Show Hope presents Steven Curtis Chapman and his family embarking on a new journey together this fall as they venture out on a “A Night with the Chapmans.” The special family affair kicks off Sept. 10, 2010, in Lancaster, Penn., and will hit 34 cities before ending on Nov. 21 in Baltimore, Maryland.
The night of music and hope with the multi-platinum selling and award-winning artist will feature some of his most memorable hits from his two-decade career. Songs to expect include “Live Out Loud,” “Cinderella” and many more. Chapman also will bring back by popular demand his request time when attendees can request specific song to be added to the set via StevenCurtisChapman.com.
“We’ve prayed for months that each evening of this tour be an opportunity to ponder important things and to celebrate the hope we have in Jesus, the great hope I’m so thankful continues to carry us all,” Chapman said.
As a part of this very special season, Mary Beth Chapman will join her husband for the first time ever on the tour. “There are three things I told God I never would ever do: homeschool, adopt and speak in public,” she said. “Well, we’ve already homeschooled; you know we’ve adopted; now this fall, I’ll be on stage speaking at Steven’s concerts.” With a smile Mary Beth adds, “Now I’m telling God I will not go to Hawaii for three months.”
Mary Beth will share her journey as reflected in her inaugural book Choosing to See co-written with Ellen Vaughn and available September 2010 and. Discussing her courtship and marriage to Chapman, struggles for emotional balance and living with grief, she will open up about how she has wrestled with God even as she has allowed Him to write her story—during times of happiness and tragedy. Mary Beth’s transparent style will surprise audiences with the depth of her faith struggle and her sense of humor. Mary Beth and Steven also will introduce audiences to the band Caleb, a new group featuring their sons Caleb and Will Franklin.
Show Hope, the title sponsor of the tour, is a ministry founded by the Chapmans that enables individuals and communities to change the world for orphans not only addressing a child’s need for food, shelter, care and spiritual nourishment, but also by addressing the root issue for an orphan: the lack of a family.
In other Chapman news, the title track from his current album Beauty Will Rise is now impacting radio. Beauty Will Rise, released last winter, is a collection of 12 compelling and profound songs created during the walk through the darkness of the loss of daughter Maria, while God continued to meet Steven on the journey. Equal parts lament, praise, grief, hope, wrestling and pondering, these tracks resonate as psalms. It is a desperately hopeful, raw, personal and honest recording, likely the most important of his incredible music ministry.
For more information about Chapman, the tour and a full list of dates, please visit StevenCurtisChapman.com, Twitter.com/StevenCurtis, or Facebook.com/#!/stevencurtischapman?ref=ts.
About Show Hope:
A ministry founded by Steven Curtis and Mary Beth Chapman to help care for the millions of orphans around the world, Show Hope helps provide waiting orphans with forever families by giving financial grants to those adopting. To date, Show Hope is an internationally recognized voice for orphan advocacy and has given more than 2,300 financial grants, affecting the lives of children from 45 countries, including the United States. In addition to giving financial grants, Show Hope also empowers families, churches and communities with adoption and orphan care resources and advocacy efforts to change the world for orphans.
In the summer of 2009, Show Hope opened the doors to Maria’s Big House of Hope, a six-story healing home facility located in Luoyang, China, which provides surgeries and medical care for special needs orphans. The mission of this healing home is to provide the highest level of care for these orphans who are in desperate need of surgeries and medical attention, thus enabling the children to thrive and increase the orphans’ chances of being adopted.
For more information, please visit ShowHope.org.
About Steven Curtis Chapman:
Steven Curtis Chapman has sold more than 10 million record,s including two RIAA certified platinum albums and eight RIAA certified gold albums. Along with his Dove and GRAMMY © awards, Chapman has won an American Music Award, recorded 45 No. 1 U.S. radio hits and been awarded 56 Dove Awards, more than any other artist to date. Since his recording career began in 1987, Chapman has recorded 17 projects with Sparrow Records. He has performed at the White House and appeared on multiple national programs via CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, CMT, FOX News, the Hallmark Channel and E!, including “Good Morning America,” “Larry King Live,” “CBS Sunday Morning,” “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” and more. Chapman and his wife Mary Beth created Show HOPE in 2001 after bringing their first adopted daughter, Shaohannah, home from China. The ministry’s goal is to help families reduce the financial barrier of adoption and has provided grants to more than 2,000 families wishing to adopt orphans from around the world.
About Mary Beth Chapman:
Mary Beth Chapman is the wife of Steven Curtis Chapman. Together they began Show Hope, a nonprofit organization dedicated to caring for the world’s forgotten and abandoned children by providing financial assistance to families wishing to adopt, as well as increasing awareness of 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, 24; Caleb, 20; Will Franklin, 19; and adopted daughters Shaohannah Hope, 10; Stevey Joy, 7; 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 It’s All About Him, which debuted at No.1 on the New York Times nonfiction list. In addition to her nonfiction work, Vaughn is an award-winning novelist. Vaughn and her husband, Lee, live in the Washington, D.C., area.
About Caleb:
Introducing Caleb, a four-piece independent rock band based in Franklin, Tenn., with founders songwriter/frontman Caleb Chapman and drummer Will Chapman. Caleb can be classified as alternative, rock and pop with pondering lyrics that ask and answer big questions with inspiring melodies that easily get caught in your head. Ultimately, the heart of the band beats to create music that’s accessible to everyone while maintaining artistic integrity and honesty. Caleb recently performed on the Casting Crowns tour this past spring and will be opening for the Chapmans this fall. For more information, please visit CalebMusic.com.
