Carolina Hope Christian Adoption Agency is now accepting applications for its new Ethiopia Adoption Program. Although this international adoption program has taken longer than expected to be fully operational, we are very excited to now be helping Ethiopian orphans find homes with adoptive families in the United States.

Carolina Hope has achieved 1-year temporary Hague accreditation through the Council on Accreditation. This status permits Carolina Hope to conduct adoptions from all Hague countries and to do Hague-approved South Carolina adoption homestudies.

Carolina Hope is conducting a 1-hour transracial adoption education course on Tuesday, April 22, at 7 p.m. The cost is $15. The course will be conducted online as a webinar, so participation will require an internet connection faster than dial-up. (Other than that, nothing is required. For more details, see the course page.) This webinar [...]

The following is an informal book review by Claudia-Jacqueline Semar, M.Ed. She has granted us permission to reprint it here. Ms. Semar is the Executive Director of International Child Foundation. She has worked in adoptions for more than 15 years, and as an adoptive mother, she has first-hand experience in the things she writes about. [...]

Carolina Hope is conducting a free 1-hour adoption home study education course tomorrow (April 15) at 7 p.m. The course will be conducted online as a webinar, so participation will require an internet connection faster than dial-up. (No gas, no travel time: The perfect way to get an education!) This webinar is open (and free) [...]

There are many countries and adoption programs that are closed to our family due to our income, age, family size and ethnicity. It is probably good that they are closed, as I have been accused of a tendency toward ‘adoption addiction’ — and it just makes it easier to find the specific paths that God [...]

Part Six: The Trinity and Adam’s Sonship (read the other parts here) We concluded Part Five by asking this question: In what sense was Adam a son of God? Have you ever considered why it is that God is three persons and not just one? (This question is relevant to our discussion of Adam’s sonship. [...]

As we celebrate our adoption agency’s 10th Anniversary, I’m posting brief introductions of the Carolina Hope staff. March 10 I told you a little about our Assistant Director, Lisa Prather. Today I would like you to meet our Director of Ministry Outreach, Dan Cruver. I’ve asked him a few questions, and here are his answers. [...]

If you tried to access our blog and got an error in the last day, our apologies. There was apparently a problem with our host. We recovered all our content and moved it to a new database this morning. Our content was safe thanks to a great WordPress plugin by Austin Matzko. Another friend helped [...]

Part 5: The Question (read the other parts here) As I have tried to demonstrate in parts 3 and 4 in this series, it really is not difficult to recognize the importance of adoption in Paul’s thought. It clearly plays a central role in the outworking of the history of redemption. Adoption precedes human history [...]