Sound of Hope: Step Up for Children

Angel Studios has released another heartfelt movie trying to steal America’s hearts this summer.

Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot is an insightful glimpse into the lives of Reverend R.C. Martin, and his wife, Donna, of Possum Trot, Texas, who inspired families in their rural church to adopt 77 children out of foster care.

DailyWire+ partnered with Angel Studios to bring the film to theaters around America.

After the Sound of Freedom called America to fight back against human trafficking last summer, this must-watch movie does a wonderful job of shining a light on a little-known crisis happening across the country in the lives of thousands of children.

As the movie says, “the state ain’t no family.”

Yet, unfortunately, for the nearly 109,000 children waiting to be adopted out of foster care, the state has become their families.

According to data from the federal Office of the Administration for Children and Families, in the 2022 fiscal year 570,00 children passed through the foster care system across the country. At the end of the year, nearly 400,000 children still remained in the system.

While for the last five years the number of children in foster care has been trending down, there is still a critical need in many communities for families to step up and provide either temporary shelter or adopt the most vulnerable. 

Sound of Hope called on families, but especially churches and other religious organizations, to step up to help fill this need. 

Children in Need of Family

Throughout America, there are nearly 350,000 Christian congregations, and millions of worshippers every Sunday. That means that if just one family for every three churches stepped up to adopt a child, there would be no children left waiting for a family.

This is how the story of Reverend R.C. Martin and the Possum Trot community should inspire everyone. 

Not only did they adopt 77 children, they adopted every child available for adoption within one hundred miles of Possum Trot. 

The movie showed the hardships that come with adopting out of foster care, but it also showed the beauty. It showed the importance of community as the Martin’s church built one that supported families as they all navigated through the foster care system together . . . as they served the children who needed help the most.

Since the movie first came out, thousands have come together in theaters across the country, as it brought in nearly $12 million. With a 97 percent positive rating of Rotten Tomato, the audience seemed to approve of the movie too.

Yet, while it is one thing to watch a movie, it is another to be motivated to action … and that is what the movie calls America to do.

Just as Donna Martin encouraged her community to not just hear Christ’s words in the Gospel of St. Mark but to act upon them, so does their inspirational story call on all to act, either in the small ways or in the big.

Just as the movie says, “there shouldn’t be a child without a home. We can turn this whole thing around.”

So, if you watched the movie weeks ago and forgot about it, remember its true message. If you haven’t watched it yet, be sure to catch this story of a church family who came together to change the lives of dozens of children … and their whole community.

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