The tiny Texas town of Possum Trot has no stoplights, no street names -- and one huge heart.
Over
the last 16 years, 25 families in the working-class community have
adopted 76 children in need, opening their homes in a town that is
struggling financially to the point where the local food bank is empty
and has been closed for months.
Sixteen years ago, W.C. Martin,
the pastor of the local Bennett Chapel Baptist church, helped organize
his congregation to help foster children in need, believing they should
have regular homes after so much hardship.
“It’s not a whole lot
that we have to offer children right here in Possum Trot,’’ Martin told
NBC News’ Craig Melvin. “But love, peace and joy and happiness – we can
offer them that.’’
Martin and his wife, Donna, have adopted four children themselves.
“The
challenge with the kids is (them not) really, really trusting the love
that you have to give them unconditionally,’’ Donna Martin told Melvin.
“Some of them were beaten, molested by family members, just the most
horrible things.’’
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