We are pleased to announce that, effective April 13, 2009, Carolina Hope Christian Adoption Agency has become part of Nightlight Christian Adoptions, and our office will be operated as the South Carolina branch office of Nightlight. Information on this website (www.CarolinaHopeAdoption.org) about the adoption services that were formerly provided by Carolina Hope remains accurate — but these services are now rendered by our office as a part of Nightlight Christian Adoptions. Read more here.

29 May 2009

Orphan Care Summer Tour

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 [...]

21 May 2009

Russell Moore’s proposed resolution on adoption and orphan care

Read the excellent resolution Russell Moore has submitted to the Southern Baptist Convention’s Resolution Committee: “On Adoption and Orphan Care: A Proposed Resolution.”
(HT: Dan)

14 October 2008

Audio Sermon: The Cosmic Significance of Adoption

I had the privilege of preaching at Grace Church of Memphis yesterday on the cosmic significance of adoption within the story of redemption. You can listen to it here.

22 September 2008

Family Prayers for Orphans

One of the ways our family seeks to serve orphans is by praying for them at supper time. I’ve had the opportunity to travel to orphanages in China and Ethiopia. So I printed out pictures of orphans I’ve had the privilege of meeting on those trips and put them on our refrigerator. [...]

3 September 2008

Ethiopian Orphan Benefit Dinner this Saturday!

From our Ethiopian Orphan Benefit Dinner and Silent Auction page:
On Saturday, September 6, from 6:30-8:30 p.m., Carolina Hope is having an Ethiopian Orphan Benefit. The event will be held at Furman University in Greenville, SC.
In addition to dinner, the fundraiser will feature…

live musical entertainment

a silent auction with jewelry, rounds of golf, clothing, home interior pieces, [...]

12 August 2008

Our Tragedy and God’s Gift of Adoption

As many of you know, in honor of his daughter Maria Sue, Steven Curtis Chapman wrote a CNN article entitled, “Our Tragedy and God’s Love for Orphans.” It is a great example of how vertical love (God’s adoptive love for us) can move horizontally (our adoptive love for an orphan). Steven’s article about Maria and [...]

1 August 2008

Registration for Together for Adoption Conference is now open!

Registration for Together for Adoption Conference 2008 is now open! Please join us for this unique event as we explore what our adoption in Christ means for us and for orphans.
Conference Speakers: Rick Phillips, Russell Moore, Carl Robbins, and Tullian Tchividjian.
See conference schedule here.

28 July 2008

True Religion: A Gospel-Centered Look at James 1:27

To read the article, click on the image below, and you will be able to download the article as a PDF.

23 July 2008

Glorifying the Father of the Fatherless

Check out Jason Kovacs’ excellent post on adoption at Desiring God’s blog. It is entitled “Glorifying the Father of the Fatherless.”

16 June 2008

Caring for Ethiopia’s Orphans

James 1:27 says, “Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction.” God’s people are to be marked by a compassion for orphans and widows. We have received compassion that we might have compassion on others who are in need of it. [...]

14 March 2008

Announcing: Orphan Care Interview on FamilyLife Today

Benedict & Kathleen Schwartz of All Kids Can Learn International and Children of Zion Village will be guests on FamilyLife Today both Monday and Tuesday, March 17th-18th, next week. Dennis Rainey will be interviewing them about the exciting orphan ministry opportunities with this Christian Alliance for Orphans partner in Namibia and Zambia. You can learn [...]

10 March 2008

Ethiopia group home needs

Over the weekend we received our first donations to specific needs at the Ethiopia Group Home. Check out the list of needed items to see what’s been given and what is still needed. And thanks to those who gave!
(You can watch video footage here of Ethiopian orphans who were visited by Carolina Hope’s Lisa Prather [...]

7 March 2008

Ethiopia’s Orphans: Our Benefit Concert Video

This is our Ethiopia video that premiered at our recent benefit concert with Caedmon’s Call. It was created by Brannon McAllister from footage captured on our recent trip to Ethiopia. The children shown in this video live at one of the orphanages with which we work, an orphanage located in a village with [...]

19 February 2008

a “Thank you” to Desiring God

The staff at Carolina Hope wants to thank Desiring God for their very kind and thoughtful blog post about our recent trip to Ethiopia and our upcoming benefit concert.  Lukas Naugle’s post was encouraging to us.  It has been our great privilege to partner with them in these ways.
(Donations to help Ethiopian orphans can be [...]

19 February 2008

Ethiopia’s Orphans: “a pictures worth…” (part eight)

[[ This photo has been removed to honor Ethiopia's desire that photos of orphans not be displayed on websites. ]]

(Donations to help Ethiopian orphans can be made here. Tickets to the Ethiopia Benefit Concert can be purchased here.)
:: picture taken by dan ::

13 February 2008

Ethiopia’s Orphans: “a picture’s worth …” (part seven)

[[ This photo has been removed to honor Ethiopia's desire that photos of orphans not be displayed on websites. ]]

(Donations to help Ethiopian orphans can be made here. Tickets to the Ethiopia Benefit Concert can be purchased here.)
:: picture taken by dan ::

8 February 2008

Ethiopia’s Orphans: “a picture’s worth …” (part six)

The picture below was taken at the same orphanage where these three pictures were taken (one, two, three). As I mentioned in the post of the first picture linked to above, we had just handed out colored pencils and paper to the children. They were all very quick to sit down to start drawing. [...]

7 February 2008

Ethiopia’s Orphans: “a picture’s worth…” (part five)

These children were enjoying watching themselves as I filmed them. And yes, I was listening.
Wesen, the gentleman speaking, is talking about churches sending mission teams to this orphanage to serve these orphans (builders, teachers, musicians, electricians, health professionals, people who just love spending time with children, etc).
[[ This video has been removed to honor [...]

6 February 2008

Ethiopia’s Orphans: “a picture’s worth…” (part four)

Marty McAlpine, Media Engineer at Desiring God, accompanied us on our trip to Ethiopia to video capture much of what we did while there. The director of the orphanage where the picture below was taken told us that many professional cameramen come through their particular village (a village with 20,000+ known cases of AIDS) to [...]

4 February 2008

Ethiopia’s Orphans: “a picture’s worth…” (part three)

[[ This photo has been removed to honor Ethiopia's desire that photos of orphans not be displayed on websites. ]]