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Lisa HAYMAN<br />

Lisa is the proud mom to three daughters and five<br />

beautiful grandchildren: Gage, Anna Lauren, Bree,<br />

Grayson, and Layla Kate, and a great grandchild,<br />

Rivers Brooke. She and Stanley will celebrate 28<br />

years of marriage in November. She and all her<br />

children and grandchildren live right here in Brandon<br />

and love calling Brandon their hometown. She and<br />

Stanley are active members of Crossgates Baptist<br />

Church where they both have taught and served<br />

for 20 years. Lisa is the owner of Chapman’s Florist at<br />

Park Place Shopping Center in Pearl where she meets<br />

and serves families most every day. Lisa sits on the<br />

board of the non-profit Brooke and Emile’s Kids that<br />

provides school supplies and Christmas for children<br />

that are in the Region 8 System, and has served on<br />

countless organizations affiliated with the floral<br />

industry over the last 25 years.<br />

Robin MOFFIT<br />

I was born in Dunlap, Tennessee. From as early as I can<br />

remember, I wanted to be a wife and mother. When I<br />

graduated from high school, I came to Mississippi to attend<br />

Wesley College. After college, I began my career in teaching<br />

for Rankin County Schools. As the time passed, I was caught<br />

up in teaching and still did not have a family of my own.<br />

God used this period in my life to teach me to be content.<br />

However, I still had the desire to do more. At this point,<br />

God put foster care on my heart. I didn’t even know a foster<br />

parent personally. I argued with God about my ability to<br />

foster because I was a single, working woman. In the end,<br />

I made myself available to God, and He worked out every tiny<br />

detail. In 2010, I became a licensed foster parent. Over a very<br />

long and sometimes painful journey, I have adopted five<br />

children from foster care. Then God placed a special man in<br />

my life. We were married in November of 2020. Terry not<br />

only became my partner, but a father to my five children.<br />

This past May, we were blessed once again with a baby girl<br />

being placed in our care. Now as a stay at home mom, the<br />

days are hectic and sometimes stressful. However, God has<br />

blessed me with a wonderful husband and six beautiful<br />

children, and for that I am so thankful.<br />

28 • NOVEMBER 2023

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