On August 24, at 6 pm, Nightlight Christian Adoptions is holding a free informational workshop on international, domestic, and embryo adoptions at the main branch of the Lexington Library: 5440 Augusta Road Lexington, SC 29072 Please register here.

This November 7, churches across America will be heralding God’s love for the fatherless and calling Christians to “defend the cause of the fatherless.” Go to OrphanSunday.org to find resources for church, Sunday school, small groups, and kids’ classes. Start preparing now so that your church can participate.

Celebrate Adoption, an independent Christian adoption awareness event, is being held this year on Sunday, August 29. There are two events that day: 11 am: Seminar (free) Word of Life Ministires 1027 West Georgia Road Simpsonville, SC 29680 5:00 pm: Seminar & Barbecue Dinner (free) Events at Sapphire Creek 401 North Main Street Simpsonville, SC [...]

We are happy to announce that Tender Hearts Baby’s Home has been licensed, and our team will be traveling there to help continue the setup and provide care for children. Our trip will be from approximately October 22 to October 31. To help raise funds for the trip, we will be hosting a garage sale [...]

This October 1-2, the annual Together for Adoption Conference will be held at the Austin Stone Community Church in Austin, TX. The theme is “The Gospel, the Church, and the Global Orphan Crisis.” Nightlight Christian Adoptions is one of the exhibitors at the conference, and Laura Beauvais-Godwin, director of our SC office, is one of [...]

Over 120 runners and walkers turned out for Nightlight’s second annual 5K  Competitive Run on  Saturday, May 15th in  Greenville, SC. Click here for a recap of the race results. We are grateful to all the participants, volunteers, and sponsors who helped make this adoption awareness event a success!

Nightlight has a Speakers’ Bureau available to speak in Southern California, Colorado, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia. We are available to travel to other states upon special request. We are here to speak on the various topics: • Share the plight of orphans and give your group creative ways to make a difference • [...]

Join Nightlight Christian Adoptions and Children in HIS Image Program for a Chili Dinner & Concert on February 19, 2010. The concert will be held at Woodruff Road Presbyterian Church in Simpsonville, SC from 6:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

We would like to thank all of you who voted for Nightlight in the Chase Community Giving Campaign. The votes have been counted, and Nightlight did not finish in the top 100.

This morning, Nightlight passed the 700 votes mark in the Chase Community Giving Campaign that I blogged about 2 days ago.

You can help Nightlight compete to win a $25,000 donation from Chase Bank – simply by voting for us on Facebook!

Grace Community Church, pastored by John MacArthur, is hosting an “Adoption: For Life” conference this week. Nightlight’s Mary Madison will be speaking 10:30-11:20am on Domestic Adoption. More details and registration are available at Grace Community’s event website. (Registration is $20/person, or $25/couple.)

Matt Thien is giving away a copy of 10 Days 10 Songs Africa. Here’s how you can enter the drawing.

Carolina Hope for Orphans is organizing a Christmas Tour for Ukrainian Orphans; the children will be in the States from December 26 to January 9, and host families in South Carolina (or anywhere within a 2-hour driving distance of Greenville, SC) are needed.

Promotional video for Hope for Orphans’ Your Church and the Orphan all-day workshop on October 17.

Our friends at Hope for Orphans have graciously given us 25 copies of Launching an Orphans Ministry in Your Church to giveaway!

Nightlight is helping to spearhead the all-day workshop, Your Church and the Orphan. The goal of the workshop is to provide church members with the necessary information and tools to explore how your church can effectively minister to orphans and waiting children.

Don’t forget about Together for Adoption’s upcoming conference (I’ve posted about this previously). Our SC Director Laura Godwin will be teaching in one of the break-out sessions. Additionally, there’s a CD-giveaway going on over at Together for Adoption through September 14.

On September 9 at noon ET, Nightlight is conducting an online educational webinar about special needs adoptions from Taiwan and China.

This no-cost luncheon is to give you, the churches’ leaders, the courage and vision to challenge your congregations to take part in an orphan ministry. With your encouragement, your members can attend the all-day workshop on Saturday, October 17th.