🌸 Founder · Survivor · Conqueror · Thomecenia's Granddaughter

Born
for This.

Called to this. Built for this. Returning home.

Ashley McClary is a birth mother, a survivor, and a conqueror — returning to Tuskegee to birth something the world has never seen. Because people just need an opportunity.

🌸 Birth Mother 🏀 Champion ✝️ More Than a Conqueror 🏛️ Tuskegee · Returning Home 🌸 Thomecenia's Granddaughter
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Hope
Romans 15:13
God gave hope when there was none — through a phone call from the child she gave life to.
Time
Ecclesiastes 3:11
17 years of silence — God used every single one. Not one moment wasted.
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Chance
Genesis 50:20
She gave him a chance. He gave her a reason to live. Now she opens doors for thousands.

✨ "It's more than just a care package — it's Hope, Time, and Chance." ✨

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The Founder's Story

God Called It.
She Believed It.
Now She's Building It.

"He thanked me for giving him a chance to live. And in doing so — he gave me a reason to live."

Ashley McClary is a birth mother, survivor, and conqueror. She carried 17 years of silence — gave birth, placed her child for adoption, and started in a championship basketball game three days later. Because that is what More Than Conquerors do.

Then the phone rang. Her adopted child called — and spoke life back into the woman who gave him life. That phone call became the heartbeat of Ashley Adoption Project. Because every foster youth aging out has no one making that call. Ashley Adoption Project IS that call.

"Surely you will live and not die." — Psalm 118:17 ✝️
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Ashley McClary

Founder & Executive Director · Ashley Adoption Project Inc.

Birth mother. Survivor. Conqueror. Thomecenia's granddaughter. Returning to Tuskegee to open doors for thousands who have never had one opened for them at all.

17
Years of silence — God used every single one
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Days after giving birth — she started in a championship game
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Phone call that changed everything — and became the whole mission
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More Than
a Conqueror.

We were made to conquer — not less than, but more than. Everything needed to overcome is already living on the inside of us.

Since the foundations of this earth, Jesus dwells within our hearts — His experiences of conquering this entire world, in real life, alive inside of us. Living waters. 💕🌊

Not dead. Not stale. Not stuck. There are streams — "Just like the water.." ✝️

Selah. 🌸

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The Mission She Was Born For

This Was Never About
One Phone Call.
It's About Every Call
No One Made.

Every year, 20,000+ young people age out of foster care — and no one calls. No one opens a door. No one tells them they are worthy of a fully restored life.

Ashley Adoption Project is built to be that call. That door. That village — for every foster youth ages 18–26 and every birth mother who has ever felt invisible.

"Don't be a dream killer — Open Doors." That is not a slogan Ashley invented. It is a legacy she inherited. ✝️

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The Foundation

Whatever Breaks You —
God Uses It for His Glory.

These are testimonies lived out — one foot in front of the other — through the darkest seasons. The bedrock of everything Ashley Adoption Project builds on.

"God calls us His MASTERPIECE!!!! and I BELIEVE IT!! Amen" 🌸 — Ashley McClary · Ephesians 2:10
"Darkness is required — or there would be no reason for light."
"Going THROUGH the darkness is the goal — one foot in front of the other. Then everything after, SHINES. OVERCOMER."
"Overcoming darkness — everything you touch shines. Darkness can't do that. That is what makes you an Overcomer."
"Whatever breaks you — God uses it for His glory."
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The Roots of the Mission

Where the Legacy Was Born

The open door didn't start with Ashley. It started generations before her — in music, in faith, and in a grandmother's prophet hands.

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Thomas McClary
Father · FOUNDER of The Commodores

Thomas McClary is the Founder of The Commodores — who integrated Florida schools through music, opened the door for Bob Marley at Madison Square Garden in 1980 before a Black American audience for the first time, and raised a daughter who understood what it means to never be a dream killer. Every door Ashley opens is one her father modeled first.

🎵 "Don't be a dream killer — Open Doors." That slogan was not invented. It was inherited.

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Thomecenia McClary
Grandmother · Prophet · Born 1914 · South Carolina

Born in 1914 in South Carolina, Thomecenia McClary was a prophet — a woman who walked in divine authority and passed a legacy of faith, resilience, and sacred purpose into her granddaughter's bones. Ashley is not just the Founder of Ashley Adoption Project. She is Thomecenia's granddaughter. She wears that identity like a crown. 🌸

"It takes a village — I had one. Now building one for every young person who doesn't." 🌸

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Sacred Soil · Generational Purpose

Returning to Tuskegee.
A Full Circle Moment
100 Years in the Making.

The thread running through all of it is the same — people just need an opportunity.

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Booker T. Washington
Built Tuskegee from nothing — brick by brick
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George W. Carver
Orphan who became a genius at Tuskegee
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Tuskegee Airmen
Conquered the sky on this sacred soil
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Tom Joyner
Original band with Thomas · $71M for HBCUs
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Thomas McClary
FOUNDER of The Commodores · Opened every door
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Ashley McClary
Returning to birth Ashley Adoption Project on generational ground

"People just need an opportunity." — That is the whole mission. ✝️

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We Are His Masterpieces

Every Person Is
a Masterpiece.

Not broken. Not forgotten. Not a statistic. Every foster youth, every birth mother, every young adult who has ever felt unseen — God calls them His Masterpiece. And so do we.

"For we are God's masterpiece, created in Christ Jesus to do good works." — Ephesians 2:10
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Seen
Every young person is fully seen — not as a case file, but as a person of infinite worth.
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Loved
Love is not a program outcome. It is the foundation. Care packages are love made tangible.
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Restored
A fully restored life filled with identity, purpose, and joy. That is the goal.
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Given a Chance
One open door changes everything. We exist to be that door.
The Village

The People Who
Said Yes First.

Ashley Adoption Project is led by a carefully chosen board of directors and advisory team — people who said yes before the world knew this name. Each member carries a God-given gift, a specific role, and a sacred assignment within this mission. ✝️

Our village brings together legal expertise, financial stewardship, mental health leadership, faith-based media, apostolic covering, housing development, criminal justice advocacy, technology innovation, and spiritual foundation — every gift working together to open doors for the forgotten.

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Board Members Portal

Full board and advisory profiles are available exclusively to AAP team members through our secure private portal.

🚪 Meet Our Team — Members Only

"It takes a village — I had one. Now building one for every young person who doesn't." 🌸

Open a Door

It's More Than Just
a Care Package.

When you give to Ashley Adoption Project, you are not writing a check. You are making a phone call. You are being the reason a young person knows — for the first time — that someone in this world sees them.

🚪 Open a Door Today — Give Now

100% of every gift goes directly to programs and services. ✝️

"See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut." — Revelation 3:8 (NIV)

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