Maria's Big House of Hope Opens July 2 in China

Show Hope Staff Celebrates Tuesday Evening with Stateside Grand Opening

Nashville, TN – June 25, 2009 – Show Hope, 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, Tenn., 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 five-year-old daughter, Maria Sue Chunxi Chapman, who 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. 
 
For more information about Maria's Big House of Hope and Show Hope, please visit www.ShowHope.org.