Amid America’s foster care and adoption crisis, a heartwarming new movie tells the powerful story of how one pastor and his wife inspired their church and town to help the “least of these” in the most profound and impactful of ways.
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“Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot,” which hit theaters July 4, came from the mind and heart of writer and producer Rebekah Weigel and her husband, Joshua, who directed the feature.
Rebekah Weigel told CBN News the film’s roots were set in 2013. That’s when the couple adopted two children and soon learned about incredible events that unfolded in Possum Trot, Texas — how a church there adopted 77 children in the deepest of need.
“This issue started to break our hearts, and I started working with different churches to get more people involved in the foster crisis in Los Angeles,” she said. “And I came across this story, and it just really impacted me deeply, because we were in the trenches with our own kids, and to just hear about a whole church stepping in and doing it together was just really inspiring.”
As time went on, Weigel
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