Mary Beth Chapman is the Co-founder and Chairman of the Board of Show Hope, an internationally recognized nonprofit organization dedicated to adoption advocacy and support, as well as a “New York Times” best-selling author and speaker. She holds an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Anderson University and was inducted into the Adoption Hall of Fame in November 2023 by the National Council for Adoption.

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 nearly 9,000 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, and since then, more 100 families have been recipients of a Medical Care grant. Furthermore, Show Hope has helped train and equip more than 140,000 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 23,000 students in adoption advocacy and orphan care 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. 

In the fall of 2020, Mary Beth Chapman launched her online vintage store The Blue Petal, which features specially curated vintage glassware, planters & succulents, handmade candles, and more.