Casting Crowns' lead singer Mark Hall and his wife, Melanie, adopted their 3-year-old daughter, Hope, from China. Their adoption story is documented on the band's new live concert CD/DVD, Until the Whole World Hears, which releases Aug. 31. Hall talked to Charisma about his new daughter and the band's trip to Rwanda.
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How did you and your wife decide to adopt?
Hall: We were on a Steven Curtis Chapman tour and every night Steven would sing "When Love Takes You In," the song of adoption. He would tell the story of adoption and how it's changed his and his family's life. So there I am hearing all this for 84 cities! I realize that God's trying to tell me something. When I told my wife, Melanie, that we're supposed to adopt, she said, "I always knew this. I was just waiting on you to figure this out."
Tell us about your new daughter.
Hall: She's beautiful. She was found 8 days old wrapped in a red blanket outside a hospital. It's such an amazing story of this broken little girl being abandoned out in the middle of the night somewhere in China, and how God is allowing us to be the ones to travel the distance and go over there and pick her up and bring her into our home.
What did you learn during the process?
Hall: The biggest spiritual lesson God taught me happened once I got to China. People had warned me that a lot of these little girls have never even seen a man before so they're a little shy about dads. I mentally prepared myself for this. Hope bonded pretty quickly to Melanie. She would let me give her things but if I tried to pick her up she would cry.
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SOURCE: Charisma Magazine
