Show Hope and Steven Curtis Chapman

After coming home from Sarah and DiDi's reunion, we had a message on the answering machine from Shaohannah's Hope. Steven Curtis Chapman was having a concert in our area and they wanted to know if we would be interested in volunteering for Show Hope again (like we did in September, see HERE). Of course we wanted to and so the next day we were off to be Show Hope volunteers! We had a great time and at the end of the concert, we had raised almost $7,000!!! Some of it was awarded to a family there who had 11 children and was in the process of adopting their 12th! It was an amazing night and just awesome to see people be affected by SCC's Change for Orphans and through adoption!

Change for Orphans

The Show Hope booth

After intermission, we had tons of change to count!

Sarah wanted to help count the change too!

Mom and Dad

After the concert when people were on their way out, Sarah stood on top of the table holding the little Show Hope bucket!
It was adorable and many people came up afterwards just to put more in Sarah's little bucket, which, in just a few minutes had over $300 in it!

After the concert, Sarah and Lilly!
Lilly is also three years old and was adopted as well. Sarah and Lilly became friends right away and had such a fun time running around and playing together! They were so sweet together!
Sarah with Chris from Shaohannah's Hope, skipping off to see "Steve". One really cool thing is that one of Chris's little sister's names is "Kaia"- the same name as our Chayah! Both pronounced the same, just spelled differently. She was adopted from China too and is also 5 1/2 (the same age as our Chayah)!

"Hi! What's your name?"

"Sierra?"

"You didn't remember my name?!"
"I promise I'll remember your name next time, Sarah!"

"How old are you? Hmmm..."

"You're only 3?! Wow!! You're SO smart!!!"

Steven Curtis Chapman and Sarah Lu

Buddies :)

Sarah with David Trask, Steve's road manger
She made freinds with him quickly and even had a little "adventure" with him before the concert started. When we first got there, he came to let us in. The first thing Sarah did was run right up to him, pull on his arm, and say "Excuse me! Where's Steve?" He told her that Steve was upstairs doing an interview. And Sarah replied, "But, why?" She kept talking to him and the two of them became friends. He promised her that he would make sure that she got to see Steve! A little while later Sarah and I were walking around with our Show Hope bucket, collecting change before the concert started and David Trask came over and asked Sarah if she would like to go see Steve. Of course, she did, and so she jumped right into his arms to go off on a Steve-finding adventure. The two of them went to Steve's bus and waited for Steve to come out, but he was in there for a while, so they came back in to the Show Hope booth where we were and he promised to make sure that Sarah would meet Steve before the evening was over, after making sure that she would still be awake after the concert, which of course was a yes! So after the concert was over, we all went back to see Steve. Sarah was super excited and the two of them became friends very fast!

Below is a video of Sarah enjoying the concert