Show Hope - An Adoption Non Profit Organization

I'm not the kind of person who would ever think about adopting a child.  Not for lack of compassion or love, I just never felt either called to do it either due to my personality or the fact that I always felt that God had given our family all it could handle in the children department.

That being said, I've always had a heart for other people and their desire to adopt.  Whether it be a desire to complete their family or that they felt called to love on others in this way.

Around the time that I started to get to know my husband, I also started hearing about Show Hope, Steven Curtis Chapman(the musician) and his wife created a charity for people desiring to adopt but who needed help in various ways.

Due to the fact that there is so much red tape and money involved in adopting, this organization seemed like a perfect place to start supporting others in their love.

The tagline on their Your Part page states:  

NO ONE CAN DO EVERYTHING, BUT EVERYONE CAN DO SOMETHING.

I love this statement because it makes me feel like I can contribute.  Often times when I read about a charitable organization it's more about the need for money or things, and that's true of most everything in this world. 

Check out their website :  https://showhope.org/

Before we donated we prayed about it.  We also made sure we could budget it.  Check out my post here about budgeting before you donate.

When I think of adoption I think of the love the father has for us, that we can be called his sons and daughters, children of God.  When I explained adoption to my kids for the first time, this paints a clear picture of the love that others have for adopting.  How much love God has for us that he adopts us into his family.

My kids will often ask at a young age if a specific person is family or not.  I will explain to them that the definition of family is an interesting one, there are blood relatives and then there are those that we love like blood relatives, or even more so, that are considered family.  Truly love is the source of family after all. 

This is a great organization that I encourage you to read about and support in any way you can. Whether it be in prayer or financially.  

Whether or not you are called to adopt or not, we are all called to care for those who are orphaned.

James 1:27
Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.



Ephesians 1:5  
In love he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will

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