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Barry Posey

Barry Posey

Senior Pastor at True Light Baptist Church in Walker, Louisiana, and father of Blake Posey, a Livingston Parish teen diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy whose community rallied around him.

Aug 20, 2026

2:48
Tell us your family dynamics and who is Blake.
2:52
So my wife Brandi and I, we've been married for almost 20 years, and we tried to conceive children for the first several years we were married and were unable to.
3:02
So God kind of directed us in the direction of fostering and then eventually fostering to adopt.
3:11
So in 2014, Blake and his two older brothers, Brandon and Bear, moved in, and we started fostering them.
3:23
About a year later, we adopted them.
3:26
So in August of 2015, we adopted them.
3:30
And in the time we were fostering them, we noticed that there were some issues with Blake, with his ability to move.

14 MINS LATER

17:35
No, no, no. I'm going back story-wise telling that how did you guys reach out to us? Did we happen to see your story? I can't remember now.

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