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<\/a>Steven Curtis Chapman: Well, man that\u2019s such a great profound question but yet so easy to answer in one word because it is faithfulness. It is the faithfulness of God that I can say I have truly come face to face with what we\u2019ve walked through and while I don\u2019t understand so much about God\u2019s ways and His ways have become much more mysterious to me, I think I\u2019m more clueless in many ways but I\u2019m more certain and confident of God\u2019s faithfulness. I mean, I wouldn\u2019t be having this conversation with you right now if God had not been faithful and was not faithful to us to never leave us, never forsake us and to keep His word, to do what He has promised to do, to meet us, to comfort us, to carry us. So yeah, that\u2019s it\u2014the faithfulness of God.<\/p>\n
Bonham: What\u2019s the latest news on your work in China and what you do on behalf of adoption advocacy?<\/p>\n
Bonham: How exciting is it for you to see your sons going through the early stages of their music careers?<\/p>\n Chapman: Oh absolutely. Caleb and Will both have formed a band called Caleb. They\u2019ve been touring with me for about the last five years playing in my band. I\u2019m so proud of them. So excited to get to have worked with them for the last five years. But now they are moving out on their own and kind of out of from dad\u2019s wing, which is very exciting but very sad for me because I\u2019m going to miss them like crazy. They\u2019re great musicians. I\u2019m just bummed that I\u2019m losing such great band members, but especially the fact that they\u2019re my sons. Caleb\u2019s writing some great music. They\u2019re getting some real interest from record labels and meeting with different people and getting to do some concerts and open for some really cool bands and getting some great opportunities. People can check them out. Their music\u2019s on iTunes. They have a Facebook page and all of that stuff. You\u2019ve got to check it out. I\u2019m really excited. And that\u2019s part of the whole recreation that we feel is going on in our lives and in our family. Really, this new season we\u2019re in, we felt like 2011 was a lot of new that was going to start to happen. Little did we know that our oldest daughter was going to come home and announce that she\u2019s pregnant with our first grand baby. She and her husband Tanner came home from Ireland where they\u2019re students at Easter and announced that they\u2019re going to have a little girl and we\u2019re so excited to be the youngest grandparents on record ever. Okay, I\u2019m not sure about that part, but we\u2019re very excited about it. It\u2019s just cool with our boys doing so great and launching out on their own and Emily and Tanner launching out into being parents and that new season of life. All of that is part of what we see God doing in this spirit of recreation that we\u2019re celebrating right now.<\/p>\n Bonham: Are you excited to see a surge of great young singer\/songwriters and is there one in particular that has grabbed your attention?<\/p>\n Chapman: I\u2019ve always, from the very beginning of my musical days, fallen in love with singer\/songwriters. There\u2019s just something about what you can do with a song\u2014the stories you can tell and how you can move somebody. I love songs that move you and tell a story and the great craftsmanship of great songwriters. A couple of those guys I\u2019ve discovered myself the last year or so are going to be on tour with me this fall actually. Josh Wilson is a great singer\/songwriter and a great guitar player too, which I love as a player myself, and Andrew Peterson who I met through something called \u201cBehold the Lamb,\u201d a Christmas musical that he has written and performed each year at Nashville\u2019s historic Ryman Auditorium. He puts on a performance of that with a cast of many other performers. It\u2019s just brilliant and powerful. Those are a couple guys I\u2019m excited about being on tour with. In fact, our tour is called \u201cStories and Songs\u201d Tour. It\u2019s going to be oriented towards telling stories and sharing songs in a very intimate way, a pretty organic way. The band is going to be sitting out there for everybody to see. We\u2019ll be switching around and backing each other up in just a community of songwriter dudes hanging out together.<\/p>\n Check out part one of the Whole Notes interview with Steven Curtis Chapman by clicking HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n Stay up on the latest Chapman news by visiting his official website HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/a>Chapman: Wow. Great, amazing things are continuing with Show Hope and the work specifically in China. We\u2019ve had some surgical teams go there this summer\u2014the first ever team of neurosurgeons\u2014to do life saving surgeries on some of the children that God has brought our way. We are beyond Maria\u2019s Big House of Hope in China and that work there. We continue to be able to help families in their adoption journey with children from all over the world. We\u2019re almost at 3,000 families that we\u2019ve been able to help with financial grants to help them complete their adoptions. That represents children coming home from over 46 or 47 different countries into Christian families. We\u2019ve been a little part of that miracle happening by cheering them on and encouraging them. So it\u2019s just amazing and it continues to grow. Of course the need continues to grow. There are an estimated 140 million orphans in the world. The need\u2019s not going away anytime immediately. So opportunities are continuing to present themselves for us to be a part of the miracle of God\u2019s heart for orphans and really the movement that we see going on all over the world of God\u2019s people responding to His heartbeat for orphans.<\/p>\n<\/a>