Angel Studios’ New Film Brings Message of Adoption and Hope to the Big Screen

(The Daily Signal) – It’s a story that needed to be told, says Rebekah Weigel, writer and producer of “Sound of Hope,” because Possum Trot is not just another small Texas community near the Louisiana border, but a town that has chosen to live by God’s command to care for orphans.

“It’s an incredible story,” said Weigel, herself a foster mother, adding, “We need to see more churches step up” like Bennett Chapel Missionary Baptist Church has.

In the 1990s, WC Martin, pastor of the small church in Possum Trot, and his wife Donna felt the Lord calling them to adopt a child. Martin began preaching to his rural church what the Bible says about adoption, and the congregation was moved to action. In all, 22 families from the church adopted 77 of the hardest-to-place children in the foster care system.

“There’s probably only a few hundred people in the community of Possum Trot, an unincorporated area,” Weigel says, “but you know, they took it seriously and they did it together as a community. And I think that’s what I really loved about this story, was just the sense of doing it together, like we were carrying each other’s burdens, and, you know, when one was weak, they came together and helped each other, and I think we need more of that.”

The inspiring story of what happened years ago in the small community of Possum Trot will be released July 4 in the feature film “Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot.” Angel Studios is distributing the film. For more information and tickets, click here.

Weigel joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss the true story behind the film and the experience of telling such an emotional story through film. Listen here.