Show Up: Step Out of Your Story and into Someone Else's

Oh, the power of a story! No matter the setting, share a slice of time when a simple act results in a real life changed, and everyone listening will gladly leave their seats and step into the narrative.

Show Up is a collection of inspiring stories comprised of fourteen fast-paced chapters, each a self-contained and yet integral-to-the-whole essay. Readers meet people willing to step out of their own busyness or biases and into someone else’s world for a meaningful moment, a month, maybe much longer.

David Staal serves as the president of Kids Hope USA, a Michigan–based national non–profit organization that partners churches with schools to provide mentors for at–risk students. In addition to his position at Kids Hope USA, Staal serves as senior editor and columnist for Christianity Today International. He also chairs the advisory board for a nearby college, and served ten years in leadership for Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Illinois, following a 13–year corporate career. Staal has published five previous titles, all through Harper Collins Christian Publishing / Zondervan: Lessons Kids Need to Learn (2012); Words Kids Need to Hear (2008); Leading Kids to Jesus (2006); Leading Your Child to Jesus (2006); Making Children's Ministry the Best Hour of Every Kid's Week (2004), co–authored with Sue Miller. He lives in Grand Haven, MI, with his wife Becky. His son Scott and daughter Erin attend Valparaiso University.