Based on the true story of how Reverend Martin and his wife Donna Martin, in their small Bennett Chapel church of Possum Trot, East Texas, were able to help 77 of the most difficult to place children become adopted by 22 families.
According to executive producer Letitia Wright, the film's message was to make the audience ask itself, "How do we as a community, not only the church, but how do we rally everyone to step in for the kids, because they are our future."
Of her role, Elizabeth Mitchell said, "I think the ultimate thing that I take from this is, you're never so small that you can't make a difference. Like, it's just extraordinary to me what we can do if we decide we're gonna make things better."
During the sermon in which Reverand Martin strikes his hand on the cymbals, explaining that if he preaches to help the widows and orphans without taking action, all he is producing is noise is a reference to 1 Corinthians 13; "If I speak in tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or clanging cymbal."