by Ellen Riggsbee | Sep 8, 2022 | Hephzibah
Mary Anne Brown: A Champion for Children and Families In 1976, Mary Anne Brown followed her heart to Hephzibah Home and began a 41-year journey that would bring hope and healing to thousands of children and their families. When Brown—an Oak Park wife and mother with a...
by Ellen Riggsbee | Sep 8, 2022 | Foster Care, Hephzibah, News
Keith Elkins – Once a Hephzibah Kid, Always a Hephzibah Kid It began in 1935 when two distressed parents—financially strapped and broken in spirit by the relentless hardships of the Great Depression—were forced to accept the devastating reality that they could not...
by Ellen Riggsbee | Sep 8, 2022 | Hephzibah, News
Peter Murphy’s Journey of Hope and Healing The year was 1982 and it was shaping up to be the worst year ever for five-year-old Peter and his older siblings John, Marita and Anne Marie, who had just lost their single adoptive mom, Elizabeth, to pneumonia. Peter, now...