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Turning to the Devil as a Teenager: Mike Singleton's Story

• Phil Shuler • Season 2 • Episode 41

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Mike shares his regret in choosing the wrong friends as a teenager and how that led him down a path of great pain.  There are so many amazing anecdotes and emotional stories with powerful lessons.  As is true in all our lives, God was there working all along the way to bring Mike back from the destruction he had bound himself to.  On a night when God was working in Mike's heart and he was sensitive to listen, he had a friend that brought him to SafeHouse Ministries where God got hold of Mike's heart and turned his feet on a path to victory.

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:

Good morning this morning on the podcast. I have got Mike Singleton with me and Mike was another person that one of my colleagues Recommended I get on the podcast because he's got a great story and He is doing really well now That was not always the case so Mike Thank you for being here, man.

Mike:

It's good to have you.

Phil:

I'm glad you're here and glad you're willing to share your story to be an encouragement to others. Mike, I got a quick question for you. If you had to pick one word that would best describe you, what would that word be?

Mike:

I reckon it'd be outgoing.

Phil:

Alright, outgoing. That's a good word. How do you mean? What is, what about you would you say exhibits being outgoing? Outgoing.

Mike:

I'm a very energetic person. I like to get outdoors. I enjoy hunting, fishing and stuff like that.

Phil:

Yeah. You like being outside.

Mike:

Yes, sir.

Phil:

That's awesome, man. Good. Sitting up in a tree, waiting on a deer.

Mike:

That's right.

Phil:

All right. Good. Did you get anything this season?

Mike:

No, I actually didn't go this season. I've been working too much.

Phil:

Alright, okay. Working's a good thing too. Mike let's jump in. Just tell me, where you grew up and what growing up was like for you.

Mike:

I grew up in North Island on 6th Avenue. Growing up was I guess you could say my parents always took care of me. Never around that drug lifestyle, never around any kind of violence, anything like that. Grew up in a church family, Baptist. Just pretty much well raised growing up.

Phil:

That's good. That's a blessing. It's a blessing a lot of people don't have. Yeah. I

Mike:

was very blessed to have a caring grandma and mother and father which really took care of me. My grandma raised me to be kind and be nice. Yeah.

Phil:

That's good. So your grandma raised you?

Mike:

My grandma and my mom. We lived in my grandma's house.

Phil:

Okay. Alright. So it was you and your grandma and your mom? Yes. Okay. Your dad not in the picture? Yes.

Mike:

Dad's always been in the picture. It's just when my dad and mom split up for a few years and got back together and then split up again. Oh wow. That's cool. But when you have, he's always been in the picture though.

Phil:

Okay. Okay. So just whether in the house with you or maybe just in the picture, but not in the house. Yes, sir. Okay. All right. Tell me that like that as you were growing older what began to steer you in a path that led to trouble?

Mike:

I can say the trouble began around 15 years old. I tried my first beer. Still in school. Played football. I tried my first beer and I tried my first cigarette. And I guess that's, you can say it was a gateway to later on down the road.

Phil:

Yeah, what led you to take that first step? Was it

Mike:

just hanging around friends? Hanging around certain group of guys You know just I hung around a lot of older people when I was younger. So yeah, I guess that's what kind of encouraged it and I just started. Okay.

Phil:

Had your parents ever said don't ever do these kind of things? Oh, of course. And you just were like, eh, I don't care. I'm gonna try it out. Yeah, of course. Yeah. So what began to happen from there?

Mike:

I grew a little older, about 17 or 18. Started smoking marijuana. And then the marijuana led to some other things. Led to meth use. Very heavy meth use from the time I was 18 to let's see about

Phil:

30,

Mike:

31 years old.

Phil:

Wow. That's a really fast progression. At least it seems so 17, 18 so you just jumped in and full speed into the world of drugs. Was that again, just related to the people that you were with and they're encouraging you to try it out or what?

Mike:

Yeah, I can, I say so.

Phil:

Yeah. Were there ever things in your life that tried to pull you back out of that? Were your parents aware that you were in that way and that they like, what was that aspect of life?

Mike:

My mom, she She tried time after time again when I started to drinking. And then I started hanging out with friends even more at parties and stuff. And she just kept trying and nagging at me like, This is not the road you want to go down. And then, she just kept nagging and nagging at me. And I just wouldn't listen. Wish I would have. Yeah.

Phil:

Was she aware from an early point or were you? Oh yes. Doing those like from the first kind of the beginning was she aware that you had started drinking or? She was

Mike:

aware. I'm not gonna say she didn't care. I mean she really did care but I'm not, she didn't, I'm not gonna say try harder.

Phil:

Yeah.

Mike:

I guess she thought because I was at home doing it, it was. She didn't condone it. Not one bit.

Phil:

That's

Mike:

what I'm trying to

Phil:

say. She didn't maybe didn't realize it was as dangerous and serious a thing as it actually was. Yes. Okay. How about your dad? Did he know at the time?

Mike:

Oh yeah.

Phil:

Was he strongly trying to encourage you to stay out of that or was he like, eh,

Mike:

Yeah, he was trying to, yes.

Phil:

Okay. 18 years old, you're into Matthews were you still in high school? Did you finish high school

Mike:

or? I didn't finish high school. I wish I would have. I can say about 11th grade mom came in there and she's are you going to school? And then I was like, no. And then I dropped out of school and that's when the drinking got worse and then marijuana got worse. I say roughly around 1920 I started doing the meth. Okay. And then still at home, I say still at home with mom. And then later on down the road, comes down the road. I venture off of my own finally and ended up staying at the hotel rooms. And

Phil:

how'd you get the money for that? Those things? So like you, you had like early twenties, you left your house. I was started working for'em. I was working

Mike:

for the Patels, they own the famous Bamboo Motel room. That's where I was introduced to the meth, really. So

Phil:

you were working for the people that ran the hotels, or owned the hotels. Yes, sir. And then that, that allowed you to stay in the hotel.

Mike:

That allowed me to stay there, and then, of course, I started selling drugs. And that's what really increased my meth use.

Phil:

Did the, were the hotel managers and everybody, were they aware of all of that? They were.

Mike:

They just, as long as I did my job, they stayed out of my business. Okay. Other than that, yes. When the heavy use of the drugs wow.

Phil:

So there was a whole little drug business inside or the location of the hotel. Oh yeah. There's a lot of drug activity,

Mike:

bad lifestyle, that's where I pretty much met the devil in my

Phil:

eyes. Wow. Yeah. When you say that what makes you say that?

Mike:

Just the lifestyle the feelings, the, the loneliness, the emptiness inside of me, I knew it was there, but at the time I just didn't care. I didn't, I don't know, one was the drugs, the money, the lifestyle. You notice that just that lifestyle was just, fun to me at the time.

Phil:

Yeah.

Mike:

And yeah, it was just like, I was in this world, but I wasn't, wow.

Phil:

Wow. So when the highs wore off. You just were hit with extreme lows, like in your spirit and your mind and your heart just exactly and that I guess that would just drive you to get the roller coaster back up on the high with the drugs and the sex and just everything, the money, all that, but in the

Mike:

end it, that's all in a nutshell, what you just said, it was just, it's every time I woke up, I had to go get it, I had to go get that. I had to, And then when the nightfall came, it was like a big disco in front of him, a room, it's I don't know. It's just the lifestyle that drove me and drove me crazy.

Phil:

Wow. Makes me think of the verse in the Bible that I think it's in James, maybe the play or James or Hebrews, the pleasures of sin are. For a season only, like they're temporary, they're fleeting, like you, you get those highs and those feelings of happiness, but then it's gone so fast and it leaves you with just great depths of emptiness and darkness. And it's interesting the way you described it as actually just meeting the devil like that's. He loves to destroy people's lives like that. Yes, he does. Where were your parents during that time? Were they still trying to keep in touch and trying to pull you out of that? Or were they just, you just Yeah?

Mike:

They were. They were trying to pull me out of it. They kept trying to get me to go to rehabs. And, at this time I had kids as well. Wow,

Phil:

how many kids?

Mike:

I have five now. Okay. At the time I only had one. In your early 20s? In my 23 I had my first child. Okay. And, my mama, of course, got custody of him because of the drug use. So And she'd bring him by time and time to visit and he got to an age where he like, where like, where his daddy, that sadly was still not enough to pull me away. Was his mom in the picture? Yeah, my wife now of 11 years. We're still together. Okay. That's another thing. She's been with me all

Phil:

through the

Mike:

addiction.

Phil:

Wow. Now was she in that world with you? Like of her own? Like in the addictions and the darkness herself?

Mike:

Yes, sir. Okay. Yeah, she's We got together. She never used any drugs until she met me. She did, but she wasn't no meth user. And we got into that lifestyle, man. And it's just like a whirlwind. It took us down through there pretty bad.

Phil:

Wow. Wow. Yeah. So when you guys, obviously, both of you, when you, she got pregnant and you guys had a, what's your son's name? My son's name's Aiden. Aiden, okay. My first child, yes. Was it immediate that your mom or your grandma got custody or was that? No, it was,

Mike:

we kept our drug use hidden from everybody that didn't know. We tried to keep it on the table. The people that did know, didn't force DHR or anything like that into our life. Until a certain point where they thought, we were doing it around them or we were Not fit to take care of them, which in my eyes now that I should have been unfit the whole time But I could say I've never done it around my children, you know I always put them to bed and we'll go outside or we'll go another area, But yeah, they always tried to Pull the kids away from us, but not Legally, yeah,

Phil:

so after Aiden you had a few more kids But I know they were still all in your custody at the time.

Mike:

Aiden My mom and then a few years later. We had another child and Of course she tested positive Baby had it, And he got took and put. The baby tested positive for like drugs in his system? She did at the time when she was going to her doctor,

Phil:

okay, so they immediately took that baby from the beginning. They took him,

Mike:

put him through another family member, which I see every so often now.

Phil:

now who's that one with? The same wife, her name's Brittany. Okay so Aiden was with your mom and grandma. Yes. And then, what's the name of the Second child.

Mike:

The second name is Trendon. Trent,

Phil:

Trendon?

Mike:

Trendon.

Phil:

Okay. Trendon's with somebody other than your mom. She's with my,

Mike:

he's with my cousin,

Phil:

yes. Okay.

Mike:

We continue the drug life,

Phil:

and Brittany you said was your wife's name? Brittany. were you guys both together just living in the hotel room together? That was your life?

Mike:

Yes, sir.

Phil:

Okay.

Mike:

Yeah, we was just staying in hotel rooms, bouncing around here and there, all of them from about 280 down everywhere. And that's how we were just living our life, man, until right about, let's say, it was before October of 2020. She left me. And What brought that about? Was She just got tired of it.

Phil:

Tired of life. She wanted her children back. Okay, so she wanted to have a better life. But you weren't interested in that at the time.

Mike:

Not at the time, until one of my good friends, his name's Danny Bellflower, this is how it all began at Safe House. My wife left me, of course. She left me. Were y'all

Phil:

married then, or were y'all

Mike:

Yeah, we're married.

Phil:

Okay, so you were married at that time? Yeah,

Mike:

we've been married since June 26th of 16. Okay. Yeah, so we've been married, but like I said, getting into that lifestyle. Yeah. And on down the road. I'm trying to get it to the point where.

Phil:

Yeah. Yeah, so your friend Danny. He was the one that encouraged you to maybe try to get out of that and get some help. I encouraged him first, believe it or not.

Mike:

Yeah? Yeah. I encouraged him to go. He was getting where he couldn't function really. He was losing it, yeah. Paranoid, schizophrenic and stuff, and he was just, didn't have nowhere else to go. He was just burning bridges everywhere, and I seen him down. I didn't know if I have my friend anymore, just the things he was doing. Yeah. And I encouraged him. I was like, look, man, there's places you can go to get help. This is me still in my addiction.

Phil:

Yeah.

Mike:

Telling him like, Hey man, you can go get help. Just go get help. Go get your life together. But what he's like, what are you going to do? I said, I guess I'm going to stay here and keep trucking, man. Two months comes around, three months I ain't heard nothing from him, and finally four months comes around, he's pulling up in a brand new car. I was like, where you at? And he's I'm at the safe house. And I said, I'm at the Grace House. I was like, what's the Grace House? And he was like, man, it's where you want to go to get to know God. And he just kept coming back at me. Finally, he's getting ready to graduate and he finally graduate

Phil:

from the Tomorrow's Hope substance abuse treatment program. He's

Mike:

getting ready to graduate and he's, the whole time he's been at this place, he's coming to me showing me these nice things, showing me, what I could have and showing me what I could do, how I could change. And it's getting to me every time. And then, I talked to God, even through my addition, I talked to God. And I can hear him through other people saying, get off the drugs, get off the meth, and this is one night right before Danny came back to get me. I was just sitting outside my hotel room and looking down at this sign, it just said office. And I kept looking at it and I kept looking at it and by the time Danny shows up, it's like morning time. I'm staying inside all night. And Danny shows up and I look at his signs like, man, what do you think that sign says? It's telling me something. I'm high. I'm thinking, crazy things. And I looked down and I said, it says off ice. It says off ice. Get off the ice. Then he said, get in the car, man. You're going with me. Wow. So I jumped in the car. I got no shirt on. I show up at the safe house, pastor Eric comes out, and you gotta have a shirt on, man, like that. And I was like, I don't have one. But we gonna find you one, come on they give me a shirt, and I'll go in there and sit down 30 minutes to an hour. Next thing I'm at the Grace House. Which is the men's shelter at the time. At the time, it's a women's shelter now. Next thing I'm at the Grace House. Wow. And Danny's graduating, and I feel like I'm alone again. He's

Phil:

gone. So he's got his life together. He's gotten clean through the Tomorrow's Hope program. He's gotten a job and gotten stability and he's off doing well. And now you're just getting into the Just now

Mike:

getting there and then he walks me to the gate and says, I can't go in man, I gotta go. He's but I'll be around, I'll be here. And I watched him leave and he goes over to this little warehouse right across the street. I was like, I'm thinking like, where is he going? Later on he comes back, about two weeks later, he brings me a phone, he's gonna bought me a phone, he's gonna bought me clothes, he's got me where to a place where I feel free again. I'm two weeks clean, I'm like, wow, man. Still got urges to leave, and he keeps coming back for me, and he came back for me again, and again. I'm sitting here, and I'm, Talking to God one night. I'm like, I'm just like, thank you. Thank you, Lord, thank you for this place. And then my life began at the safe house again. Wow.

Phil:

Wow. Man, that is amazing. Yeah. So you, they got you plugged into the Tomorrow's Hope program as well. Yes. So you were getting that substance abuse treatment therapy and just going through the process of getting some job training and life training and getting back on your feet. Yes.

Mike:

And then, I guess about a month later, I found out what the warehouse was. He was over there working. Yeah. He got me a job over there cutting grass with him. And I started working with him. At the time, I couldn't work because tomorrow's hope didn't want you

Phil:

working. You have to have a certain amount of time. A certain amount of time. And therapy. And to get that stability before you're allowed to go work.

Mike:

Yes, and that led to me I went to class, I kept going to class for about another month or two, and I was waiting for them to get released from the work, and then Something came up, just putting back 30 days, and Me being so stubborn, I said can I just drop out tomorrow so I can stay at Grace House? And work, and stay clean, and Danny's No, do not do that. You're gonna graduate tomorrow, so man, just like I did, maybe in stubborn, I did it anyway. And ended up dropping out of the Tomorrow's Hope program, staying at Grace House, working, going to meetings, going to meetings, any meetings, going to church every Sunday to Fort, and kept going and kept going to about my seventh month of being there at Grace House. I just decided to go home. I felt like I had God with me, and I felt like Danny brought me to, back to the Lord's feet. Yeah. And I was

Phil:

When you say go home where was home?

Mike:

My mom finally got a place out there on Highway 80, and she needed help, and I figured I could be back with my kids. My wife was still at her grandma's, cause she's where she went to go get clean. Yeah. I just figured I can go home and I had enough of the Lord with me and I met enough and got to know him, reading my Bible, going to the fort, so I went home, and Danny supported it. He supported it. He was there every day. He'd come get me for work, I still work with him every day leading up to, It's tragic. His death, led up to him dying. Oh, wow. He eventually, he traveled back out. And it really broke my heart. He, so he did what now? He traveled back out. He His mom, his mama got sick. Yeah. And if Danny, his mom, they were inseparable. Yeah. And I just don't think he couldn't take it.

Phil:

So when his mom got sick,

Mike:

she was in, yeah, he was in, she was in the hospital and I just don't think he could took, his dad. I don't know. I'm not going to say that, but that's what I think it was. And he just, he turned back to the drugs.

Phil:

Was that just when his mom was sick or did she pass away and that's what turned? Yeah, he passed, she passed away. And I

Mike:

guess he, he went back into the drugs just because he couldn't handle it. Yes. And that's, I just look at it like, that man saved my life. Safe House saved my life, and for him to do that, I owe my sobriety to him. Wow. And that's one of the reasons it's one of the reasons I stay clean today, and I thank Danny Belfly for it, and I thank Safe House Ministries, they

Phil:

saved my life. So you were out living with your mom and that's when Danny's mom got sick and then That ended up she passed and he took his own life.

Mike:

He didn't take his life. Yeah, it's the drugs Overdosed maybe yes, he overdosed I Was working one day. It's actually I found another job This is later on just a couple months after I found another job and he was still working you know, I'm still seeing him calling him whatever and I was working with this guy, Peyton, and got a phone call saying that, Danny had overdosed.

Phil:

Oh. And it Did you know did you know Danny had gone back to that and you were trying to get him? I didn't know. You didn't know? I didn't know.

Mike:

I sensed it a little bit, I could tell by some of his actions just the way he was. I was He's carrying himself. It seemed different.

Phil:

Yeah

Mike:

and that night of, that day of, it happened, the day, it was that night when it happened, but the day I seen him, he was fine, I was taking him to my phone bill money, and he was still, still on his contract I was taking him to the phone bill money I owed him, and, he shook hands, gave me a hug, I was like, I love you brother, he was like, I was like, you okay? He was like, nah, but I will be, I said, all right, man, you would call me later at night. He called me and he was like he said, my office won't let you know. Thank you for following my footsteps. And I'm so glad to help you get out of that addiction like you did me. There's one. Let you know. I love you, Mike. I love you too, Danny. Call me tomorrow. He said, All right. And by that time I was over by his apartment and I just felt something weird. I wanted to go over there but something just led me into another direction and I got the phone call the next morning. So yeah, it me for a while, I'm still not over it. What, how long ago was that? Man, it was back in it was about four years

Phil:

ago,

Mike:

it had

Phil:

to be about four years ago. Were you Were you stable and staying clean, or did that kind of rock your boat?

Mike:

No, it really didn't man, cause like I said it, everyday I fight it. And you know what they say, once an addict always an addict, I do believe in that, cause it's true to me. I still have little, tiny little urges, I still have dreams about it, and it's The one thing that keeps me going is God and another thing that keeps me going is my memories with Danny. You know that. Yeah. He got me. He got me clean. Wow. Like he restored my life. Which of course, God first, but

Phil:

yeah

Mike:

he was the vessel

Phil:

Yeah. Tell me about that journey of you of just building the clean time so you're with your mom, Danny passed, and you're just, you're still committed to stay on that path.

Mike:

I'm still going to meetings. Just to continue to stay on the path was just, like I said, the memories with Danny. Still working, still going, like I said, still going to A& M meetings. Still talking to my sponsor at the time, which he's passed away too. I'm still talking to Bobby Brown on if you ever heard of him was still going to church a little while after Danny had passed. But then I fell apart from that cause that's where, I don't know, I'm going to say it was an excuse that, going to church because it's not an excuse, but I just seem fit not to go because he's not there, yeah But still watching it online still like I said still working still going to classes and staying strong.

Phil:

Yeah And now at what point did you get back together with Brittany?

Mike:

She came back I'd say about three or four months after I left the Grace House.

Phil:

Okay. To you, to your mom's house with you? Yeah, to my mom's house. Okay. And did you get in, you guys had all the kids or some of the kids at that point? We got

Mike:

two of them. Okay. We got my youngest, his name's Taylan and he's four. And then we got Aiden, which is 11. Okay. And we also got a little girl. She's four too. She's five. Her name's Jayden. Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. And she's got a step. She's got a son, which is my stepson. His name is Michael.

Phil:

Okay. She got him, during the time she had left you. No, she had him before I got with her. Okay. He's he's 13. Oh, wow. Okay. All right. So you guys are come back together as a family and she's clean at that point and she's doing well. Yeah. And you guys just kept building on that success and up to where you are now? Yes, sir. Okay. So you got three of the kids. Now do you guys go to meetings together or do you guys separately go to your own meetings home groups and

Mike:

no she don't Believe it or not. She didn't use none of this networking. She didn't go to rehab like I did she didn't get treatment. She just quit co turkey. Wow, and I commend her for it like I don't see how she did it I really don't Wow I guess she just had a drive, she got tired of it and said you go clean or I'm not coming back. That's how it was wow. And it took me a while, to realize she wasn't coming back and it would never be me and her again unless I left my demons and my drugs alone, so that's what I did.

Phil:

Wow. Man, praise the Lord for the victory he's given. Just praise the Lord for Danny and for Safe House and tomorrow's hope and just wow.

Mike:

Yeah, I don't know where I would be today without Safe House Ministries. they opened their doors to me and I knew God again. As soon as I went there, it led me to the fourth church and I knew God again and I haven't let that go. Amen. He never let me go, I walked away from him, but he never left my side. Yeah. It's that's why I use this saying that God created everybody equal, but he created a blind man, but he created that blind man so he has to walk by his side so that blind man sees better than us. That's been, I heard that from somebody before and I just touched my heart, so that blind man can see. He can't see, but he can see,

Phil:

yeah. Yeah.

Mike:

That's where I look at it, wow. But yeah, Safe House Ministries really saved my life.

There are so many amazing things about Mike's story. The way that the Lord spoke to him through that billboard, the sign which said office, and the Lord somehow got the message into Mike's mind that he was telling him to get off the ice. I love the fact that he had a friend, Danny, that he encouraged Danny to get out of the craziness and the drug addictions, and then Danny started doing well and turned around and got His friend Mike out so many lessons to learn so many things to ponder about the journey that Mike had the danger of teenagers who start out with drinking and smoking and then they hang around the wrong people and Start going down a wrong path and parents who try to get the teenagers out but maybe sometimes just don't think that It's that big a deal that they'll be okay that they'll figure it out on their own I don't know it's as a parent It is difficult. It's so difficult to know how far to go and how much to push And just what to do sometimes to protect your kids to correct your kids Get them away from danger I don't know it's tough but I tell you what it is Something that is worth really thinking about. we can't change the past, but we can learn. We can learn from the past in our own lives, and we can learn from the stories in the past in other people's lives. And we can try to gain wisdom to apply for the future. So, I hope you've enjoyed this podcast. Next week, Mike's gonna be back again, and he's gonna share with us that Even after the victory, life sometimes is still challenging and things are difficult and you have to keep pushing forward, constantly being aware of the enemy and the danger that he poses. Mike's going to also pull out some really good key lessons. And share those with us next week. So I hope you'll come back, I'm excited, I've enjoyed talking with Mike and I hope you have a great week and I look forward to having you back and just being with Mike again next week. God bless you.

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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