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Our Child - The Imperative Connection between Birth-Parents and Adoptive-Parents | Katie Biron
It made me proud as her mom that because of my efforts, we were able to fill in some of the holes in her story that occur when adoption...

Shannon Hicks
Mar 31, 20197 min read
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Our Journey into Fostering and Adoption - It is Miraculous and it Hurts!
The first conversation I had - with the woman who would later become my wife - was about our desire to help hurting kids. We never wanted...
yjug
Mar 29, 20196 min read
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No regrets in Death - Make it Count; When it Counts
Why do we wait to be stripped of life, strength, wealth or dignity to change and/or say the things we ought to? What would it take to...

Shannon Hicks
Mar 10, 20194 min read
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Get Instigated, Inspired, and Encouraged - For the Orphan | Refresh Conference March 15th, 2019
NOTE: Sponsorships are still available, contact us to find out more. For the last three years we have attended the Refresh Conference in...

Shannon Hicks
Feb 27, 20192 min read
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Hope Happens at the City Dump | Puerto Vallarta
In 2006, the “Familias de la Esperanza” - Families of Hope - mission discovered that whole families were living and working in the city...

Shannon Hicks
Feb 27, 20196 min read
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Kayla | From Disposable to Loved in Peru
KAYLA WAS ABANDONED IN THE JUNGLE AT 10 YEARS OLD. SHE LIVED ON THE STREETS OF THE CITY. THEN SHE WAS TAKEN IN BY A FAMILY UNTIL SHE HAD...

Shannon Hicks
Feb 20, 20199 min read
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Compassion and Atheism Saved My Life
I will be honest, I am a Christian, but it was not always thus. For the first 30 years of my life, I oscillated between systems of...

Shannon Hicks
Feb 14, 20195 min read
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School Shooter or Doorman - What do you want your child to be?
If your son or daughter were being bullied, would you want them to fight back or be a Doorman? Note: I did not say Door-mat! What...

Shannon Hicks
Feb 9, 20193 min read
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Today is My Youngest Son’s 1st Birthday.
Today is the day my second son was born, and now I watch him grow on Facebook. February 1st, 2018 Jimmy* was born, but I was not there....

Shannon Hicks
Feb 1, 20198 min read
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80-90 PERCENT OF CHILDREN IN ORPHANAGES ARE NOT ORPHANS
Yes, you read that correctly. So why are they there? Imagine as a parent living in poverty, unable to properly feed and house your...

Shannon Hicks
Jan 29, 20192 min read
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Reflections on Hope(lessness)
The Latest National Foster Care/Adoption Trends 2008-2017 Each year the Children's Bureau, utilizing the Adoption and Foster Care...

Shannon Hicks
Jan 15, 20192 min read
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#MoreofThisPlease
We had a beach trip to the beach this week. It went well. But it touched me in a way that I'm still processing. I've been touched by...

Shannon Hicks
Dec 14, 20182 min read
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A Sister for Daisy; an Adoption Story
November 21, 2014. She was little and she was perfect. She was prayed for, specifically by her sister-to-be. She was almost 8 weeks old,...

Shannon Hicks
Dec 3, 20154 min read
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