Dr. Karyn Purvis, author of The Connected Child, is the featured speaker at the Connected Child Conference: Bringing Hope and Healing to Your Family, March 6-7 at Calvary Baptist Church in Winston-Salem, NC. More details at The Connected Child website.
I have heard Dr. Purvis’s book highly recommended as a resource for parents of adopted children, [...]

Cindy over at Our Adoption Journey has written about the Federal Adoption Tax Credit, which will expire in December 2010. I encourage you read her post and then contact your legislators asking them to support legislation that will extend the tax credit beyond 2010.
(At present, H.R. 213 is about one sentence long: it [...]

Carolina Hope is offering a live online course this Thursday (Feb. 19) about Domesticating an International Adoption in South Carolina. Participation requires a phone and an internet connection.
Please pay and register before Thursday if you would like to participate. More information on the course contents and on registering is available at the course page.

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.

Check out Lifesong for Orphans, a Christian organization that provides matching adoption grants, interest-free adoption loans, and assistance to churches that want to support adoption.
Find additional resources can be found at Carolina Hope’s Funding an Adoption page.

Carolina Hope’s director, Laura Beauvais-Godwin, will be speaking during a break-out session at the Together for Adoption conference in October. In addition, Carolina Hope will be an exhibitor at the conference.

This year’s Guatoberfest is an adoptive families cruise October 5-9. More details at Guatoberfest.

A young, single woman (under 20-years-old) is relocating to South Carolina, most likely in March, with plans to place her baby for adoption when the baby is born in early July.

Tomorrow, Feb. 5, at 9 pm (EST), Carolina Hope is offering a live online adoption education course about openness in adoption. Here’s the write-up from the course page:
We often hear that families who are considering a domestic adoption are afraid of an “open” adoption. In this 1-and-a-half-hour course, you will learn what an open adoption [...]

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

Carolina Hope and Liquid Highway are teaming up to present an Ethiopia Adoption benefit concert on February 18 (Wednesday). Here are the details:
Where? It will be held outside at Liquid Highway’s Halton Road location (map). If the weather does not cooperate, it will be canceled and hopefully rescheduled.
When? The concert will begin at 6:30 PM [...]