MARIA'S BIG HOUSE OF HOPE OPENS
JULY 2ND IN CHINA
Show Hope Staff Celebrates Tuesday Evening
With Stateside Grand Opening
Nashville, TN - June 25, 2009 - Show HopeTM, the adoption ministry of Steven Curtis and Mary Beth Chapman, announces the official opening of Maria's Big House of Hope on July 2nd in Luoyang, China. As the finishing touches are being made to this healing home for special needs orphans, the offices of Show Hope, located in Franklin, Tennessee, celebrated stateside for the hope and future of these orphans Tuesday evening at an invite-only open house for friends and family.
About Maria's Big House of Hope
Maria's Big House of Hope is a healing home dedicated to saving the lives of special needs orphans in China. Show Hope is proud to open the doors to this exciting project that provides for orphans throughout the country who are in desperate need of surgeries and special medical attention, offering them the highest level of care and enabling the children to thrive. In turn, there is hope that this necessary medical attention increases the orphans chances of being adopted. The facility is named in loving memory of the Chapman's 5-year old daughter, Maria Sue Chunxi Chapman, whom they adopted from China in 2004 when she was just one year old.
Luoyang, located in the Henan Chinese province with a population of approximately six million people, is one of the poorest provinces in all of China and is the chosen location for this caring facility that will be a beacon of hope to the people of China and the world. The state-run Luoyang orphanage takes care of nearly 700 children, currently giving care for most of the special needs orphans from all around Henan. By now partnering with Maria's Big House of Hope, the most ill of the orphans will be offered further medical care that they so desperately need.
About the Open House
Show Hope began in 2003 under the name Shaohannah's Hope with offices in Virginia. In 2007, they relocated to Franklin, TN, but by 2009 they had outgrown the space they were renting on the third floor of the Factory in Franklin.
In early June of 2009, Shaohannah's Hope renamed itself to Show Hope and moved into the second floor in the Factory. Finally, the ministry was able to re-purpose space specifically for this ministry.
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 FoxNews 17 interviewed Chapman for the Open House |
Over 300 people came out to celebrate with Show Hope, including donors, ministry friends, grant recipient families, and radio and TV reporters.
There was food, fellowship, and fun, ending with a time of worship led by Steven Curtis Chapman, co-founder of Show Hope. There was also an opportunity offered to change the world for orphans by sponsoring adoption and orphan care, and many responded very positively. Learn more about Show Hope and how to become a Show Hope Sponsor >
View this collection of pictures taken from the Open House:
Photos courtesy of Johnpricephoto.com