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Before You Apply for a Show Hope Medical Care Grant
At Show Hope, we recognize that bringing your child home is not the end of your adoption journey. In fact, it is really just the beginning. In a desire to continue journeying well with families, Show Hope’s Medical Care grants help reduce both financial and medical barriers to adoption. Ranging from $7,000-$10,000, these grants can…
I Want to Give Them All the Money for All the Things by Mary Beth Chapman
Fueling Your Heart
Lily Catlett has been connected to Show Hope for almost her entire life. Now a senior in high school, Lily was born in China and spent time at Maria’s Big House of Hope. Lily was adopted at 2 years old and has since attended every Care Centers reunion hosted by Show Hope. At the most…
Long Hollow Church: The Sky’s the Limit
Orphan care is more than a mission for Joey Watson and his wife, Kellyn. For them, he said it’s a calling. “We’ve been adoptive parents now for over a decade and have handled a lot of behaviors and trauma that comes with that,” Joey said, “Our youngest son has special needs, and so we have…
He Will Provide
Elizabeth and Jon McGlathery stepped into adopting their third son, Noah, knowing he lived with medical needs. They said the possibility of receiving a Show Hope Medical Care grant madethe financial weight of their yes feel a bit lighter. “We felt clearly the Lord called us to grow our family solely through adoption, and we…
Right Where I Belong
Mackenzie Johnson grew up in a large family. She is one of 10 siblings, and she is no stranger to the beautiful and hard things about adoption. Her two younger sisters are adopted, and her family fostered many others before them. “I understood from a young age that for a variety of reasons, not all…
Still … Speechless
From Our Executive Director … Dear friends, As we move into summertime and wind down another fiscal year (which ends June 30), can I just say, There is so much to celebrate in the life of Show Hope!!!? Mary Beth and Steven wrote about approaching the milestone of impacting 10,000 children with a Show Hope…
