When a man stared into the nearly lifeless eyes of a toddler, he likely didn't expect to see God. But the Creator grabbed hold of Alabama's Clay Hammac's heart and opened the door to a new mission field.  

"I remember rolling her poor little body over to photograph and document the injuries and that made it difficult,'' he said. Hammac is the Drug Task Force Commander for the Shelby County Sheriff's Office. "I had worked violent crime scenes before, but this was affecting me like I had never experienced before." 

But God refused to let evil continue. Instead, He stirred up a desire to be a missionary, but in an unlikely way.  

"When people think of mission fields, they usually think of people traveling to Africa or China of India, and yes there are mission fields there, but we have a mission field in our own community,'' he told AL.com. "Never in a million years when Laura and I met in college did we think this is where God would lead us." 

Hammac and his wife Laura have fostered 18 children. 

"That was the farthest thing from our minds. We had just recently welcomed our second child and our family was growing just how we had forseen it,'' he said. "We asked God to open our hearts so that if that was His will, He would open our hearts to that." 

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