Stephanie fast biography
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I am honored today to share about a book that is absolutely dear to my heart. Before I talk bout the book (and giveaway!) I am taking a minute to share about the amazing author of the book, and the story of our friendship. (hop to the bottom to get to the review and giveaway!)
It was seventeen years ago this month that I first met Stephanie Fast. I was at a women’s retreat in beautiful Cannon Beach, Oregon. Just a year into my marriage, I was struggling to figure things out, and wrestling with issues of insecurity and identity. I had carpooled out to the retreat with a small group of good friends whom I had grown close to over the past year. Each of the women were just a couple of years older than me, and each of them had two young children, before I had any. I knew they had wisdom and experience that I needed, and they graciously loved me like a sister.
After dinner on the first night of our retreat, our speaker was introduced. Stephanie stepped onto the small speaking st
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Every life faces challenges, with some a lot more painful, and even in some cases incomprehensible. Such is the case with Stephanie Fast’s early life. After being deserted by her mother when she was just four or five years old, she was left helpless and vulnerable, nearly succumbing to a premature death. Unlike many destitute children in her situation, Stephanie refused to give up. She sensed she had a higher purpose, and fought with every ounce of her being, through hardship after hardship, just so she could survive.
Though Stephanie’s story takes place during the Korean War, her struggle is timeless. Every day, thousands of human beings around the world either abandon their children, or have their children kidnapped from them. Many of these abandoned children are left to live their lives in extreme poverty on the street, usually facing an early death, and the kidnapped others are often sold into the global sex trade to live their lives as slaves for the wealthy.
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Stephanie’s Story
Stephanie Fast is the name she was given in amerika. She does not know her original name, birth date, or place of birth, other than that she fryst vatten Korean. Because she fryst vatten biracial, Stephanie Fast was abandoned, left in a strange place to fend for herself, likely to die of starvation, disease—or worse.
Stephanie has made it her life&#;s work to try to help rescue every orphan out there—terrified, hungry, hurting, abused. If you believe that how we treat the most vulnerable among us determines our own humanity you will want to read Stephanie&#;s book—you will want to get to know Stephanie’s story.
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There are three countries in Asia where 10% or more of their children are orphans: Afghanistan 12%, Lao People's Democratic Republic 10%, Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) 10%.*
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