We had a great experience with our entire adoption process with Bethany. The trainings were informative, the process was detailed and understandable, but most importantly the staff was amazing. The passion, care, compassion, and love we experienced through our process was tremendous! I would and have recommended Bethany to many people

We adopted through Bethany Christian Services almost four years ago and they helped to educate us throughout the process and provide support when our two initial birth moms decided to parent their children as well as help continue to give us hope. Our third birth mom selected us and we now have an almost four year old daughter and her birth mom is able to interact with her whenever she feels emotionally able to take that step.We chose Bethany Christian Services over other adoption agencies because we knew other families that had positive experiences with them as well as we wanted the birth families to have access to support and the message of Christ throughout this time and afterward to come to a place of healing. Adoption to us was not just about adding a child to our home, it was about being the hands and feet of Jesus to another family for the benefit of the child coming into our home.

I cant say enough about Bethany Christian Services and Safe Families. We have been a Host Family for a year or so and have enjoyed making an impact on these vulnerable children. I highly recommend working with Safe Families and helping young children stay out of the foster care system.

My husband and I were approved and put into the pool to adopt through Bethany last year. We told our caseworker from the very beginning that we did not have infertility issues and that we wanted to adopt for other reasons. She told us that was great and moved on with the process, collecting thousands of dollars.Shortly after entering the pool of waiting families, we found out we were expecting. We told Bethany that we would love to accept a child while we were pregnant but that if they wanted us to, we would go on hold until after our biological baby was born. To our complete shock, we were told that getting pregnant during the adoption process was against the rules and that we would have to go on hold until my due date, at which point they would close our file if the baby was born alive. They told us that if I miscarried or if the baby was stillborn that we could remain a waiting family, but that a live birth was like completely reinventing your family and that we have to start completely over (pay thousands of dollars again, submit all the documents, completely new home study (not just an update), etc.)Adoption is already expensive through Bethany and this financially crippled us, leaving us unable to start the process completely over. We were told by our social worker yeah we have had this happen a lot recently so we started telling people about the policy in the spring. She even acknowledged that since we began the process in the winter, we happened to join at a point where they were not covering this policy with new clients. Horrible. Awful way to conduct business, awful way to promote and support adoption, and an awful way to represent Christ.

We used Bethany in Greenville, SC during our first adoption. We had a lovely experience with them. They encouraged us to be open to having an open relationship with my childs first mom, and it has been so good for us. We love her and now she is part of our family.My only suggestion to Bethany would be to educate more families about transracial adoptions, and give PAP resources in their community (hair salons, support groups, encourage them to find other friends and community groups that are not white, and suggested groups/blogs to read online/facebook).

My husband and I were both diagnosed with a genetic anomaly in 2016 that caused us to both be sterile. We prayed a lot and decided to go with adoption. We looked into multiple different agencies, but we decided to go with Bethany Christian Services. The agency encouraged us to go through counseling because of our sterility. We went to counseling for 3 months while we were also going through the adoption process. We were put on the family waiting list June 2017. My husband and I agreed to only be on the list for a total of 2 years. We had 2 birthmoms that picked us at the same time may 2018. One of the birthmoms we were able to meet, and the other chose not to meet. Ultimately both birth moms ended up choosing to parent. That was great for them but it was heartbreaking for us. The emotional roller coaster was tough for both of us. We would reply to the recruitment e-mails, and I got excited everytime but then we wouldnt be chosen. We got our taxes done February 2019. We went out to eat after taxes. My husband and I were discussing whether or not we wanted to continue with adoption in June 2019 when it was time to renew. We decided to leave it in Gods hands and we prayed and drove home. Our social worker from Bethany called us as soon as we parked at home. She told us about a birthmom situation and my husband and I just knew. We dont know how we knew but we did. We both immediately said yes. We didnt even discuss it with each other because we both said yes at the same time. The birthmom didnt want to meet us, but we knew it was probably hard for her. We received updates from our social worker from there on out. We did the legal risk call and he said that it was a straight forward case. We were happy to hear that. We got news the day before our son was born that the birthmom was admitted to the hospital and that she wanted us there for when the baby was born. We got a call the next day when the baby was going to be born and what time we needed to be at the hospital. My husband and I were so nervous. We met the birth moms social worker at the hospital. Our son was born 2 months premature. He had mild breathing problems but he was healthy otherwise. We were so happy to see him. The birth mom chose to let my husband and I have the only NICU bracelets to visit our son. The birthmom terminated her rights 2 days later. The birthmom agreed to meet us the day she was being discharged. We clicked instantly. We talked for awhile, then all 3 of us went to the NICU and saw the baby. Birthmom wanted updates while the baby was in the hospital, but stopped asking once the baby was discharged 2months after he was born. I went on maternity leave when our son was discharged from the hospital. Before that, my husband and I would take turns working and being at the hospital. We did 3 post placement visits with our social worker. We finalized our adoption August 2019. We are very grateful for the miracle that our birthmom gave us. Without her we would not be parents. Our son is happy and healthy. Even though he was 2 months premature, he is catching up with his development.

I like to be a foster parent, I have two sons 14,10 I can be reach at 803 -552-3274