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.

At this adoption workshop, Nightlight Christian Adoptions will present basic information about international adoption, domestic adoption, and embryo adoption. Topics will include understanding the advantages of different adoption programs, preparing for the adoption home study, and educating yourself about adoption.

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.

Nightlight Christian Adoptions will be an exhibitor at the 2009 Together for Adoption Conference, held October 2-3 in Franklin, TN. The conference goal is to further mobilize and equip Christians to care for orphans in the name of Jesus.

Help Nightlight Christian Adoptions by participating in this grocery and gas payback program.

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.