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Beyond Faith: How One Community Raised 70 Kids from the Texas Foster Care System [ChronicleOfSocialChange.org]

 

Diann Sparks hadn’t planned on adopting, until one of her sisters asked her to attend an adoption class in a town 120 miles away from her home in Possum Trot, part of east Texas’ Shelby County. At the time, Sparks had one biological daughter and was a single parent working a full-time job at a chicken plant.

Possum Trot, a deeply religious black Baptist community in a mostly white county, doesn’t show up on Google maps. It has no streetlights, no post office, no grocery store and a lot of dirt roads. Its small church, Bennett Chapel, is a hub that’s provided spiritual and physical support for its members.



[For more of this story, written by Beth Cortez-Neavel, go to https://chronicleofsocialchang...er-care-system/28050]

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