Nightlight Christian Adoptions

Nightlight Christian Adoptions

Nightlight Christian Adoptions
Type	Non-profit
Founded	1959 (1959)
Headquarters	U.S.
Number of locations	California, Colorado, Georgia, Kentucky, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas (January 2017)
Area served	United States, Taiwan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Nicaragua, Panama, Uganda, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Bulgaria, Colombia, Romania, Haiti, Hong Kong, Albania, Ghana, India, Nigeria and China.
Key people	Daniel Nehrbass, President
Services	Adoption agency, adoption counseling, embryo adoption
Website	nightlight.org

Nightlight Christian Adoptions is a national, non-profit, Hague accredited, pro-life licensed adoption agency that counsels pregnant women and arranges adoptions. They have locations in eight U.S. states and arrange adoptions both domestically and internationally. The agency was founded in 1959. Nightlight was the first agency beginning in 1995 to organize a tour of the United States by group of orphaned Russian children. In 1997, the agency created the first program in the United States to arrange for couples to adopt frozen embryos.

Nightlight is a licensed non-profit Hague accreditedadoption agency that provides pro-life counseling to pregnant women and adoption services to families. They coordinate adoptions both in the United States and internationally. They also facilitate adoption of frozen embryos and provide humanitarian assistance to children in orphanages.

Nightlight was founded in 1959 by a group of evangelical Christian churches with the purpose of addressing the needs of women in unplanned pregnancy. At the time, the name of the agency was Evangelical Welfare Agency. The agency was later called Christian Adoption and Family Services. In 1994, Ron Stoddart, a California adoption attorney, assumed leadership.

The agency changed its name to Nightlight Christian Adoptions and has offices in California, Colorado, Georgia, Oklahoma, Missouri, Kentucky, South Carolina and Texas. It has four divisions: Nightlight Christian Adoptions, Snowflakes Embryo Adoption, Embryo Adoption Awareness Center and Orphan Galaxy. It arranges adoptions within the United States and in 12 foreign counties: Taiwan, Kazakhstan, Nicaragua, Panama, Uganda, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Bulgaria, Romania, Haiti, Hong Kong, and China. In 1995 Nightlight was the first agency to bring a group of Russian orphan children to the United States on a tour to help increase awareness of older children's adoption needs.

Daniel Nehrbass became Executive Director in May 2012.

Nightlight has been involved in international adoptions in China, Ethiopia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Taiwan and the Ukraine. The organization has successfully helped over 1000 families adopt children from countries overseas, with the largest number coming from Russia. Fees for an international adoption can be as much as $49,000. To help adoptive families, the company "created a $50,000 scholarship fund. The monies are available to help prospective adopting parents wanting to adopt eligible children; but who may not have the financial resources available to do so."