Author: McKinley Corbley / Source: Good News Network
Ieshia Champs is a single mother of 5 who has overcome some of the most devastating losses – but thanks to a fateful phone call from her pastor, she is fulfilling her childhood dream of graduating from law school.
Champs has wanted to be a lawyer since she was 7 years old, but her rocky upbringing as a teenager stacked the odds against her.
“I really didn’t have any stable guidance at that time. My mom was addicted to drugs. My dad was deceased. And I was homeless,” Champs told CBS News. “I lived with friends or whoever would take me in. Then I got pregnant with the first of my five children, and things just went from there.”
Champs eventually found stability by dropping out of high school and landing a job at a call center. Then at the age of 24 when she was pregnant with her fourth child, she endured another devastating set of tragedies.
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Champs’s house burned down; she lost her job; her mother died of a stroke; and the father of her children passed away from cancer.
The devastation eventually became too much for the Texas mother and she tried to take her own life.
Shortly after the suicide attempt, however, she…
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