Favorite Photo Friday {SCC!}

OK, this HAS to be my favorite photo this week!

We were very privileged last night to be able to volunteer at the Steven Curtis Chapman concert in Lincoln.  Because we have a connection now to Show Hope, we received an email letting us know about the concert and that they needed volunteers to help with the Show Hope table at the concert.  We were all for it!  They are helping us with some finances towards Le An's adoption, we can help them out!  We met some new friends and got to see an AWESOME concert!  Also performing were Andrew Peterson and Josh Wilson, a couple of relatively new faces on the Christian music scene.

During intermission, I asked the guy in charge of the Show Hope table (D.) if we could possibly meet Steven.  He said, "No, Steven isn't doing that."  OK, so we weren't any worse off now than we were before.  No problem.  We enjoyed the second half of the concert and went back to the table to help finish up the night.  Soon after we got back there, he pointed to us and said, "You guys, come with me.  I've got a favor to ask."  He started heading over to the other side of the (very large) lobby and we got to thinking "could it be?".  We realized that yes, it could be!  I asked if I could go back and get my camera.  I did and then he led us and two other gals down to the left front of the house (stage right) and told us to wait there for the tour manager to come and get us.  Steven was finishing up the concert with praise and worship music.  We waited.

Meighan started getting tired and I looked at the security guy who had just spoken to someone on his headset.  He said there had been a medical emergency in the lobby so everyone was occupied with that but we just needed to wait.

Soon, the tour manager came and got us and another family.  They lined us up against a wall and said Steven would be out to greet us.  He soon came out and greeted the first family.  When he was done he asked if they wanted to take a picture.  They didn't have a camera but I offered to take their picture and they could give us their email address and I'd email it to them.

Then he got to us.  We were able to PERSONALLY thank him and Show Hope for the grant that we received!  We showed him a picture of Le An and one of the two gals took several pictures of our interaction and then the above posed picture.

Then he went on to the other two gals.  I waited and took their picture with him and got their email address.

What an awesome evening!  I actually never thought we would get to meet him (although I kept thinking it would be really neat and cool to meet and thank him)!  He is such a nice person for the few minutes we were able to visit with him.

I had given D. our blog card and he gave us his card with his email address on it.  He seemed very interested in following our journey to our son who is in Henan Province -- the same province where Maria's Big House of Hope is!  I would LOVE to be able to visit Maria's Big House of Hope while we are there but I think our time will be so limited with a visit to the orphanage and adoption activities.  I also can't wait for the day when we will be able to donate to Show Hope and "give back" to an organization that has helped us tremendously!

Thank you, Show Hope!  Thank you, D.!  Thank you, Steven!