Posts by Bethany Briley
How to Advocate Well for Your Children at School
It has often been said that “it takes a village” to raise a child, and a critical member of that community is your children’s school. As a parent, it is important for you to connect and build relationships with your child or teen’s teachers, the school’s faculty, and the support staff around them. However, knowing…
Read MoreTips for Talking With Your Kids About Their Health
Talking with your kids about their health or the health of a family member or close friend can be intimidating and scary. Yet according to AdventHealth, “While your natural response as a parent is to protect your child by avoiding conversations surrounding these subjects, it’s important to encourage everyone involved to be open and honest…
Read More15 Encouraging Bible Verses for Parents
The late Dr. Karyn Purvis once said, “A gift you can give to your child is taking good care of yourself.” There is perhaps no better way to care for your whole self—mind, heart, body, and soul—than abiding with God in his word. In the Book of Psalms, we find this familiar Bible verse: “Your…
Read MoreAdoption Aid Grants Rewind
Our Adoption Aid grants are the cornerstone of our work—the original vision of our Founders, Mary Beth and Steven Curtis Chapman. To date, we have had the privilege of awarding more than 9,100 Adoption Aid grants, impacting children from around the globe and totaling more than $44 million. You have helped make this impact possible,…
Read MoreShow Hope Book Club: It Takes More Than Love
““It Takes More Than Love” is both convicting and encouraging, not only for adoptive parents but also for anyone in community with adoptive families,” Show Hope Manager of Communications Bethany Jones said. “Brittany Salmon does not shy away the challenges that come with transcultural adoption but also highlights the beauty of God’s design.” We encourage…
Read MoreA Haven of Hope
Our story began with hope. Our Founders, Mary Beth and Steven Curtis Chapman, desired to see children enter the love of a family through adoption. Show Hope Adoption Aid grants grew and so did our understanding. You see, the adoption journey does not end the day a child is welcomed home. In many ways, it…
Read More“… and I will give you rest.”
Dear Friends, When you hear, “Be still,” what comes to mind? Perhaps it is a mother, hushing a squirming child during a Sunday morning church service. Maybe it is the peaceful yet powerful command found in the Book of Psalms, “Be still and know that I am God.” Or perhaps it is a familiar whisper…
Read MoreGifts of Hope: A Message From Steven Curtis Chapman
Dear Show Hope family, This time of year, we celebrate the greatest gift of hope ever given—the gift of our hope in the coming of Jesus … the Word made flesh to be with us and for us. And every year, we, here at Show Hope, celebrate that hope in Jesus with our Gifts of…
Read MoreA Game-Changer
Before Holly and Ben Kladder even brought their son FuXi home from China through adoption, they knew he had a love for sports. “We always knew he was a sports kid,” Ben said. “Even some of the videos we got when he was still in China, he was in a chair, playing basketball with kind…
Read MoreQ&A With Our Founders
Since 2008, Show Hope’s Student Initiatives work has engaged more than 23,000 students, empowering and equipping them to step into the lives of children and families—all for the glory of God. Our Founders, Mary Beth and Steven Curtis Chapman, have been champions of this work, long before it officially launched 16 years ago now, and…
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