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		<title>Together for Adoption Conference Audio</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:22:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Together for Adoption has posted the audio from their Nov. 1 conference. Check it out at their 2008 Conference Audio page. The audio titles are:

Jason Kovacs and Maridel Sandberg - &#8220;Conference Welcome and the Christian Alliance for Orphans&#8217; Vision for Orphan Ministry&#8221;
Dan Cruver - &#8220;Adoption in God’s Story of Redemption&#8221;
Rick Phillips - &#8220;The Good News [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Domesticate an International Adoption in SC: Live online course this Thursday</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:13:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Carolina Hope is offering a live online course this Thursday (Nov. 6) about Domesticating an International Adoption in South Carolina. Participation requires a phone and an internet connection.
Please pay and register today or Wednesday if you would like to participate. More information on the course contents and on registering is available at the course page.
:: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adoption love is not unconditional love (it&#8217;s better!)</title>
		<link>http://www.carolinahopeadoption.org/blog/archives/816/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:05:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[To deny that God&#8217;s love for us (i.e., adoption love) is &#8220;unconditional love&#8221; is a strange and provocative thing to say. But I&#8217;m convinced it&#8217;s true. In his book Seeing with New Eyes, David Powlison writes:

I&#8217;d like to propose that God&#8217;s love is much different and better than unconditional. Unconditional love, as most of us [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open adoption: what&#8217;s best isn&#8217;t always easiest</title>
		<link>http://www.carolinahopeadoption.org/blog/archives/810/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:22:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Open adoption is a frightening or strange idea to many people. I remember talking to a friend whose sister had recently adopted &#8212; with an open adoption. My friend thought that the openness was unnecessary and probably a bad idea. This from a well-educated, sophisticated man.
One of the goals of our Openness in Adoption workshop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adoption awareness dinner at The Vine Community Church, Nov. 9</title>
		<link>http://www.carolinahopeadoption.org/blog/archives/807/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:35:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[From our Workshops and Events page:
The Vine Community Church in Taylors, SC, is hosting an Adoption Awareness Night on Sunday, November 9 (5-9pm). There will be dinner and speakers (adoptive parents, adopted persons, and birthmothers). More information is available at Child of the King&#8217;s website. Please RSVP to Katie.M.Nyblom@gmail.com or 864-430-4367.
:: posted by josh ::
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		<title>JCICS Policy Recommendation on Ethiopia Adoption Travel</title>
		<link>http://www.carolinahopeadoption.org/blog/archives/803/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:17:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Ethiopia Adoption]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On October 22 the Joint Council on International Children&#8217;s Services (of which Carolina Hope is a member) issued a policy recommendation about cultural sensitivity for U.S. families traveling to Ethiopia to complete an adoption. Here&#8217;s the policy recommendation (PDF).
Carolina Hope supports these recommendations and plans to implement them for our Ethiopia Adoption Program.
:: posted by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Welcome home Breiden&#8221;: a family grows through domestic adoption</title>
		<link>http://www.carolinahopeadoption.org/blog/archives/779/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[On October 23, Justin and Darcey, along with their son, Dex, traveled down to Greenville, SC, to welcome their new daughter, Breiden, into the family. They created a short video of the experience (about 2 minutes long), which they&#8217;ve shared with Carolina Hope.
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[See post to watch QuickTime movie]
The adoptive family is working with private adoption [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ukraine opens up spots for adoption</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[We just made the following announcement on our Ukraine Adoption page:
On October 14, 2008 the Ministry for Family, Youth and Sports published official Order #3899 approving revised procedures for submission of new adoption dossiers from foreign citizens in the fourth quarter of 2008.  The annual adoption dossiers quota for 2008 had previously been set [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dan Cruver to speak at Orphan Awareness &#038; Adoption Sunday</title>
		<link>http://www.carolinahopeadoption.org/blog/archives/768/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:14:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Dan Cruver of Together for Adoption will be speaking in the 9:30am service and 11am Sunday School this Sunday (October 26) at Woodruff Road Presbyterian Church in Simpsonville, SC. Carolina Hope&#8217;s Laura Godwin will be there as well with information about Carolina Hope&#8217;s adoption services and also embryo adoption.
:: posted by josh ::
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		<title>Jason Kovacs to join Laura Godwin for Funding Adoption workshop</title>
		<link>http://www.carolinahopeadoption.org/blog/archives/764/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:32:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Jason Kovacs of the ABBA Fund will participate in the Oct. 23 online workshop entitled Financing an Adoption.]]></description>
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