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.

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

[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 [...]

We now have a calendar on our website to make it easier to keep track of the adoption education events coming up. See it here.

Dr. Karyn Purvis, author of The Connected Child, is the featured speaker at the Connected Child Conference: Bringing Hope and Healing to Your Family, March 6-7 at Calvary Baptist Church in Winston-Salem, NC. More details at The Connected Child website.
I have heard Dr. Purvis’s book highly recommended as a resource for parents of adopted children, [...]

Carolina Hope is offering a live online course this Thursday (Feb. 19) 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.

Carolina Hope’s director, Laura Beauvais-Godwin, will be speaking during a break-out session at the Together for Adoption conference in October. In addition, Carolina Hope will be an exhibitor at the conference.

This year’s Guatoberfest is an adoptive families cruise October 5-9. More details at Guatoberfest.

Carolina Hope is offering a live online course tomorrow (Dec. 9) about Domesticating an International Adoption in South Carolina. Participation requires a phone and an internet connection.
Please pay and register today if you would like to participate. More information on the course contents and on registering is available at the course page.

Together for Adoption has posted the audio from their Nov. 1 conference. Check it out at their 2008 Conference Audio page. The audio titles are:

Jason Kovacs and Maridel Sandberg - “Conference Welcome and the Christian Alliance for Orphans’ Vision for Orphan Ministry”
Dan Cruver - “Adoption in God’s Story of Redemption”
Rick Phillips - “The Good News [...]

Carolina Hope is offering a live online course this Thursday (Nov. 6) about Domesticating an International Adoption in South Carolina. Participation requires a phone and an internet connection.
Please pay and register today or Wednesday if you would like to participate. More information on the course contents and on registering is available at the course page.

Open adoption is a frightening or strange idea to many people. I remember talking to a friend whose sister had recently adopted — with an open adoption. My friend thought that the openness was unnecessary and probably a bad idea. This from a well-educated, sophisticated man.
One of the goals of our Openness in Adoption workshop [...]

From our Workshops and Events page:
The Vine Community Church in Taylors, SC, is hosting an Adoption Awareness Night on Sunday, November 9 (5-9pm). There will be dinner and speakers (adoptive parents, adopted persons, and birthmothers). More information is available at Child of the King’s website. Please RSVP to Katie.M.Nyblom@gmail.com or 864-430-4367.

Dan Cruver of Together for Adoption will be speaking in the 9:30am service and 11am Sunday School this Sunday (October 26) at Woodruff Road Presbyterian Church in Simpsonville, SC. Carolina Hope’s Laura Godwin will be there as well with information about Carolina Hope’s adoption services and also embryo adoption.

Jason Kovacs of the ABBA Fund will participate in the Oct. 23 online workshop entitled Financing an Adoption.