The Grindles tell the story of how they recently gave birth to a daughter who came to them through embryo adoption.

You can now register for the upcoming Together for Adoption conference (more details here).

[The following guest post is by Martha-Marie Smith of Caroline's Promise.]
Caroline’s Promise has been an established non-profit ministry in North Carolina for five years and is now expanding into South Carolina.  The heart of our ministry is to reclaim hope for orphans.
Every day orphans in the United States and around the [...]

From Together for Adoption’s website:

We are pleased to announce that the next Together for Adoption (T4A) conference will be held at Christ Community Church (Franklin, TN) on October 2-3, 2009. The uniqueness of T4A’s conferences is that they focus primarily on vertical adoption (i.e., God adopting us in Christ), with a secondary and necessary focus [...]

This pro-life ad was rejected by NBC for running during the Super Bowl today. But everyone’s watching it anyway!

HT: ABBA

We are working with a young African American woman who is in the process of relocating to SC, and she would like to place her baby for adoption. Her due date is in June, and she is not sure the sex of the baby she is having.

This evening at 9:30 (EST) Carolina Hope is offering a live, interactive online education course on Transracial & Transcultural Adoptions.

The cost for this course is only $15. You must sign-up at least 2 hours before the course begins. Additional information on signing up and paying can be found at the Transracial & Transcultural Adoptions page. [...]

Together for Adoption and Carolina Hope are sponsoring an Ethiopia mission trip to serve orphans in Shashemene and Addis Ababa this summer. More information (including how to apply to be a part of the 20-person team) can be found at Together for Adoption.

We’ve recently redesigned our poster that encourages women facing an unplanned pregnancy to consider adoption — and we’ve had it translated into Spanish. The posters’ dimensions are 27cm x 42cm.
Do you have access to a space that would likely be seen by a woman facing an unplanned pregnancy? Women’s restrooms, public bulletin boards

Over at the Adoption Guide’s Advice page, I came across a document labeled “Accurate Adoption Language,” which links to a PDF entitled “Positive Adoption Language.” The fact sheet (reprinted from OURS Magazine, May/June 1992), has a fairly complete listing of preferred language (which it calls “positive”) and dispreferred language (called “negative”) for talking about adoption.
In [...]

Heirs with Christ: The Puritans on Adoption by Dr. Joel Beeke is a new book about the Christian theology of adoption. The book’s forward is by Carolina Hope blogger Dan Cruver. (more…)

This evening at 7, Caedmon’s Call will be in concert at Southside Fellowship. This event is part of the Caedmon’s Call Overdressed Tour, which re-unites Derek Webb with the band. I’m writing from Texas, but as far as I know at this moment, the band is in Greenville, seeing the sites and getting ready for [...]

The concert is this week! We’re gearing up for it, and we’d like to ask your help in getting the word out. Because we’re an adoption agency and not a public relations firm, our advertising dollars are limited. In addition to our promotional efforts in churches, on the radio, and here on the web, we’re [...]

(Don’t forget about our benefit concert for Ethiopia orphan care and adoptions, with Caedmon’s Call, on February 29! Order tickets here.)
In January Lisa Prather (Carolina Hope’s Director of International Programs) and Dan Cruver (Director of Ministry Outreach) took a survey trip to Ethiopia. When they got back, Lisa made a slideshow with some compelling photos. [...]

Interest is gathering for the Ethiopia Adoption benefit concert being held in 9 days. Just yesterday I got an email from a friend encouraging me and others to attend! I’ve copied the email below as a reminder to all of you within driving distance of the South Carolina Upstate. Caedmon’s Call and Derek Webb are [...]