Amazing Grace Adoptions first opened our doors in 1999. We have ​been licensed by the state of North Carolina since 1999 and by the ​state of Florida since 2015 as a child-placing agency, able to ​provide quality adoption services. We are a not-for-profit, pro-life ​organization that seeks funding from churches, foundations, ​individuals, and corporations in order to keep our fees to adoptive ​families as low as possible.

Amazing Grace Adoption’s mission is to serve birthparents, ​orphaned and vulnerable children, and adoptive families through the ​Biblical model of family.

Amazing Grace Adoptions operates under the legal name of ​Amazing Grace Adoptions which is a non-profit organization ​registered as a 501(c) 3.

Birthparent Services Include

• Free pregnancy counseling
  
• Referrals for prenatal care, housing, and ​other needs
• Adoption services if you choose to make ​an adoption plan for your child
• Post-adoption counseling
• Post-abortion counseling referrals
  

Married since 2015

Nathan and Sarah

Reasons for Wanting to Adopt:

God laid adoption on our hearts while we were still dating in college. ​We believed it is a beautiful picture of what Christ has done for us ​and our desire is to reflect Him in everything we do as we direct our ​hearts towards him in building our family. We want to be able to ​provide a loving and caring home, centered on Christ.

Family Activities:

We love spending time with family, friends, and our church community. ​We are very active outdoors, playing sports with friends or just taking ​walks around our neighborhood. We love cooking and trying new ​recipes as well as watching a good movie. We love to go fishing and ​playing with our dogs.

Married since 2004

Bryan and Sonya

Reasons for Wanting to Adopt:

After praying and seeking the Lord’s will, we both believe the Lord ​has instructed us to expand our family. We attempted to do so ​naturally, but were unable to conceive a second time. This is not ​surprising because we had difficulty conceiving our first child. We ​believe this difficulty is one way in which God pointed us toward ​adoption. That is not the only way, however. Even before we were ​married, and even before we had difficulty conceiving, we had ​discussed the desire to adopt. We believe it is a beautiful metaphor for ​how God unconditionally loves us and adopted us into his family.

Family Activities:

Playing games together such as board games and video games, going ​to the pool, taking walks together, playing with the dog, going to plays, ​playing at the park, riding bicycles, going to the beach.

Married since 2018

Mark and Bethany

Reasons for Wanting to Adopt:

Our reasons are many, but mainly simple. We want our lives to have purpose beyond ourselves. Our past wasn’t what either of us would have predicted, but we own that for ourselves and are at peace with it. We would feel beyond blessed to have a child(s) and have the opportunity to teach them about Jesus, love them, and do our best to raise them as a caring, good person.

Family Activities:

We love attending sporting events, going to the driving range, golf tournaments (yes, that’s sports too!), walks, fun drama shows, game shows, action movies. We go on the occasional trip to the North Carolina coast or Florida or a work conference together. We love spending time with our friends who live nearby.

Married since 2009

John & Ashley

Reasons for Wanting to Adopt:

In the fall of 2016, God began unmistakably stirring within us a call to adoption. At the time, we had been praying and asking God to make us parents for almost four years. We had struggled through what the doctors called “unknown” infertility, trying to get pregnant, yet to us the longer the wait grew, the more clear and known what the withholding was pushing and drawing us to. Adoption! The unspeakable joy of becoming parents arrived in 2020 with the birth of our son. We brought him home six days after he was born, and we found there hasn’t been a day that our hearts have not been filled with the utmost gratitude, that our Heavenly Father wanted something different for our family. He wanted something that, to this day, feels so holy and precious, so specifically ours in giving us our son. Every tear, every prayer, every hard moment was worth it! As we begin our adoption journey again, we are so expectant. Expectant of how the Lord is going to move in us and through us. Expectant of how the Lord is going to use this adoption process to further root and deepen the foundation of our family. Expectant of who the Lord is knitting together, protecting and preparing right now, to be part of our family forever! Adoption is at the very core of who our God is, and adoption is at the very core of who we are! Our hearts are overflowing with abundant joy and excitement as we see how beautifully the Lord is writing the story of adoption for our family. Adoption as His son and daughter. Adoption of OUR son. And now adoption again to expand our family!

Family Activities:

We love doing things as a family! We love playing games together, going to play putt putt, camping, going to the beach, doing anything outside (riding bikes, going to playgrounds/parks, going on walks, swimming, just everything)! We love spending time with friends! We love cooking together as a family (our son is an especially cute sous chef)! We love reading books together! We truly just enjoy spending time together. Northing fills our hearts up more than being with each other.

Domestic Adoption Process

Identifying information is exchanged, such as last names, locations of residence. This is always the case in independent adoptions, where the parties work through an attorney. In North Carolina, openness is only allowed in agency adoptions when both parties sign a specific state form in front of a notary during a meeting. Openness does not necessarily mean that a birthparent is a visible, ongoing presence in the life of an adopted child. Many birthparents desire openness so that they can be more easily found if the child desires to contact them in the future. The amount of contact (phone, face-to-face, email, letters, etc) between parties in an open adoption should be agreed upon before any legal documents are signed.*

Most adoptions fall under this level of openness. The communication between the birthparents and the adoptive family is done through the agency. No identifying information (last names, addresses, phone numbers, etc.) is exchanged. The birthparents will receive pictures and updates on how the child is doing through the agency as well as the birthparents can forward letters, pictures, cards or gifts through the agency to the child and family. The birthparents can choose the family as well as meet the family if they would like. Any meetings or visits with the birthparents and the adoptive parents would be with the presence of the agency.

The birthmother does not choose the family and does not wish to receive pictures or an update on how the child is doing. There is no communication between the birthparents and the adoptive family as well as no information is exchanged between the two parties.

Adoptive families must:

• be married at least three years before ​starting the adoption process
  
• be Christians, involved in the same ​church, and in agreement with our ​Statement of Faith
• plan to provide full time parental care ​once a placement is made*
  

*Please know this last requirement is not meant to be rigid. Families have been very creative in this area. The heart of this requirement is that the parents be the primary caregivers, rather than a daycare worker.

The attention and care that I was shown was amazing. I’m thankful to have gotten the worker I did. Actually, everyone at Amazing Grace was very nice.

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Angela, Birthmother

AGA was a lifeline for me when I found myself single and pregnant. They welcomed me, encouraged me, and never once did I feel judged. My heart's desire for my child was to grow up in a Christian family. Amazing Grace made that possible.

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A Birthmother

Amazing Grace is a trustworthy agency and every single person we’ve worked with has demonstrated integrity, professionalism and has been very encouraging along our adoption journey! They really care about the birth parents, adoptive parents, and most importantly they do what’s best for the children they are placing.

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Adoptive Mother

Meet Our Staff

Donnas Kinton, BS Executive Director

Donnas has been a social worker since 1976, and has practiced in the field of adoption since 1996. She graduated from Campbell University with a degree in Social Services and has worked in the maternal and child health field in both the public and private sectors. She is married with 3 daughters and has 6 precious grandchildren.

donnas@agadoptions.org

Sheila Teague, MSW

Adoption Social Worker

Sheila graduated with a BSW from North Carolina State University and an MSW from the University of South Carolina. She has worked in a variety of medical settings in the area of maternal and child health. The last seventeen years of her career have been serving birth parents and adoptive families in the field of adoption. She is married and has three children and one precious grandchild.

sheila@agadoptions.org

Jessica Parker, BSW

Birthmother Counselor

Jessica graduated with a BSW from Liberty University and is currently working toward her MSW from Campbellsville University. During her undergraduate degree, she interned with Amazing Grace and was eager to continue her work with the agency. Her passion for adoption came early on in life as she is an adoptee herself. She is married and has one precious child.

jessica@agadoptions.org

Jennifer Holladay

Adoption Social Worker

Jennifer is a social worker who has a BSW as well as a Master’s Degree as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist from Pfeiffer University. She has been working in the foster and adoption field since 1995. Jennifer and her husband have been happily married since 1996 and have 3 children. Jennifer has been one of our home study social workers for more than ten years and works with families in the surrounding Charlotte area.

jennifer@agadoptions.org

Amanda Tovey, BSW

Adoption Social Worker

Amanda graduated with her BSW from Cedarville University in 2000 and has worked in the areas of foster care and adoption intermittently since that time. She has over 15 years of experience in various case work roles in several areas of the U.S. She has been happily married to her husband since 2001 and together they have 5 children, the youngest of whom they adopted as a toddler from Russia.

amanda@agadoptions.org

Meagan Krings, MSW

Adoptive Family Coordinator

Meagan graduated with both her ​Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Social ​Work from North Carolina State ​University.

meagan@agadoptions.org

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