Whether you are waiting for an adoption placement, or hoping to prayerfully support a family in the midst of their adoption journey, here are some practical ways to pray for the adoption community. Pray for Rest- adoptive families spend countless hours gathering documents and preparing for a child. There are visits before placement […]

    You may ask yourself, “Is adopting a child through a Christian agency all that important?” After all, there are many ethical and competent agencies that provide excellent services but do not reference being Christian. Here at Nightlight, we are a distinctly Christian agency, and as a result, you may decide to adopt your […]

  As we approach a New Year, thoughts and conversations around resolutions are inevitable. Whether we resolve to go to the gym more, worry less or finally plant that garden, most of us face January 1st with motivation and resolve to conquer the impossible. And most of us know that by March (if we’re lucky) that […]

    It was Good Friday two years ago that we landed on U.S. soil completing the adoption of our first child.  We had endured a long and grueling wait to bring him home, and we were met with a joyous celebration that Easter weekend as friends and family welcomed us home.  Since then, we […]

If you are in the Greenville, SC area, and your church has or is interested in starting an orphan ministry, then you will want to attend this lunch sponsored by the Carolina Christian Alliance for Orphans.

Focus on the Family president Jim Daly talks about his experience as an orphan and why the church should be engaged in orphan care.

This October 1-2, the annual Together for Adoption Conference will be held at the Austin Stone Community Church in Austin, TX. The theme is "The Gospel, the Church, and the Global Orphan Crisis." Nightlight Christian Adoptions is one of the exhibitors at the conference, and Laura Beauvais-Godwin, director of our SC office, is one of […]

Read the excellent resolution Russell Moore has submitted to the Southern Baptist Convention's Resolution Committee: "On Adoption and Orphan Care: A Proposed Resolution." (HT: Dan)

When I started working for Carolina Hope a few years ago, I discovered something that surprised me: many adoption professionals are pro-abortion-rights (not at Carolina Hope, mind you). I suppose I shouldn't have been surprised. There is, it seems, a certain logic to the pro-abortion, pro-adoption mindset. It starts with 2 premises: first, that birth […]

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 - "Conference Welcome and the Christian Alliance for Orphans' Vision for Orphan Ministry" Dan Cruver - "Adoption in God’s Story of Redemption" Rick Phillips - […]