The purpose of Hannah's Hope is to develop and administer programs designed to promote the welfare of children. The focus is on assuring that children are able to live with loving parents who offer acceptance and the security of a permanent home.

To realize our purpose, Hannah's Hope will offer free, non-judgmental crisis pregnancy counseling and adoption services to families desiring the permanent placement of a child. Potential adoptive parents will receive guidance in discerning their best adoption option whether a domestic infant placement, working with an international adoptive agency or through the State Department of Children's Services to parent an older child. A home study must be completed for all adoptive parents prior to the placement of a child. The home study process is designed to ensure that we get to know our adoptive families in order to best meet the needs of the children we serve.

From The Book of Discipline of
The United Methodist Church

Children are a gift from God to be welcomed and received. We recognize that some circumstances of birth make the rearing of a child difficult. We affirm and support the birth parent(s) whose choice it is to allow the child to be adopted.

We recognize the agony, strength, and courage of the birth parent(s) who choose(s) in hope, love, and prayer to offer the child for adoption. In addition we affirm the receiving parent(s) desiring an adopted child. When circumstances warrant adoption, we support the use of proper legal procedures.

We commend the birth parent(s), the receiving parent(s), and the child to the care of the Church, that grief might be shared, joy might be celebrated and the child might be nurtured in a community of Christian love.