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 [...]

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

You can now register for the upcoming Together for Adoption conference (more details here).

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 [...]

[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 [...]

Carolina Hope will present an online education class on Ethiopia Adoption and Health Issues. A mother of Ethiopian children (who is also an adoption professional) will join us as well another adoptive mother who has specialized in the adoption of children with special needs.

From Together for Adoption’s website:

We are pleased to announce that the next Together for Adoption (T4A) conference will be held at Christ Community Church (Franklin, TN) on October 2-3, 2009. The uniqueness of T4A’s conferences is that they focus primarily on vertical adoption (i.e., God adopting us in Christ), with a secondary and necessary focus [...]

The February issue of Serious.Life Magazine, published today, features three of Carolina Hope’s past blog posts, as well as a half-page ad for our agency. Brent Riggs, the magazine’s creator, generously donated this space to us.

If you’ve been frustrated in the past that our blog’s sidebar menu (on the right) disappears sometimes, the problem is fixed. (But if it’s not fixed for you, please let me know: webmaster (at-sign) CarolinaHopeAdoption (dot) org.) In the past, this problem has potentially affected the 15% of our readers who come to the blog [...]

This pro-life ad was rejected by NBC for running during the Super Bowl today. But everyone’s watching it anyway!

HT: ABBA

U.S. Rep. Bob Inglis signed on to a letter from House Republican Leader John Boehner to President Barack Obama on Wednesday, asking the President to reconsider his support of the Freedom of Choice Act. The text of the letter is reproduced here.

Together for Adoption and Carolina Hope are sponsoring an Ethiopia mission trip to serve orphans in Shashemene and Addis Ababa this summer. More information (including how to apply to be a part of the 20-person team) can be found at Together for Adoption.

So in an ironic twist, the symbolic hope of Obama’s election could easily turn into more exploitation of the poor and less freedom for everyone — especially the most vulnerable.

Soon after we started this blog, Dan asked me to have a way for people to receive new posts by email. For about a year we had that functionality, but then the plugin that powered the emails starting having problems. Well, we got a new plugin, and you can once again subscribe to receive posts [...]

Laura Godwin, Carolina Hope’s Director, has written the following letter for friends and supporters of Carolina Hope:
December, 2008
Dear Carolina Hope Friends and Supporters,
Although you are all familiar with the ministry of Carolina Hope and the world of adoptions, you may not be familiar with the upheavals the adoption community has experienced this year and the [...]

A few days ago, our sitemeter (down at the very bottom of the page in the small text) passed the 100,000 pageviews mark.
In the last 16 months or so, we’ve published nearly 300 posts, many of them reflections on the theology of adoption or interviews with theologians and others about adoption.
The blog was first envisioned [...]

We’ve recently redesigned our poster that encourages women facing an unplanned pregnancy to consider adoption — and we’ve had it translated into Spanish. The posters’ dimensions are 27cm x 42cm.
Do you have access to a space that would likely be seen by a woman facing an unplanned pregnancy? Women’s restrooms, public bulletin boards

To deny that God’s love for us (i.e., adoption love) is “unconditional love” is a strange and provocative thing to say. But I’m convinced it’s true. In his book Seeing with New Eyes, David Powlison writes:

I’d like to propose that God’s love is much different and better than unconditional. Unconditional love, as most of us [...]

On October 23, Justin and Darcey, along with their son, Dex, traveled down to Greenville, SC, to welcome their new daughter, Breiden, into the family. They created a short video of the experience (about 2 minutes long), which they’ve shared with Carolina Hope.
 

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