About Us

Welcome to our website. We are Phil and Kristie Graves. We have been married for over 2 decades. We met when I became the youth pastor at Faith Baptist Church in Maryland in 2001. Kristie was teaching senior high Sunday school and I thought she was pretty nice from the very beginning.

For several years  my wife and I had been discussing the idea of adoption. In 2017 we adopted our fourth child, Elliana. She is from Aremnia. We adopted our fifth child, Brizzy, from Ukraine in 2022, during the war with Russia.

We have found both girls through a website called Reese’s Rainbow. They advocate for the international adoption of children with special needs.

We have three biological children. Kara, Ethan, and Owen. I am the lead pastor at First Baptist Church of Brunswick, Maryland, and I own All Saints Media, a web and graphic design firm. Kristie has been a respiratory therapist at The Johns Hopklins Hospital in Baltimore since 1999.