that turned into a forever family. 

They additionally have one biological daughter; they fostered their daughter’s sister until she reunified with her dad and adopted her little brother. Their journey opened their eyes to the need for safe and healthy families.

Crisis Pregnancy Outreach serves women, babies, and families affected by unexpected or crisis pregnancies. CPO provides a support system for mothers during the pregnancy, as they make a decision to parent or place their child for adoption, and then for as long as the mother and baby continue to need counseling or support.  

Maggie says, “The majority of our mothers want to parent their children and we offer services, training, and support, so that they can parent successfully. For our mothers who are not in a season of life that they wish to parent or are unable to parent, we offer adoptions with an incredible amount of pre and post placement support. As a ministry to our birth mothers, we want to provide them with strong families. We want their children to have healthy adoptions, and we offer post placement support to our families and adoptees as well.”

Crisis Pregnancy Outreach exists to glorify God by caring for moms and their children. Maggie’s prayer for this season is that they can continue to successfully make our community aware of their services, so they can serve more moms and babies.