Last Wednesday I failed to mention a blogger who wrote an excellent post about our adoption agency. So, due to my mistake, he gets his own post today. Thanks, Phil, for the great recommendation.
Phil Gons of Pastorblog.com
Please give it a visit.
If you are aware of anyone else I failed to mention, please let me [...]
Taken from The Complete Adoption Book by Laura Beauvais-Godwin, Director of Carolina Hope (pp. 455-456).
Can an attorney serve as an intermediary?
Yes. A person who facilitates an adoption is not required to be licensed.
Is advertising permitted?
Yes.
Who must consent to the adoption?
1. The birth mother.
2. The birth father, if he is married to the birth [...]
We’d like to thank all the bloggers who have written about Carolina Hope over the past several weeks. They were all very kind to do so. Please give each of them a visit as a way of saying thank you for us.
Justin Taylor
Sally Lloyd-Jones
Buzzard Blog
Transforming Sermons
Steve McCoy of Reformissionary
Chris Gensheer of Intersection
Timmy Brister
Pilgrim [...]
Taken from The Complete Adoption Book by Laura Beauvais-Godwin.
“The adoption tax credit is perhaps the greatest financial incentive for adoptive families. You can now earn up to $10,160 in tax credit on your federal taxes for each child who you adopt. A tax credit is not the same as a tax deduction; a credit [...]
Adapted from my journal - July 8, 2005, Fuling, China
“Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans…in their affliction” (James 1:27).
I spent the early morning thinking about James 1:27 (couldn’t sleep!), specifically about what “visiting orphans in their affliction” means. I probably should have given this serious thought [...]
Justin Taylor writes:
One of the few posts that I repeat and supplement on this site is a list of resources that might help couples to finance an adoption. The reason is that adoptions are very expensive–often $15,000+ for a domestic adoption and $25,000+ for an international adoption; therefore finances are a major factor in preventing [...]
From time to time we will highlight blogs that we believe provide helpful information and practical encouragement about adoption. AdoptiveDads.org: Foster Care, Adoption, & Fatherhood is one such blog. It’s written by four adoptive dads: Daniel, Jason, Matt, and Michael. Here’s how they describe their blog:
This is a resource site for guys connected to adoption and foster care. [...]
If you’ve ever wondered how important spiritual adoption (i.e. God adopting us as His children) is to God, take a look at Galatians 4:4-6.
“When the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive [...]
John Piper talks about what it means to have been adopted by God. Listen to it or download it here.
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If you want to see more of the beauty of adoption, consider this brief quotation from Dr. C.F.W. Walther:
“Every Christian may apply to himself the declaration of God: ‘This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”
If you are a Christian, God speaks these amazing words over you: “You are My beloved child, [...]
I am convinced that as Christians grow in their understanding and experience of God’s love for them as adopted children, then passion for adopting children and visiting orphans in their affliction (James 1:27) will increase within the church. This is one main reason that Carolina Hope cares so much about communicating the truth of God’s [...]
One of the ways that Carolina Hope seeks homes for orphans from Guatemala is through photolisting - that is, placing an orphan’s photo and name (along with a few other pieces of information) on our website and at another photolisting website, RainbowKids.com. I’ll post more about photolisting at some other time (it’s a controversial practice), [...]
How important is the doctrine of uppercase Adoption (i.e. God adopting us)? If you are passionate about lowercase adoption (i.e. couples adopting children), this is an important question to answer. The importance of uppercase Adoption establishes the importance of lowercase adoption. Here’s what J. I. Packer has to say about the question:
“You sum up the [...]
One of my primary responsibilities at Carolina Hope is to explore and articulate the beautiful connection between uppercase Adoption (i.e. God’s adoption of us) and lowercase adoption (i.e. our adoption of a child). We believe that the more we understand the ways in which these two forms of adoption are connected the more our experience [...]
If you didn’t get the chance to hear Dan’s interview today on Calling for Truth, you can listen to the mp3 here. We first posted about Dan’s interview yesterday.
I listened to the interview live on my lunch break, and it was great. Dan shared a little about his own family’s adoption experiences
The Joint Council on International Children’s Services has issued the following notice about the second DNA test now being required for children adopted from Guatemala. As the notice states, the new requirement will be implemented for cases submitted to the U.S. Embassy in Guatemala on or after August 6, 2007.
This notice answers some of the [...]
It has been my experience that many people do not really begin thinking about adoption theologically until they themselves are involved in adopting (or at least considering adopting) a child. Very often, the consideration to adopt a child precedes the consideration of the truth that God has graciously adopted us to be His children.
So is [...]
This Thursday from 1 - 2 p.m. I’m being interviewed about my new position at Carolina Hope Christian Adoption Agency by Kevin Boling of Calling For Truth on WLFJ’s AM station (660) in Greenville, SC. It’s a great opportunity to talk about adoption. There are many exciting things happening both in the adoption world [...]
[This post was updated August 2, 2007. The update appears at the end of the original text.]
The U.S. Embassy in Guatemala City is introducing a second DNA test, this one to be done before a visa will be issued to the adopted child. This child’s DNA sample will be sent to the U.S. lab that [...]