NightLight Inc. Agency

November is Adoption Awareness Month! Nightlight wants more people to be able to help the orphans worldwide who long for a family of their own . . . especially the children who have a harder time getting a family: they may be over 10, or maybe they just need some surgery so that they can live a full, rich life. And they would LOVE to have a family of their own.

Can you help us? Beginning November 1, 2010, Nightlight will be holding its first online auction to raise much needed funds to help orphans worldwide. Scholarships will be provided by Nightlight to families who want to adopt an older child or a child with a special need.

But we need your support!

How You Can Help:

Donate
We need Auction items to add to our auction. Can you donate a vacation getaway, offer an interesting experience (like a flight over the countryside or an afternoon of sailing), a business or personal service, tickets to sporting or entertainment events, or anything else that sounds fun to bid on? This is the month before Christmas so we hope we’ll have lots of bidders doing some Christmas shopping to benefit orphans. But we need to hear from you right away. Please click here to Donate.

Be a Sponsor
Contact us by email (kathryn@nightlight.org) or give us a call at (714) 693-5437 to take advantage of promotional opportunities for your business or to pledge your individual support. We’ll be happy add your company’s logo and link to your web site to draw more people to your business.

Tell Your Friends
Do you know someone who would be interested in supporting our cause? Please share the news of the online auction with your friends so they can be part of the excitement. Refer a Friend to our auction so they can get involved.

If you have any questions, please give us a call at (714) 693-5437.

Thank you in advance for your continued support! We look forward to your item donation and online bids!

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 29680

If you have ever thought you might like to adopt but don’t know where or how to start or how to raise the money you need for adoption, this event is especially for you.

The speaker will be Gerald Clark, co-founder of Home for Good Foundation. Home for Good has helped hundreds of Christian families move towards launching adoption ministries in churches all across America. They are also helping families in the Philippines to adopt, and are helping to set the stage to accomplish domestic adoptions in Uganda. When you come to hear Gerald Clark:

• Learn more about the adoption process.
• Adoption merchandise and books available.
• Talk with experienced adoptive parents.
• For families interested in domestic and international adoptions, Nightlight Christian Adoptions, a local Christian Agency will be available to answer questions.
• Learn more about Home for Good Foundation.

RSVP to malenpapa20@hotmail.com by August 22.

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 here at the South Carolina office on July 24 from 7am-12pm!

You can help us in a couple in a couple of ways:

1. Donate your clean, lightly used items to our fundraiser and we’ll do the rest! Just bring your items to the office located at 1527 Wade Hampton Blvd. Greenville, SC and drop them off under the back, covered porch area. (Please do not bring adult clothing. We are accepting baby clothing donations of course.)
2. Come and shop our sale! All money raised will go toward sending our team to Uganda and the Baby’s Home!

Thank you in advance for your support!

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.

Lori Sealy’s music will delight children and adults alike. Lori is an adult adoptee and a background singer. Becky Edmondson is an adoptive mom.

All children are special. The Children in HIS Image program helps families adopting children who are waiting for loving homes. Come learn about the children and their needs.

Registration details at the Nightlight Event page.

[Post updated with changed venue 1/27/2010]

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 was the first time we had ever done something like this and it was certainly a learning experience. We now have lots of Facebook friends of Nightlight — people who wouldn’t have known about Nightlight otherwise have now been able to learn about us. So in this regard we are definitely winners. We do appreciate all of your support this year and we’ll see what we can do next year to broaden our reach.

– The Staff at Nightlight

This morning, Nightlight passed the 700 votes mark in the Chase Community Giving Campaign that I blogged about 2 days ago. This is great news! We’d love to push past 1000 votes this weekend and keep the momentum going. Here’s what you can do:

• Vote
• Publicize this on your Facebook page
• Do a blog post linking to www.nightlight.org (instructions are there, too)

Remember, the top 100 charities in the voting receive $25,000. We don’t know where we stand compared to other charities, so we’ll keep pushing till the first-round voting ends on Dec. 11. Please help us!

Vote for Nightlight in the Chase Community Giving Campaign on Facebook

How to vote:

• Sign in to your Facebook account or create a new Facebook page (for help please contact Sarah, smartin@nightlight.org)
• While signed into Facebook go to: www.facebook.com/ChaseCommunityGiving
• Search “Nightlight Christian Adoptions, Fullerton CA” – be sure to select the right Nightlight!
• Click “Allow”
• Click “Become a Fan” (if you’re not one already)
• Click “Vote for Charity”
• Use your Facebook page to spread the word!

It really doesn’t take more than a couple of minutes and would help Nightlight greatly. If you have any problems or just want to be sure you’re doing it correctly, please call (714.693.5437) or email Sarah at Nightlight: smartin@nightlight.org.

Thank you for your help!