Caroline's Promise News

We are proud to be a sponsor of WBFJ Christian Radio's gazebo at The Dixie Classic Fair beginning this week! If you only go to the fair one day, make it SATURDAY!!! We'll be at the gazebo, greeting people and sharing about orphans and how you can reclaim hope for them. WBFJ has a fun game called Plinko and all proceeds on Saturday will benefit Caroline's Promise. Will you join us in praying for great weather, lots of Plinko player and lots of opportunities to share about Caroline's Promise? You can learn more at http://www.dcfair.com/

We are looking for a few volunteers to help us with some events this fall. Most are at community festivals where we will be selling our fair trade items. If you enjoy selling great gift items and can help us out during any time period, call Lisa at 336-669-7340 or email at LisaHolbrook@CarolinesPromise.Net Saturday October 2: Stokesdale Market 8am - 1pm. November 6: Osborne Baptist 7% Conference in Eden. NC - 8:30am - 1:30pm November 9: MOPS at Westover Church - Greensboro, NC Friday November 12: Moses Cone Craft Fair - Greensboro, NC - 7am - 6pm Saturday November 13: Main Street Methodist - Kernersville, NC - 8am - 2pm

Our friends at Casita Adonai in Guatemala City have asked us to bring a team the week after Christmas. We can't think of a better way to spend Christmas Break! We have 6 spots left on this team that will depart Greensboro on December 26 and return January 1. Approximate cost is $1600 and includes everything except personal spending money and your passport. Our team will work with the students, teachers and parents at Casita to get the school ready for the new school year which begins in January. Painting, cleaning and light construction. We will also host Christmas parties for the kids at the church and school and minister to families at Kairos which is a home for famillies whose children are being treated for cancer. Lots more is planned, but if you're interested you need to sign up now! These spaces will fill quickly. The team is open to adults 18 and up or families with students age 12 and up. You will be required to attend monthly training meetings. Deadline for application...

Want to know what God says about adoption? Join us for a free Adopted by Design seminar! America World Adoption will be hosting a free adoption seminar entitled Adopted By Design. This multimedia program will address what God's Word says about adoption. You will hear families share their personal adoption expreience and see the love that defines what it means to be a mother and a father. You will aslo see a moving Hallmark presentation of Steven and Mary Beth Chapman's story of adoption. Register today at www.awaa.org/events or call 1-800-429-3369. Triad Baptist Church 1175 South Maint Street Kernersville NC 27284 Saturday, October 9th 10:00 AM - 12:00PM

We are excited to share this creative fundraiser with you! The Hunt Family felt the Lord calling them to adopt from Ethiopia. There was just one problem…..they didn’t have the money they needed to complete the process! We’ve been amazed at all of the fundraisers they’ve done throughout this journey because they are not only raising money, they are educating an entire community about the needs of orphans. One of the most creative ideas was actually taken from a fellow blogger. They purchased a 300 piece puzzle and invited their friends and family to “sponsor” a piece for $17. Once all the pieces were sponsored the Hunts would have $5000 for the next part of their adoption. The Hunts wrote the name of the sponsor on the back of the puzzle piece and plan to frame it in double-sided glass so that their precious daughter will always know how much she was loved. The Hunts are a perfect example of families who are giving everything they have to adopt! Each week we hear of couples who are tak...

Casita Adonai is a Christian School in Guatemala City that Caroline's Promise partners with. The Wesleyan Church there, Iglesia Adonai is doing a great job, ministering in this difficult community and Casita Adonai is one of their main outreaches. Many of the children come from single parent homes or live with their grandparents. It is difficult for most to pay the tuition but they are desperate to keep their children out of the public schools where they become targets for local gangs. We recently visited Casita Adonai to lay the foundation for a child sponsorship program. We were blessed to find that the church, school and parents are not sitting around, waiting on Americans to help them. They are using their gifts and creativity to raise funds for Casita and they are creating community through the process! The teachers and parents worked together to have their Annual "Mercado". The parents provided special food for purchase and the teachers and children presented a wond...

Abby Barwick has been a faithful volunteer with Caroline's Promise since her first mission trip to Guatemala. She not only gives of herself on mission trips, but she shares about orphans and the ministry in her salon, Hollywood Hair . Abby sells our fairtrade items and encourages her clients to make a difference for orphans in their everyday lives. We're so proud of Abby! To read more about what Abby has done, click here and then type in page "16" at the top. Thanks Abby for making a difference through your business!

Chris Tomlin's New Album, And If Our God Is For Us... is available for pre-sale right now! You can pre-order online or in-store at Family Chrisitian store. AND, if you purchase this album between 8/27/2010 and 11/15/2010, The James Fund will donate $.75 to Pray Amercia to help serve widows and children in need in Guatemala. This would make a great gift for the holidays coming up or as a special treat for yourself. Why not make a difference while enjoying some great music? Click here to order now.

We invite you to pray for one of our latest Grant Recipients Chris and Meggan Graves of Canton, NC recently received a $3000 grant from Caroline's Promise toward their Ethiopian adoption. Please join us in praying for them and their son, Bereket as they wait to bring him home! You can read more about the Graves family in this article by The Mountaineer. http://tinyurl.com/37tjteh

It is rainy season in Guatemala but this year has been worse than normal. Will you join us in praying? Following is part of an email from Impacto, a ministry that serves the people of Guatemala. "Over the weekend, many more mudslides occurred and roads in many parts of Guatemala are closed, including parts of the Pan-Am Highway that our teams use to get to and from the lake area. One of the worst mudslides was where we turn off the Pan-Am to go to Poacorral. Reports are that a bus and two cars are buried under this mudslide. As is the custom in Guatemala, when something like this happens, men from the nearby villages race to the slide site and start shoveling to try to get to the people as soon as possible and even if no one is reported to be under the slide, they will begin trying to clear the roads because they need the big trucks to have access to bri ng in supplies and also to take out any produce that is headed for sale at market. The men were shoveling at this particular sit...