Mary Beth Chapman

Mary Beth Chapman is the Co-founder and Chairman of the Board of Show Hope, an internationally recognized nonprofit in adoption advocacy and support. She is also a speaker and a “New York Times” best-selling author.

Touched and forever transformed by the miracle of adoption in their own family, Mary Beth and Steven founded Show Hope in 2003 with its mission to care for orphans by engaging the Church and reducing the barriers to adoption. To date, Show Hope has helped more than 9,300 children—from more than 60 countries, including the U.S.—come home to the love, security, and permanency of a family through its cornerstone Adoption Aid grants program. For nearly 15 years, Show Hope also supported multiple Care Centers in China with an aim to provide care for children with acute medical and special needs—even building, furnishing, and supporting the flagship Care Center, Maria’s Big House of Hope, named in honor of their daughter Maria, who is now with Jesus. In 2020, building upon its Care Centers Legacy, Show Hope launched its Medical Care grants program to financially assist families with medical expenses for their children welcomed home through adoption. To date, more than 200 children and families have been impacted by a Medical Care grant. Furthermore, Show Hope has helped train and equip more than 155,000 parents, caregivers, church leaders, and professionals in their journeys to care for and serve well the children entrusted to them, and finally, with a focus on the future, Show Hope has engaged and mobilized more than 23,500 students in adoption advocacy and support work.

College sweethearts who married in 1984, Mary Beth and Steven have six children—three biological children: Emily married to Tanner; Caleb married to Julia; and Will Franklin married to Jillian, and three daughters welcomed home through adoption: Shaohannah Hope, Stevey Joy, and Maria Sue, who is now with Jesus. Their most treasured title is being called “Grammy” and “PopPops” to their seven beautiful grandbabies, whom they love spoiling.