My name is Elizabeth Bordeaux, and I am the Executive Director of Flourish Adoption Ministries. In 2014, after experiencing our own adoption journey, I felt a strong calling to create a different kind of adoption agency. I, along with a fellow adoptive mother, decided to start serving hopeful adoptive families. At that time, we knew we wanted to work with adoptive families, providing them with support, encouragement, and education throughout the process.
By 2017, we felt the Lord expanding our vision to include support for expectant mothers. We recognized a significant gap in the resources and support available to these women and wanted to address this need by offering ethical adoption education and lifelong support. Our goal was to elevate the concept of open adoption, fostering a relational experience between adoptive families and birth families. We strive to continue to create an environment where both sides of the adoption triad can thrive together. In 2024, we changed the name of the organization to better encompass our hope for every family we serve—to see them Flourish and create a beautiful adoption story.
In Decision Making - Each decision we make should be a step further along the journey God has laid out for us.
At Home - Consider how you spend your time, resources, energy, spiritual gifts, and understanding of God. Everything we have was meant to bring God glory.
At Work - Putting God first with our work can be the catalyst others need to want to get to know Him.
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• Jesus led by serving and loved by serving.
• Serving others and humility go hand in hand.
• To be a servant means you genuinely need to care for people—keeping your hearts, ears and schedules open for divine appointments.
• No task was ever beneath Jesus and no person was ever unworthy.
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• We don’t need to have all the answers—what’s more important is being present.
• Comfort others by sharing how God has comforted you.
• "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.” -2 Corinthians 1:3-4
• Truth inspires change. God’s word changes us and has the potential to change others through us.
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• Integrity means being honest, whole, and undivided.
• Be honest with yourself.
- Do I say I will do things that don’t get done?
- Do I make excuses for not following through?
- Do I substitute words when actions are needed?
• Our integrity is priceless, the choices we make matter.
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Outreach Coordinator
Case Worker
Becca grew up in Easley, SC, returning there after attending the College of Charleston. She considers herself a "forever newlywed" with her husband, and spends most of her free time redecorating their home and reading—always with coffee in hand. Becca loves connecting with the community + sees this position as one of her biggest answered prayers.
Elyse was born and raised in the Upstate of SC and will always be ever loyal to her alumni, Clemson University—Go Tigers! She loves spending time with family, friends, and her golden retriever, "Finley Jo." She enjoys working with and supporting expectant and birth mamas throughout their adoption journey.
Embryo Coordinator / Operations Coordinator
Executive Director
Anna lives with her husband and daughter in Greenville, SC. She and her family enjoy the upstate and everything it has to offer. Anna loves serving families in her role at Flourish and feels God has given her a heart to help families thrive.
Elizabeth grew up in the Upstate of SC, where she still resides today with her husband and their two children. Elizabeth loves to read in her free time (thrillers are her favorite) and also enjoys playing 'Mahjong' monthly with a group of friends. Adoption is deeply woven within the Bordeaux's story and Elizabeth loves being able to get to know so many other families whose lives have been touched by adoption in some way.
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