09 May

Posted at 13:25h in Featured Stories

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""] In the fall of 2023, Shelli's entire life changed in the span of a week. She walked away from an abusive relationship, found out she was pregnant and became homeless. It wasn't the first time she'd struggled with...

07 Mar

Posted at 10:19h in Featured Stories

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""] Zendell’s old life was filled with drugs, broken relationships and years of homelessness. “I lost everything. I didn’t know what to do. I lost people that I’d really depended on. I was sleeping outside,” he remembers. Sometimes he...

17 Jan

Posted at 13:54h in Featured Stories

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""] Once upon a time, Anna had no idea her life could be radically different . . . Different from the addiction, homelessness and mental health struggles that had her in a vise grip for decades. Different from the...

04 Nov

Posted at 15:31h in Featured Stories

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""] If you met 49-year-old Ben today and got a glimpse of his life—the love he has for his wife and newborn son, the satisfaction he finds in his career as an electrician, his active church involvement—you might...

05 Sep

Posted at 12:20h in Featured Stories

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""] Rachelle still gets goosebumps when she remembers her rock-bottom moment. Due to her addiction, her son, Lincoln, had been removed from her care. She’d been kicked out of her house, so she’d resorted to house-hopping and sleeping in...

09 Jul

Posted at 13:07h in Featured Stories

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""] Thirty-two-year-old Junior still remembers what it felt like—coming to after the accidental overdose that nearly killed him. “There were EMTs and police officers over me. They had a defibrillator out. They were doing CPR, doing compressions on me,”...

06 May

Posted at 12:27h in Featured Stories

When Stephanie looks back on her time at Hope Ministries, one of her best memories is watching her youngest daughter, Faith, learn to walk. One-year-old Faith had starts and stops, of course. She’d stumble and then try again. And that’s something Stephanie can relate to ....

11 Mar

Posted at 08:29h in Featured Stories

Mason spent years running. Running away from grief after his mom died when he was only a freshman in high school. Running away from feelings of failure after his time in the Army ended. Running away from broken relationships. “I’ve struggled with my identity, my purpose....

12 Jan

Posted at 13:38h in Featured Stories

Last spring, Jon, 55, was living down in Texas—in a tent by railroad tracks. He’d lost everything due to his addiction. In his words, he was “in a deep, dark place.” He describes homelessness as “loneliness . . . a huge amount of loneliness. You’re always...

12 Jan

Posted at 13:32h in Featured Stories

When Jericka first came to Hope Ministries in 2019, she was in stage 4 kidney failure. She was using a walker, had recently been living in a nursing home, and she’d been told she had the liver function of a 65-year- old who had been...