Posts Tagged ‘students’
Q&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…
Read MoreAudrey Wells’ Story
Right now in this stage of our life, we can do something, and we can learn, and we can pray, and ask God to change our hearts and change the hearts of people around us. Audrey Wells, Pause Campaign Leader Students are not just the leaders of tomorrow—they can be leaders today. When we engage,…
Read MorePass It On: Q&A With Baylor University’s Phi Kappa Chi Fraternity
In the fall of 2023, Baylor University fraternity Phi Kappa Chi named Show Hope their official philanthropy, led by Senior Philanthropy Committee Chair Gabe Jensen. Although this unique connection has only existed for less than nine months, Phi Kappa Chi has already begun to incorporate Show Hope into the life of their fraternity, including completing…
Read MoreGod’s Heart for Children
“For you formed my inward parts;you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.”— Psalm 139:13-14 We serve a God who cares deeply for children who have been orphaned. Throughout Scripture, we see God’s compassion for the poor,…
Read MoreWhat’s Next for Pause Campaign?
What would it look like for a group of students to put away distractions for seven days and focus on children who have been orphaned? This was the vision Show Hope had in the fall of 2016 when Pause Campaign (Pause) officially launched, with its aim of engaging students in the work to care for…
Read MoreSurprise!
Ryan Neises and his wife, Kelsey, have been discussing adoption being part of their family story since marrying. During some of their initial research, they came across Show Hope and found it to be helpful in understanding the barriers to adoption and some of the challenges that they could potentially face. Ryan, who serves as…
Read MoreThe Why
How Did We Get Here? For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who is not partial and takes no bribe. He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing. Love the sojourner,…
Read MoreThe Need
… to you the helpless commits himself; you have been the helper of the fatherless. … O LORD, you hear the desire of the afflicted; you will strengthen their heart; you will incline your ear to do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed, so that man who is of the earth may strike terror…
Read MoreGetting to Know Bethany Briley–Show Hope’s Coordinator of Student Initiatives
Show Hope Co-founder Mary Beth Chapman sat down with Bethany Briley, Show Hope’s Coordinator of Student Initiatives. For 14 years, Show Hope has equipped and mobilized more than 23,000 students on college campuses, in middle and high school classrooms, and through youth ministries at churches across the U.S. As our Co-founder Steven Curtis Chapman once…
Read MoreSeeing Beyond You
When Anna Jones was in high school, she had the opportunity to travel to Haiti on a mission trip. While there, she met a family who had traveled to Haiti to meet and bring home their two children. This was Anna’s first exposure to the adoption process, and it was then that she learned how…
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