EMMIE BOESE
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — A story of truth and hope is coming to the Historic Hutchinson Fox Theatre on Sunday afternoon. CarePortal and St. Francis Ministries will host a one time showing of Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot.
"It's based off a true story in Possum Trot, Texas of where this church came together in total to adopt 77 children of the hardest children in the foster care system," Regional Manager of CarePortal Hallie Cable said. "And so they reversed the foster care crisis in their county to where they didn't have children waiting for homes. They had homes waiting for children which is just... it's unheard of."
Cable said she and a group of foster-adoptive moms went to a pre-screening of the film in Wichita. She said the moms wanted to help bring the movie to Hutchinson but knew that it would be expensive to show at a theatre due to rental fees, licensing fees of the movie and other additional costs.
"Well two of the moms, their foster-adoptive family said well we're are just going to do lemonade stands and I thought well okay that's awesome we'll see how this goes," Cable said.
The Thiessen and Thompson family of Reno and Rice County together raised over $1500 with their lemonade stands to show the film at the Fox Theatre.
"It was just such an amazing God thing and I think they had the fire department out there donating money and all sorts of things," Cable said. "Like it was just really fun."
Cable said the opportunity to bring Sound of Hope to Hutchinson is important due to a foster care crisis in Reno County.
"We need more foster care homes and so that's really what our encouragement will be is calling on the church, calling on individuals to you know get involved but we need more homes to care for children in Reno County and in the surrounding areas as well," Cable said.
The film will show on Sunday, July 21 at 3 p.m. at the Historic Fox Theatre. The doors open at 2:15 p.m. The first 100 attendees will receive free admission. The admission price after the first 100 is $5 per person.
"We just want to share there's a lot of good that's going on in the foster care system with the agencies and the churches and that's not often what gets reported on," Cable said. "And so we just definitely want our heart to show the positives that are happening and call more people into that with us to join us and help us join the fight for kids is what we want to do."
More information about CarePortal and St. Francis Ministries is available at careportal.org and saintfrancisministries.org.
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