Download a PDF to read the full newsletter. Or read our featured article below. A Mother’s Day Message Emily’s mother had an addiction problem that poured into her life too. Poor supervision and a lack of intervention caused the daughter to follow the mother’s bad example. Emily sought relief in the same substance that was causing […]
Download a PDF to read the full newsletter. Or read our featured article below. Life Got Complicated Holly had to be transported to River Bend in Springfield for an emergency C-section because of complications with the delivery of her baby. James was born in October. After four days, she was discharged with only one possible destination […]
Download a PDF to read the full newsletter. Or read our featured article below. Awakened To A New Life As a child, Denise bounced from one family member’s household to another, because her mother died when she was just eight-years-old. Early in life she learned, “If I stirred something up, then I had to go live […]
Download a PDF to read the full newsletter. Or read our featured article below. Abuse Caused A Rebellious Life When Noel was two-years-old, his father died. For several years, his single parent working mother raised him and his younger brother. Then an abusive stepfather entered the family and life changed. He said, “The littlest of things […]
Download a PDF to read the full newsletter. Or read our featured article below. New Life Program Rehabilitation is the purpose of our New Life Program. It is to restore men and women to a state of health and constructive activity. We prepare each one for employment and integration into society by removing barriers in the […]
Download a PDF to read the full newsletter. Or read our featured article below. Job Landed With First Application The ink was barely dry on Liz’s resume. While still in jail, she thought about the various restaurants where she would like to work. One of them stood out as a best choice. Years earlier, she had […]
Download a PDF to read the full newsletter. Or read our featured article below. Forgiveness And Healing Some guy down the street in their neighborhood gave two 13-year-old girls marijuana to try, because they asked him for it. Briana remembers thinking, “I had no concern about what it might do to me. Everyone else was doing […]
Download a PDF to read the full newsletter. Or read our featured article below. Homeless Not Jobless Chris has been employed at the same place for four- and-a-half years; he has been sleeping on a Mission bunk bed for just a few months. He needed the Mission so that he could keep his job. This emergency […]
Download a PDF to read the full newsletter. Or read our featured article below. A Baby Was On The Way Dawn was pregnant, homeless, on drugs, poorly nourished, lacking a social network. Those were the facts. Whatever circumstances brought on all these conditions, what mattered now was that a baby was on the way. She said, […]
Download a PDF to read the full newsletter. Or read our featured article below. The Problem Inside Me Kory had a rough start in life. He was conceived in his alcoholic, sixteen-year-old mother. She lived in an unwed mother’s home and gave him up for adoption at birth. He was born with fetal alcohol syndrome and […]
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