Choosing to SEE - Mary Beth Chapman [108]
Whether happy or mad, she could give you some attitude!
A trip to South Dakota in 2009 with our friends, the Moores, and their girls to help adjust to “the new normal.”
Caleb and Will on tour with Casting Crowns, 2010. Showing hope by wearing hope!
October 4, 2008. Emily and Tanner Richards were married. In honor of Maria, the family portrait was a “Rock Face” pose.
May 10, 2009. Caleb and Julia Chapman were married. In honor of Maria, the family portrait was another “Rock Face” pose.
Grand opening and dedication in honor of Maria—the complete earthly Chapman family at Maria’s Big House of Hope, 2009.
Mary Beth Chapman is the wife of Grammy and Dove Award winning recording artist Steven Curtis Chapman. Together they began Show Hope, a nonprofit organization dedicated to caring for the world’s most vulnerable children by providing financial assistance to families wishing to adopt, as well as increasing awareness of the orphan crisis and funneling resources to orphans domestically and internationally. Mary Beth serves as president of Show Hope and is a speaker for Women of Faith 2010 with her husband. She is also coauthor with Steven of the Shaoey and Dot series of children’s picture books. Mary Beth and Steven have six children, Emily, Caleb, Will Franklin, and adopted daughters Shaohannah Hope, Stevey Joy, and Maria Sue, who is now with Jesus. The Chapmans live in Tennessee.
Ellen Vaughn is a New York Times bestselling author and inspirational speaker. Her recent books include Shattered, Lost Boy, Time Peace, Radical Gratitude, and It’s All About Him, a New York Times bestseller. Former vice president of executive communications for Prison Fellowship, Vaughn collaborated with Chuck Colson on eight nonfiction books and two novels. Vaughn and her husband live in the Washington, D.C. area with their three teenagers.
Permissions
Chapters 1 and 27
“Beauty Will Rise,” words and music by
Steven Curtis Chapman. Copyright © 2009
One Blue Petal Music / Primary Wave Brian
(Chapman Sp. Acct.) (BMI). All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Chapter 4
“We Belong Together (Tarzan and Jane),” words and music by Steven Curtis Chapman.
Copyright © 2002 Sparrow Song (BMI)
(Admin. by EMI CMG Publishing) / Primary
Wave Brian (Chapman Sp. Acct.) (BMI). All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Chapter 6
“Love and Learn,” words and music by
Steven Curtis Chapman. Copyright © 1994
Sparrow Song (BMI) (Admin. by EMI CMG
Publishing) / Primary Wave Brian (Chapman
Sp. Acct.) (BMI). All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Chapter 8
“I Will Be Here,” words and music by Steven
Curtis Chapman. Copyright © 1989 Sparrow
Song (BMI) Greg Nelson Music (BMI)
(Admin. by EMI CMG Publishing) / Universal
Music-Careers (BMI). All rights reserved.
Used by permission.
Chapter 10
“Go There With You,” words and music by
Steven Curtis Chapman. Copyright © 1992
Sparrow Song (BMI) (Admin. by EMI CMG
Publishing) / Primary Wave Brian (Chapman
Sp. Acct.) (BMI). All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Chapter 11
“With Hope,” words and music by Steven
Curtis Chapman. Copyright © 1999
Sparrow Song (BMI) (Admin. by EMI CMG
Publishing) / Primary Wave Brian (Chapman
Sp. Acct.) (BMI). All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Chapter 13
“When Love Takes You In,” words and music by Steven Curtis Chapman. Copyright © 2001
Sparrow Song (BMI) (Admin. by EMI CMG
Publishing) / Primary Wave Brian (Chapman
Sp. Acct.) (BMI). All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Chapter 14
“What Now,” words and music by Steven
Curtis Chapman. Copyright © 2004
Sparrow Song (BMI) (Admin. by EMI CMG
Publishing) / Primary Wave Brian (Chapman
Sp. Acct.) (BMI). All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Chapter 16
“Something Crazy,” words and music by Steven Curtis Chapman and Matt
Bronleewe. Copyright © 2007 Sparrow Song
(BMI) (Admin. by EMI CMG Publishing) /
Music of Windswept (ASCAP / Woodland
Creatures Need (ASCAP) / Primary Wave
Brian (Chapman Sp. Acct.) (BMI). All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Chapter 17
“Fingerprints of