Read more about the Orphans Refuge mission team sent out by Together for Adoption and Carolina Hope Christian Adoption Agency.

Nightlight congratulates Alina, the winner of the Under-19 category in our 5k. Alina is a 13-year-old who came with her mother, Claire, to the event. Alina and her brother were adopted as infants through Nightlight’s Russia Adoption Program.

We’re happy to report on the success of two recent fundraisers for Nightlight Christian Adoptions: the Jabez Cut-a-thon and the 5k Run/Walk for Adoption Awareness.

Nightlight is pleased to announce that our first two families to adopt from Ethiopia are home!
Rocky and Suzanne Clark are the proud parents of Bryson (pictured below). Rocky traveled to Ethiopia for the adoption proceedings, and he and Bryson arrived home on May 24, 2009. (Before the adoption, Bryson was Bekhabil.) Bryson came home as [...]

Sunday, June 7, have your hair cut and styled while raising money for Nightlight’s 15th Annual Summer Tour! (Jabez Salon is in Yorba Linda, CA.)
More details here.

Every year Nightlight brings children to Southern California from orphanages overseas. In past years we have brought children from Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine. This summer we will be bringing children from Taiwan. Excited boys and girls from 6-11 years of age will be joining us for two weeks in July.
Find out more details of this [...]

As part 2 of their “Life: Imagine the Potential” series, CatholicVote.org has put out the following very nicely produced pro-adoption, pro-life spot:

Read the excellent resolution Russell Moore has submitted to the Southern Baptist Convention’s Resolution Committee: “On Adoption and Orphan Care: A Proposed Resolution.”
(HT: Dan)

As you probably noticed from the banner above, Carolina Hope Christian Adoption Agency has been acquired by Nightlight Chrisitian Adoptions of Califorinia. Our office is now the South Carolina branch office of Nightlight. We will continue to offer the same services to children and families.
We are slowly dismantlio our website as all the information becomes [...]

Yesterday, USA Today (online) ran an emotionally-stirring piece about a single mother of three teenagers who became pregnant and chose adoption for the child: “Struggling families look at adoption.”
Openness in adoption is a major theme in the article. The interplay between the financial crisis and an uptick in domestic adoptions (and abortions) is also addressed [...]

The spring 2009 issue of Nightlight Christian Adoption’s quarterly newsletter, “Family Album,” is available for download here (PDF).

Adoption Learning Partners is offering their Lifebooks Course free of charge during the month of May (certificate of completion costs a fee).

On Saturday, May 16, Carolina Hope is sponsoring a run/walk to increase adoption awareness and raise funds for our services to children and families. More details and the registration form can be found at the 5k Run/Walk page.

On Tuesday, April 21 (7-9pm), Carolina Hope Christian Adoption Agency will hold its monthly Adoption Education workshop entitled “Introducing Domestic and International Adoption.” The workshop is free of charge and will be held at Carolina Hope’s office in Greenville, SC. More details at our Adoption Workshops page.
Note that this workshop was originally scheduled for April [...]

Serious.Life Magazine, which I’ve mentioned in a previous post, just published a new issue today. Our blog and services are included in this issue (thanks to the publisher’s generosity), and we encourage you to take a look at the articles in the latest issue.
The magazine is owned and published by a family who have seven [...]

At the end of last week we had the very great joy of sending out the following message from Assistant Director Lisa Prather:
I am writing to let everyone know that our last Carolina Hope baby came home from Guatemala this week.  I’m so happy to be able to say that every child is home with [...]

A few days ago the L.A. Times published an article entitled Thanking her for opening my eyes. The author, Corina Knoll, is ethnically Korean and was adopted as a child by a white family in the U.S.
In the article Knoll reflects on racism in America and how an Iowa school teacher made racism come alive [...]

This Saturday there will be a workshop on Embryo Adoptions in North Carolina, sponsored by Nightlight Christian Adoption’s Snowflakes program (more information at our website here).
Snowflakes Embryo Adoption Seminar
Saturday, March 28, 2009
9:30 - 11:30 AM
South County Regional Library
Conference Room A
5801 Rea Road, Charlotte, NC
Parents and professionals welcome!

Listen to Charlie & Kala’s personal story
Learn about embryo [...]

Wednesday evening at 9:00 (ET) 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. [...]

Carolina Hope is offering a live online course this Tuesday (Mar. 10) about Domesticating an International Adoption in South Carolina. Participation requires a phone and an internet connection.
Please pay and register before Thursday if you would like to participate. More information on the course contents and on registering is available at the course page.