These HGTV Stars Support Crisis Pregnancy Center’s Life-Giving Mission
By Movieguide® Contributor
HGTV HOMETOWN stars Erin and Ben Napier were recently in Orlando where they visited a house that was used in the movie MY GIRL. It’s undergoing a life-giving transformation.
“We pulled up to find it under renovation, and I took a photo on the steps where Vada sat, when a woman walked out on the porch and invited us to see the inside,” Erin wrote on her social media. “In the movie the house was a funeral parlor, but in real life it’s becoming Hope House (@hope_house_fl): a beautifully renovated home with bedrooms and nurseries for expectant single mothers who find themselves in crisis pregnancies.”
“I felt teary hearing their stories of the money raised by donations and work done exclusively by volunteers to give these women in need a refuge,” she continued. “They will be giving these women life skills with courses in infant care, parenting, mental healthcare, job placement, and Bible classes. They wanted the house to be beautiful so these new mothers see how worthy they are of beauty, and that they can expect this for their lives, no matter how desperate they may feel now. We’ll be giving them a gift and you can too at hopehousefl.org.”
Hope House exists to “serve, equip and empower first-time expectant moms who have chosen life for their babies.”
“Hope House fulfills its mission through unparalleled excellence modeled by staffing, experiences, and facilities with the aim that women would feel their worth,” the organization explains on its website.
“Here’s ANOTHER good story of God doing a big thing today,” Johnson posted. “Almost 12 years ago I sat on the bathroom floor staring at a positive pregnancy test scared to death and certain I had ruined my entire life. Friday I open the doors to a maternity home.
“A few weeks ago I saved a prayer to my Lock Screen that read ‘Show me glimpses of Your divine nature and power by showing off through my life.’ He is doing just that,” she continued. “Today I had the honor of showing @erinapier and @scotsman.co our ‘hometown’ renovation and tell them all about @hope_house_fl and about an hour ago she shared about us to her 1.5 million followers.”
“God can redeem it all,” Johnson concluded, “take even the most shameful parts of your life make them your story, and use it all for his glory. Every time. Always.”
Movieguide® previously reported on Erin’s faith:
HOME TOWN’s Erin Napier is sharing some of her favorite things, from the best place to pray to her favorite food.
In a Q&A for Guideposts, Napier said her go-to place to pray is “bed, before falling asleep. Before babies, the church altar late at night.”
The HGTV star also shared her favorite Bible verse, Matthew 6:25–26:
“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?”
“I am a worrier, and it gives me peace if I can really focus on those verses in stressful times,” Napier explained.
