In a new “Sunday Special” interview, Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro spoke to Bishop W.C. Martin, the community church pastor who inspired his Texas congregation to adopt dozens of foster children.
Martin and his wife, Donna led 22 families from their congregation at Bennett Chapel in Possum Trot, Texas in coming together to adopt 77 children from the local foster care system.
DailyWire+ is partnering with Angel Studios, which produced The Chosen, in releasing its new movie about the story, Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot.
Sound of Hope is coming to theaters July 4th.
GET SHOWTIMES HERE FOR ‘SOUND OF HOPE’
Kicking off their in-depth discussion, Shapiro asked Martin about the difficulties of welcoming adopted children who potentially need more attention into his house.
“You obviously had kids of your own already. That obviously is a massive decision,” Shapiro said.
Martin agreed, saying his family already had a “boatload” of their own problems since his biological son was born with severe brain damage.
“You don’t get these Gerber babies,” he said. “If you were in the system, they got some problems. They got some trauma.”
“It was difficult, very difficult. It was very hard. It wasn’t easy at all,” Martin said. “I had to almost be a policeman in my own household.”
Martin recalled how one of his adopted sons once lit his bathroom on fire. Thankfully, the house did not burn down because Martin caught the fire in time, he said.
His adopted daughter initially had a stealing problem, Martin said.
“They had been hungry. And she had to feed her little brother so she had to steal food out of the store, and she developed this habit of stealing,” he said.
“I don’t fault her,” Martin added. “When we first got both of them, my wife showed her to the cabinet and showed her, look at the food we got.”
Martin said he was profoundly affected by seeing and caring for children who had been abused in the foster system.
“For me to see life and the beauty of life and to look at what I have witnessed in the eyes and the mind, and how the abuse and neglect and the turmoil that have happened,” he said, “if anybody has any love of God in their heart at all, this will definitely do something to you inwardly.”
Martin said adopting foster children is one way to strive to imitate the life of Christ.
“But you know sometimes I think we’ve got to look beyond ourselves, look beyond where we are and to reach out into this world,” Martin said. “More or less like what Jesus did for us, the suffering that he went through for us that we may have a better life and a greater life.”
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In a new “Sunday Special” interview, Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro spoke to Bishop W.C. Martin, the community church pastor who inspired his Texas congregation to adopt dozens of foster children.
Martin and his wife, Donna led 22 families from their congregation at Bennett Chapel in Possum Trot, Texas in coming together to adopt 77 children from the local foster care system.
DailyWire+ is partnering with Angel Studios, which produced The Chosen, in releasing its new movie about the story, Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot.
Sound of Hope is coming to theaters July 4th.
GET SHOWTIMES HERE FOR ‘SOUND OF HOPE’
Kicking off their in-depth discussion, Shapiro asked Martin about the difficulties of welcoming adopted children who potentially need more attention into his house.
“You obviously had kids of your own already. That obviously is a massive decision,” Shapiro said.
Martin agreed, saying his family already had a “boatload” of their own problems since his biological son was born with severe brain damage.
“You don’t get these Gerber babies,” he said. “If you were in the system, they got some problems. They got some trauma.”
“It was difficult, very difficult. It was very hard. It wasn’t easy at all,” Martin said. “I had to almost be a policeman in my own household.”
Martin recalled how one of his adopted sons once lit his bathroom on fire. Thankfully, the house did not burn down because Martin caught the fire in time, he said.
His adopted daughter initially had a stealing problem, Martin said.
“They had been hungry. And she had to feed her little brother so she had to steal food out of the store, and she developed this habit of stealing,” he said.
“I don’t fault her,” Martin added. “When we first got both of them, my wife showed her to the cabinet and showed her, look at the food we got.”
Martin said he was profoundly affected by seeing and caring for children who had been abused in the foster system.
“For me to see life and the beauty of life and to look at what I have witnessed in the eyes and the mind, and how the abuse and neglect and the turmoil that have happened,” he said, “if anybody has any love of God in their heart at all, this will definitely do something to you inwardly.”
Martin said adopting foster children is one way to strive to imitate the life of Christ.
“But you know sometimes I think we’ve got to look beyond ourselves, look beyond where we are and to reach out into this world,” Martin said. “More or less like what Jesus did for us, the suffering that he went through for us that we may have a better life and a greater life.”
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