Renew. Restore. Rejoice. A SafeHouse Ministries Podcast

Andrea's Story Part 2: Through the Sorrow to find Serenity, and Jesus was the Answer all Along.

• Phil Shuler • Season 2 • Episode 27

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Andrea's Story is a beautiful picture of growth over time and of how God walks with us through the sorrow in our lives, even when much of it is of our own making.  Andrea has faced some crazy and life-threatening situations, but God has brought her through, answered her prayers, and given her a renewed hope and restored opportunity to pour her life into her children as well as into so many others she meets along the way.

Phil Shuler:

HellO, and welcome to Renew, Restore, Rejoice, the Safe House Ministries podcast, where we share stories of the power of God to change lives through Safe House Ministries. Safe House Ministries is based out of Columbus, Georgia, and we are a ministry that exists to love and serve people who have been affected by addiction, homelessness, and incarceration. I'm your host, Phil Shuler, the Director of Development for Safe House Ministries here in Columbus, Georgia. Safe House serves over 1, 100 people each month as they transition back into our community. Safe House provides an abundance of services including 213 beds for homeless individuals and families, case management for obtaining job skills and long term employment. Over 300 hot meals every day, free clothing, and so much more. One of the most incredible services that Safe House provides is our free 9 12 month intensive outpatient substance abuse program, which is state licensed, CARF accredited, and has no wait list. Almost 100 percent of individuals staying in our shelters who follow our three phase program become fully employed within a few months. And 68 percent of individuals who stay at least one night with us End up finding work and moving into their own home. Thank you for being with us today and listening to our podcast. We hope you enjoy this week's episode.

Phil:

So you got to the truck stop, you got with to your dad with

Andrea:

my dad and came back up to to Brazelton and I met met a guy who is my three year old son's father, Jackson. We were tired of life in Georgia. And we were both headstrong and still kind of wild in a sense, but I wasn't on drugs, and still hadn't haven't been since that day, but I was just ready for something different in life. And so we struck out for Colorado after

Phil:

that's a big move.

Andrea:

Yeah. Yeah. It was just us his Mustang and what we had.

Phil:

Yeah.

Andrea:

I drove the whole way because he didn't have driver's license.

Phil:

Oh,

Andrea:

and it's some kind of miracle that we didn't get pulled over on the way there because we had a fake tag with someone else's insurance. And I just, I don't see how we made it there and, just didn't get stopped, but you got there, but we got there and um He's, He's, you know, started his music career and, I was all supportive and all that. And then it turned into, partying and cheating and, having, first one thing or another in our bedroom. And that's not the way it should be and I got tired of it and I tried to leave him and he wouldn't let me. So we got into this physical altercation. He was very close to crushing my windpipes. I'm trying to check me out whenever I was trying to leave and the guy that we were staying with happened to, come out of his bedroom. He was fixing to leave to work and he was like, hey, man, what are you doing? And he let me go and I just walked out the door.

Phil:

You have been in some scary situations.

Andrea:

And I got it because we were able to find somebody with with an old school Honda Civic. And we bought it for 200 bucks. And he gave it to me so that I would stop driving his Mustang. And just got in my car and I left. And I left what clothes I had, behind. And, blocked his number. And I put an ad on Craigslist. Um, you know, That I was stranded in Colorado, didn't have any family. And this guy saw the ad and, he had four campers, four vacant campers on his property and he let me come and stay in one of those, while I was trying to get myself together.

Phil:

The genuinely nice guy, wasn't trying to get anything from you?

Andrea:

No, he was genuinely

Phil:

great guy. Wow that's good to know.

Andrea:

He said that, what drew him to me was that, I reminded him a lot of his late wife. And whenever we met, he said, I can't turn somebody with your kind of spirit away.

Phil:

I

Andrea:

just can't do it.

Phil:

Wow, so he let you stay in the camper?

Andrea:

Yeah, so he let me stay in the camper. And then I had picked up some gigs with Labor Ready. It was like a day labor thing. And I was starting to save a little bit of money and the last one that I picked up was some smoke cleanup from all the wildfires up in Gamby and Great Lakes area. Awfully cold place. And they would put us about in a hotel and they would pay us like a per diem every day plus feed us breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

unknown:

Nice.

Andrea:

It's in the hotel that they put us in was fabulous. Absolutely fabulous. It was hand built. It was like a hand built cabin hotel.

unknown:

Wow.

Andrea:

Beautiful place, but I just, I couldn't deal with the cold. Yeah. Negative 12 degree weather. Oh I can remember before I left I found out I was pregnant with Jackson and I was coming down with a cold at the same time. And I was like And my roommate, she's girl, I think you're pregnant. I said, there's no way there's no way and so she, she took it upon herself to walk across the street to the dollar store and buy me a pregnancy test. And she said tell me you're not, and I would be mad at you. And I was like, okay, so I went in and I did what I had to do. Take the pregnancy tests and I flipped it over and bam I was pregnant

Phil:

wow.

Andrea:

And I couldn't do anything but hit my knees because I didn't want to be tied to this monster. But, God is God. And he said it's time for you to have a second chance at being a mom.

unknown:

Oh, which was your prayer request. Which was

Andrea:

my prayer request.

unknown:

Yeah.

Andrea:

And I had Jackson in July. December of 21 December of 22, I'd gotten a phone call. No, December of 21, I'd gotten a phone call. That they had found my husband, non responsive, on the floor of somebody's apartment. And the girl that told me said that, she believed it, it was foul play. Because she wasn't there whenever it happened. She just came in and he was there by himself, but the people he was hanging out with I mean he was known To do somebody over just to get his fix whatever and so I fully believed that there was a lot of foul play Involved in his death

Phil (2):

Wow

Andrea:

But December the 15th, I got a phone call that he had been found unresponsive and that they were rushing him to the hospital. They tried CPR. They tried Narcan. It was a little over an hour and a half between whenever they found him and whenever they got him hooked up to the machines at the hospital. And so he was already a vegetable at that point. But I told my mom and, she said, I said, I need to go and be with my husband. I said, I know that we haven't had the greatest marriage, I said, but he's still my husband. At the end of the day, he's still my husband, and I feel like that's what I need to do. And we packed everybody up, and it was me, her, Jackson, and Tyson.

Phil:

Okay, how old were Jackson and Tyson?

Andrea:

Tyson was, I want to say eight.

Phil (2):

Okay.

Andrea:

Yeah, Tyson was like eight or nine. Jackson. Was probably about three or four months old, maybe.

Phil (2):

Okay

Andrea:

so we went up instead with my best friend in winder. She and I had met cause the way on the dirt road that I grew up on, she and her family lived a few houses up at the end of the road and she would always drive by, and her husband was one of those controlling I don't want you to have any friends kind of people.

Phil (2):

Yeah. Yeah.

Andrea:

And so whenever he would be at work, she would make it a point to stop and just sit there in the road, and talk to me. Cause I'd always sit at the end of my driveway just to be away from my mom. So we bought a relationship. We met when I was 17 and we built a relationship, we became best friends, even though she was a lot older than me.

Phil:

Wow.

Andrea:

So we, anyway, we wouldn't stay with her. I spent a lot of time at Northeast Georgia in Gainesville. I'm grateful, to, to my mom, especially, during this time of because there was nobody that's willing to watch my kids, for me to go in and do what I needed to do and to have some kind of peace and closure. And, my mom, she, she bought pizza, she bought baby snacks, and she said we pulled up to the hospital. She said we'll be here in the parking lot for as long as we need to be. And I went in and spent some time with him and I prayed over him and his, a lot of his family was there and of course they hated me with a passion. A few select members of his family, actually knew the situation. Like I was a good girl whenever he met me, and I tried my best to get him. To cross over. It's just, it wasn't in the cards for him. And December the 29th he had been on life support 17 days, I think, yeah, about 17 days and I had to meet his mom and his older brother up there to make the decision to pull the plug. And that was Probably one of the most heartbreaking decisions that I had to make, but I knew that he wouldn't have a life as a vegetable. A life in a wheelchair, not being able to do anything, being fed through a tube, that's just no life for a person. And he couldn't give any kind of Response whenever somebody walked in the room or when somebody touched him So I knew that it was just machines that were keeping him alive at that point and he would always talk about You know taking himself out because he wanted to be with His twin sister died of breast cancer

unknown:

Wow,

Andrea:

and you know since her death his life has just been really dark so I just I asked his mom and his brother to give me a minute You know, along with him and I prayed over him because I wasn't 100 percent sure that, he would be going to heaven. And so I stepped into the gap as his wife, and I asked god You know while he still while his heart was still beating I asked god to forgive him and to just take him in his wings Before this decision was made and The lights in the room just went dim, and I could hear bells in the distance. And I said, Okay, God. It's time. I went and got the nurse and his mom and brother came back in the room. We all made the unanimous decision to pull the plug on him. And, about 15. 15 minutes or so later he was gone

unknown:

Wow,

Andrea:

so then after that, I'll be back in with my mom, I went back to my mom's whatever and I met this guy who is My daughter ellison. I'll call her ella for short. Yeah,

Phil:

that's pretty

Andrea:

Thank you. She's two now. I met her father and this was one of those I'm lonely. I just want companionship kind of relationships because it turned out that he was a married man.

unknown:

No.

Andrea:

he and his wife worked two different shifts. She worked during the day and he worked graveyard shift. And conveniently where he worked was down the street from my mom's house. And I told him whenever we started fooling around, I was like, what are you going to do whenever I come up pregnant? And Because he didn't want to use protection. I offered, and offered, and he didn't want to. I said, what are you going to do when we get pregnant? And he said we'll cross that bridge when we get to it. And, that February, I had moved out of my mom's house because, there just wasn't, there weren't any opportunities in Meriwether County for pregnant women. productivity or, anything positive. So I I moved in with my best friend and, this guy was, he was a really decent guy. If I needed something, if I needed gas in my car, if I needed cigarettes or whatever, he would always give me the money with, nothing in return being asked or anything. And so I pulled one of my best friends starts and I think I jinxed myself. I called this guy and I said I told him I was pregnant before I even knew that I was pregnant, just trying to hold on to it. And something just didn't feel right, so I went to the Dollar Tree and I got one of the got a pregnancy test and I came back and I took it and I said,

Phil:

You actually were.

Andrea:

I was actually pregnant. And so that was, I could, in the back of my mind I could hear God laughing at me. Because. I was getting what I wanted, and it was so sublime. Like I, I pulled somebody else's trick and it backfired on me. And so it was the icing on the cake because, I'd lost a relationship with my two older kids. And so now I had the chance to start over with my two younger kids from the beginning. And raise them the way that they should be and give them the mother that they deserve. And here I'm in the process of trying to rekindle my relationship with Tyson. Addison, I know, she's going to come back one day and she's going to want to know.

Phil:

Yeah.

Andrea:

Because she has started asking questions about her siblings and wanting to know more about me via email. And so I said Okay, God, that's your side. I know that she's gonna come back one day and she's gonna, I'm gonna have the chance to explain to her, the real story.

Phil (2):

Yeah.

Andrea:

And Tyson has autistic, by the way. Wow. And he has several other special needs issues. So what led me to the Grays House is, Tyson. Tyson wants me to go outside and, get some fresh air and get off of his electronics and everything. And he was asked to push Ella in her little Fisher price car, around the yard and that he wasn't with it. And, I was in the kitchen cooking dinner that day. And

Phil:

this was at your mom's house. This is at my mom's house.

Andrea:

And I hear my mom screaming, no Tyson stop. And I come out and he's got his fists. John back punching Ella in the face And I dropped the skillet in the middle of the floor and it broke I ran outside and I used a little bit more force than necessary to separate him from Ella And so it left a little mark on his face Because he's crouched down at waist level. So I just pushed him but I use a little bit more force than I should have. And in the middle of getting him help I had to take him to Piedmont. And from there they, they did a 1013 on him and they sent him out to Laurel Heights in Decatur, I think.

unknown:

Wow.

Andrea:

Which is like a a mental health facility for kids with special needs. But in the middle of that defects was called and they came out did, the home inspection. The home was in deplorable conditions, which, at this time I'd, the only reason I'd moved back in with my mom was to be her caregiver because her health took a dramatic turn for the worse. It was October of 20. After Jackson was born, she fell in front of a, in front of a, in front of a restaurant. And after that it just sparked a domino effect of health issues that, she couldn't control. And for the next three years, almost, she was bedside. She couldn't do anything but stand up and do a 280 degree turn to sit on her bedside potty. Send up and do another 280 degree turn to get back in her bed. So I was having to be her advocate in a lot of ways. Doing her cooking, making sure she got to her daughter's appointments. Med management, wound care, the whole nine yards. And, that with, taking care of, now three kids. I had Ellison and Jackson. And Tyson and, trying to take care of all of them, which I'm notorious for putting my all into taking care of, my kids and neglecting myself in a lot of ways. so I'd neglected myself and got overwhelmed with responsibility, and I was the only one physically able to do anything in the house. It got Beyond my control.

Phil (2):

Yeah,

Andrea:

and so whenever defects came out, they Deemed the house, you know in deplorable conditions and they said that jackson, not yeah jackson Ella and I had to leave the home and because my mom had guardianship of tyson he had to stay with her and it was you know for those reasons upon As well as safety reasons With the two babies being around Tyson we had to leave and we didn't have anywhere else to go. And so this was like middle of July of this year. So we went up to up to Madison, Georgia, to my aunt's house where my dad is staying and we were in a tent for about four days. in the middle of July.

unknown:

Wow.

Andrea:

It was awful.

unknown:

Yeah. Yeah.

Andrea:

If we could find water during that time, like we were in it. It was like, like high 90s, like low 100s easily up there. And we're in the middle of like this big pine tree thicket. So there's not much breeze coming from anywhere. But A friend of mine messaged me on Facebook and told me about the Valley rescue mission. And she pulled some strings to get me and Jackson and Ella into there. And we went there was another family there that, we were like oil and water, her kids were a little bit older than my kids. And kids are they're cool, calm, and collective to a point, but if you start poking, then they're gonna, they're gonna poke back.

Phil:

Yeah. Okay. This was at Damascus Way? Yes. Okay.

Andrea:

So I confronted the girl about, an incident that I saw with my own two eyes. And then, it was like in the middle of lunch and we exchanged words and she went back and told the staff that I had threatened her and I did not, but it is what it is. I think it was God anyway, because we weren't meant to be there. We weren't going to be able to move forward in progress with being at Damascus Way. I don't knock the program by any means. It's a great place, but it just wasn't the place for us and so we were kicked out on Labor Day. And I'm sitting here okay, God, we've got nowhere to go. There's no more family for us to lean on. I'm calling everybody that I can call. And it's on Labor Day. Nobody's in the office. They're like you're going to have to call back. On Monday, I'm like, I can't sleep in my car with my kids until Monday, I need to talk to somebody. And Miss Brandy with Damascus Way, she had sent me some resources and conveniently one of the resources was the Grace House.

Phil:

With Safe House Ministries? Yes. Yeah.

Andrea:

Yes, and I called the number and, I'm assuming it was Christy's cell phone number. Either that or the the line was forwarded to her cell phone. And I explained to her the situation. This was probably about 8 or 9 o'clock at night on Labor Day. And she said, yeah, I've got two rooms available and one is in a unit with a mom who has one kid. And the other is with a mom that has five kids. So you pick. And I said in all honesty, I love kids and all, but in all honesty, I've got enough chaos with my own team. So I'll take choice a and it turned out to be great. Like whenever we got there, like they were so loving that was that night. So it was that night.

Phil:

So Christie worked it out for you to come that night. Yes. Wow. That's amazing.

Andrea:

She asked me what time I expected to be there so that she could let the staff that was working that night know when to expect me in, to be able to let me in the gate. And it was about an hour drive from Green, from Hogansville to Columbus.

Phil (2):

Yeah.

Andrea:

So we were hanging out with Tyson and a friend of mine from church who now has custody of Tyson. Okay. We were hanging out with them at at the lake. That day just to have somewhere safe to go and

unknown:

yeah,

Andrea:

Not have the kids in a hot car, that kind of thing. And so I was, I'm sitting on the beach calling everybody I can call. And then I finally get in touch with somebody that happens to be the grace house.

unknown:

Wow.

Andrea:

And I told Christy, like I said, I told her my story, told her the situation that I was in and she was more than willing To let me come in that night, whereas, I think most places probably would have been like, yeah, you can come in tomorrow. She was willing to let me come in that night. And she I told her that I would be there on 10 o'clock a little after. And miss Kim was the staff that was working that night. And she, I was scared to death because where books are deceiving.

unknown:

Yeah. I will absolutely

Andrea:

say that looks are very deceiving. The route that Google took us into, to get to the Grace House, I was like, Oh God, where are we going? Like somebody is going to jump out of the bushes and rob me or something. But it was so different whenever I got there, I pull up into the parking lot and I'm like, Oh God, what am I doing here? Where have you got me at? But then whenever I enter the gate, things are so different. The staff, they are so compassionate and they are so caring and patient and Understanding.

unknown:

Wow.

Andrea:

It was amazing. Like I was really shameful, I felt a lot of guilt, you know for dragging myself and my kids mostly you know through this homeless situation and so I Hit this fight or flight mode And I, I got in touch with some resources that they have, like United Way, places to help, get my kids clothing, Salvation Army and places like that. And the what's the name of the Connections?

Phil (2):

Oh, yeah.

Andrea:

It's a big place they work with. And Miss Ada, the lady that runs Connections is actually who I got my job through.

Phil (2):

Wow.

Andrea:

She introduced me with this great family. They needed somebody to sit with their mom Just as, companionship and, medication monitoring and that sort of thing and I'm first aid and CPR certified and They put me through a CPI class which is like Gosh I've lost the word Crisis prevention.

Phil (2):

Okay, yeah, okay.

Andrea:

Because the one of the mom, one of the daughters of the mom that I sit with they work for MET nurse. And they deal with a lot of adults with special needs and stuff. And they were looking into getting me some of their clients just to lighten the load.

Phil (2):

That's awesome.

Andrea:

So they paid to put me through this crisis prevention class. That's awesome.

Phil:

So you're getting some pretty good work, you're getting some certifications, some skills. Yeah. And so it's you and Jackson and Ella. Yes. You guys are, you're still at the Grace House? We are still at the Grace House Ministries, okay.

Andrea:

And we I took it upon myself to approach a a fellow client there. And I asked her to introduce me to her United Way caseworker. Because things just were stagnant, with getting housing and, where we would be or where we would be going from that point. And she introduced us and he has really Done miracles. Awesome. He has worked so many miracles and I did not expect him to be so willing to pick our case up and advocate for us and do what he has already done. We have gotten blessed with a housing voucher through the Moving to Work program.

Phil:

That's awesome.

Andrea:

And I mentioned it to to my boss, one of the daughters with the lady that I sit with. And. She said, I think I can help you. And she, they, they know a guy that has several different rental properties around Columbus. Yeah. And they said I think we've got your house. So whenever you get everything done and you cross all the T's and dot the I's, you let me know and we'll go from there.

Phil:

Wow. So God's working everything out. God

Andrea:

is working tremendously. And I'm here I am worrying about, Christmas for my kids and everything. And. Crazy's Andrea, stop praising the problem. I got you. I got you. And here in less than two weeks time, I've had probably three, three or four places contact me about getting Christmas for my kids. And it's just it's so amazing. Like they,

Phil:

So Christie's worth reaching out to other partners that can work with safe house to say, Hey, can you guys help with Christmas for the kids?

Andrea:

They've had a couple of places reach out to them and say, that's awesome. You guys have

Phil:

wonderful.

Andrea:

Yeah. I'm excited.

Phil:

I'm excited too. And it's

Andrea:

bittersweet. Like I'm not ready to leave, but at the same time I am ready to leave.

Phil:

I get it. I totally get it. Yeah.

Andrea:

We've built so many good relationships, not only with staff, but with. Some of the clients that are there like there's not a single day that goes by that nobody asks nobody doesn't ask about my kids or

Phil:

I love it. That's so awesome it's wonderful that the Grace house is such a loving welcoming That's awesome. And you're saving money. You're doing you're Getting to the place where you're gonna be able to be out on your own and have your own place

Andrea:

and they're so supportive In that's

Phil:

awesome.

Andrea:

They're a couple times I've caught myself getting into that discouraging funk. I don't know if this is gonna work and several of the staff members are like, Andrea, you got this.

Phil:

That's awesome.

Andrea:

You are so patient and you are strong. You've got this. Wow.

Phil:

Praise the Lord. Andrea, I would love to ask you, you have an amazing story. The Lord has brought you through so much, and I'm so happy that you're on stable footing now. You're on the, The rock.

unknown:

Yeah.

Phil:

Jesus is the rock.

unknown:

Absolutely.

Phil:

What lessons would you say, if you had to pull out a few key lessons that you'd like to share what would you say those would be?

Andrea:

First one I think I would say is to probably, no matter what situation you're in or what you're facing, is to realize that you're not going through it alone. And that, that took, it took me a while to realize that myself, but. In all reality, especially if you know the Lord as your savior, you're never going to go through anything alone.

Phil (2):

Amen.

Andrea:

And, the second is to open yourself. Whenever I came to the Grace House, there were so many women there that had similar stories and similar circumstances to mine. But I was afraid to open up and I was afraid to let anybody get close to us. And whenever we did, it was just like we all connected as family, and it took me a while not to be ashamed of my past and to actually own what I had gone through because I made it through it. And, this is my first time ever sharing my testimony with anybody but God. And, my, my old caseworker and several of my friends are like, girl, Go and do it, your story is going to give so many people hope.

Phil:

Yeah, it is. It so is And

Andrea:

I said, I hope I don't get tongue tied

Phil:

You've been doing amazing

Andrea:

And I thought that this was going to be an emotional day An emotional journey for me. But it wasn't that bad and i'm excited, you know in the fact that you know what i've been through and what I have overcame and gotten through with God and with pure strength and determination. It's gonna give somebody else the hope that they can do it too.

Phil:

You're absolutely right. And, just don't

Andrea:

give up on yourself either. That's, I wanted to give up after I lost, my, my two older kids. I wanted to give up so bad. And that's why I turned to, to so many dark things. And, but God didn't leave me. There's still that little twinkle over my shoulder that says, I'm here, but this is not the right place for you. If you just humble yourself though, and just listen to your heart and listen to God, like he'll pull you through anything.

Phil:

Wow. That's true. That's so true. Yeah. Just, it's profound. It's simple, but it's so profound. Yeah. Are you going to church anywhere in town?

Andrea:

I've started going to the Fort.

Phil:

Wonderful. It's a great place. Lots, I got lots of friends that go to the Fort.

Andrea:

Whenever we first got here I was traveling an hour to go to my home church in Grantville. Changed church with Pastor T. J. Boyd. Great church. A lot of people like us. Yeah. Change lives. Changing lives is what we do. Yeah. We just, we like to share the gospel.

Phil:

Amen. Because changing lives is what Jesus does. Absolutely. Yes. Absolutely. And

Andrea:

it's so funny. We have this thing with little Jesus figurines that we've started passing out. And people are like, what's this? And we're always like everybody needs a little Jesus in their life. And so I've picked that up with some of the women here at the Grace House, and that's how I've been able to share the gospel with them.

Phil:

That, wow. That's the first I've ever heard of something like that.

Andrea:

It's great. It's great because the look on people's faces are like.

Phil:

It's a great little door opener, huh? Yeah,

Andrea:

it's fabulous. That's awesome. But whenever we first got here, I was going to Cascade Hills and, Cascade Hills is a great place, but. It's just it's not for me. Yeah, God's there but there's just too many people and So I heard about the fort I'd started actually doing parenting classes at the fort awesome before I actually started going there and It just felt like home, you know in a way.

Phil:

Yeah That's awesome. Praise the Lord. Yeah. for being here today.

Andrea:

Thank you for having me. Thank

Phil:

you for sharing your story Thank you for listening to the Lord and turning to Him and letting Him hold your hand and carry you through and there's so many wonderful lessons to learn. And your story is going to be an amazing blessing and an encouragement to so many.

Andrea:

I pray it is.

Phil:

Yeah. I truly do. Yeah, it is. It just is. So Thank you so much. Do you mind if I close us in a word of prayer? No. Is there anything else you want to add before I do?

Andrea:

No, Just ask that God keep guiding me in the right direction, that I can share some light.

Phil:

Amen. Yeah,

Andrea:

it's up to people that need it

Phil:

Amen. All right, let's pray. Father. I love you. I thank you for Andrea. Thank you for what you've done in her life Thank you that you are so faithful. You're always faithful no matter what Lord, thank you for bringing her to the place where she is Setting her feet on a solid rock helping her to have a good life some children that she can be a mother to and love and guide and pour herself into. Thank you for her heart to share the gospel to share the truth of Jesus with others. Bless her, Lord. Guide her, Lord. Give her wisdom. Give her guidance in the path ahead. Help her to stay strong. Help her to stay close to you, Father. To listen to you and to let you guide her path in all things, I pray, and bless her children. Amen. Guide them in the same way. Bring them to a saving knowledge of Jesus. And bless their lives too, I pray in Jesus name. Amen.

Andrea:

Amen.

Phil Shuler:

We look forward to being with you again next week as we share another testimony about the power and the goodness of God to change lives through Safe House Ministries. if you are someone listening to this podcast that loves to hear these stories of the great things that God is doing in changing people's lives for the better, and if you would like to be a part of that work, please reach out to us You can reach us at 2101 Hamilton Road, Columbus, Georgia, 31,904. You can call us at seven oh six three two two. 3 7, 7 3, or you can email us at info@safehouse-ministries.com.

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