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Transforming Lives and Renewing FaithHope Gardens Family Program
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Hope Gardens is a one to two-year transitional living facility for women and their children. During this time, they focus on how God can transform their lives through the power of the Holy Spirit and the truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ.Through the transformational Hope Gardens Family Program, a young woman renews her faith and her life.
Hope Gardens is a program that provides classes including spiritual, mental, emotional, and social health foundations, and practical life skill courses such as financial fitness, parenting, and anger management. In addition, we provide family and youth case managers, chaplains, and mental health counselors to serve the entire family.
The graduating class has been transformed through a spiritual journey that they experienced throughout the six to nine-month program. Through the transformational program, they have renewed their strength, courage, power, faith, and the access to God. While the women work diligently on their personal growth, we are concurrently ministering to their children and teenagers to point them to Jesus and prepare them for the future.
After completing the program, the women transition into a new phase of goal setting, job training, education advancement, or securing employment to invest in their future outside of Hope Gardens.
During our last Hope Gardens graduation this past Summer we had one our graduates embody the epitome of what we do best. Allow me to share with you Desire’s journey and testimony in her own words.“I grew up around drugs, alcohol, weapons, and violence. I’m grateful that despite any of this, I knew that I didn’t want that to always be my life. The first six years of my life when my father was present, he had our family attend church every Sunday. But even after he was sent to prison, God still stood with me. I didn’t really understand much about him, but in my heart, I believed and carried his faith within me. He literally carried me during my 18 years of abuse. I prayed and cried to him every night, feeling hopeless, alone, and questioning him, ‘why me?’ It wasn’t until I left off to college and began to seek answers and healing, that I began to not question him. That God had other plans for me. Even though the message wasn’t clear to me then. Leading up to me becoming homeless, I knew and felt God was trying to send me a message, and boy, was I right. While being here at Hope Gardens, I finally surrendered to God. I was finally able to find peace. I was finally able to breathe, and I was finally able to trust him.I realized God has always wanted me to get my voice back. And if that's not enough of a sign, I’ll be attending CSUN next fall for my masters in Communicative Disorders to become a Speech Language Pathologist, also known as a Speech Therapist. I’m so grateful for the journey, for Hope Gardens, all the staff under URM, my little boys, my brother and sister, my friends, and God. If there’s a will, there’s a way. Thank you.”
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