What my prayer has been and was from the very beginning in my marriage and in my family is God I want more than anything for my wife to be able to stand and my children to be able to stand and say, albeit very imperfectly, that man was determined to love God and love us.

Welcome to the Jesus and us.

Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast.

Our guests are a pair of father-daughter duos who have enjoyed a close relationship in the various

seasons of their family's lives and and discuss the impact of fatherhood and being fathered.

Christian singer-songwriter Stephen Curtis Chapman and his daughter Emily Chapman Richards,

and country music artist and Christian music producer Mark Miller and his daughter Madison Brown.

As Stephen Curtis Chapman grew up in Paducah, Kentucky he fell in love with the way his father not only expressed

himself through music, but also the way he expressed his deep love for God.

Stephen worked hard to carry these lessons into his own family. Today, he his daughter Emily tell us what it was like growing

up in the Chapman House and how as a child Emily led the family to become the ardent

supporters of adoption they are today.

I'm Stephen Curtis Chapman. I am a singer-songwriter.

People probably most know if they recognize those three names at all. Maybe it's from some of the music that I've

written and recorded over the last 32 years now. Wow, can't even believe that.

Hi my name is Emily Chapman Richards and I am the lucky, lucky eldest daughter of Mary Beth

and Stephen Curtis Chapman here in Franklin, Tennessee.

I am currently serving as the executive director of Show Hope,

a nonprofit organization that seeks to care for orphans

by engaging the church and reducing barriers to adoptions co-founded by my parents in 2003 and I've been here for a decade working which is I love. But probably most importantly I am the wife of

Tanner Richards and the mother to three beautiful ladies, Eile, Della, and Verdi, we

live here in Franklin.

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