Lisa Prather, Carolina Hope’s Assistant Director, sent the following note out this morning: Dear Ethiopia Families and Carolina Hope Staff, I am pleased to announce that last week we were able to match 4 families who were waiting for referrals from Ethiopia. The following children have been matched: One boy: age 10 months old Twin [...]

Tree, gifts, spiral ham and sparkling cider – we are not talking about gross excess here, but the simple things that are a traditional part of our culture. It’s the question of spending money that does not absolutely have to be spent while we are facing the inevitable reality of significant bills related to adoption.

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 [...]

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 [...]

Carolina Hope is offering a live online course tomorrow (Dec. 9) about Domesticating an International Adoption in South Carolina. Participation requires a phone and an internet connection. Please pay and register today if you would like to participate. More information on the course contents and on registering is available at the course page.

Laura and Sarah discuss the possibility of Sarah’s someday meeting the daughter she placed for adoption.

This interview is part of a short series of interviews and testimonies about adoption. (Last week we blogged Margaret’s Mothers’ Day Testimony of placing a child for adoption.) A few months ago Carolina Hope’s director (Laura Godwin) interviewed Sarah, a young woman who placed her infant daughter for adoption during her senior year of college. [...]

Sarah talks about giving birth and how hospital policies required some changes in her plans. She also talks about holding her baby girl before putting her in the arms of her new family.

In this interview, Sarah talks about openness in adoption from the birthmother’s perspective. She relates her first meeting with the prospective adoptive parents, as well as what qualities in the couple were important to her.