Victory over Cancer, Victory over Addiction, and Embracing the Power of Unconditional Love...Mike Beach's Story (Part 2)

I just love Mike's spirit of humility, joy, and life!  In this conclusion episode of Mike's story, Mike shares how he finally grabbed hold of the Lord's hand and allowed him to pull him up out of the darkness for good.  Mike offers some truly profound wisdom about the power of unconditional love and how to help others without enabling them.  Mike's transformational story is a powerful testament to a God who truly loves us more than we could ever understand!

Transcript

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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.

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I went down that rabbit hole again, back smoking weed again. I was, wow. And I was mad at myself for getting back, being, getting back to where I was. And it was just a rabbit hole I couldn't pull myself out of. And I was on probation. And I ended up popping dirty on a urine screen for marijuana. And they put me in a DRC program that was a pop dirty in August, beginning of August of last year. And then then you still living on your own, just going through the DCI was my own, but my my probation officer said, you couldn't work. You couldn't work. So I didn't know what to do. Then I was gonna be homeless because of my addiction. Yeah. My addiction was actually gonna make me homeless because I have nobody, all I had was myself. So I knew only one thing to do is just try to reach out to the Grace House, which I didn't know was the Freedom House. Yeah. It had changed at that point, by that point. Yes, sir. And but towards my end of time at Grace House, Jamie Lee had come in over there and her, she would come into my restaurant. Sometimes I would, my case manager Matt would come in, so they all knew me. Yeah. Downtown, the restaurant, we still kept connections that way. God bless'em. So when I called 2 1 1 to get put on the waiting list, they told me it was gonna be about two and a half months, three months before I could get in there. And. I was like, man, this is reality now. This is, I'm gonna be on the street. Yeah. So I prayed and prayed, and I got a phone call a couple days later. It was like two days later, and it was it was a female voice. And she said Mike, I said, yes ma'am. And she was she goes, how you doing? By that time, I knew it was Jamie. I said it was no, even for me, even lie to her, I'm not doing very well. She goes, are you okay? I said, no. And I remember her saying, she goes, just come home. Wow. Yeah. She said, just come home. And I just sat there and cried. I think she might even cried and Oh wow. She told me what I had to do to get to come, to get in there. And I think I was there probably two days later, three days later. Wow. So just welcomed with love and acceptance to the Freedom House is, yeah. Not even saying what, how Through Freedom House took me in and saved my life. Wow. There's no other way to put it. No other way to put it. And that ain't it. Lightly, man. I got there I saw what, how the kitchen was being run there. I saw how I could help out there. I wouldn't talk to Jamie. Jamie goes, the kitchen's yours. cause she knows I like to stay busy. I can't just I'm a busy body. Yeah. And me being busy was therapy to me. Yeah. And, but I wasn't just doing the kitchen. I was helping out doing other things around there. Going to DRC every day, not missing no classes doing what I had to do, going to my meetings. And then eventually I mean I graduated DRC in four and a half months. Wow. Four and a half, five months. And which is unheard of, but I did it. It's possible guys. That's awesome. Yep. So the DRC is like the outpatient whereas our set was like, you're, there you go. You're in prison program. That's right. DRC was like, you gotta every day be somewhere to live on your own. But you can come here to the program. That's right. You can't work. But the Freedom House gave me that shelter I needed. Yeah. They gave me that protective shield that I needed to get through this. And it wasn't just a freedom house, it was God. Yeah. It was God who put me in that situation. And and eventually I in February, I got called into the office, Mike Crews office, and Jamie Lee was in there. I'm like, oh Lord. But they said, I had asked them before about me working there. Yeah.'cause I loved it. I loved helping the other guys out. I loved the accountability that I was being held to. I loved how I was given advice, not just getting it. Really took to that. And so they asked me if I wanted to be, if I wanted to work there, asked me if I would, they said it was that time, wow. I did it with open arms, love it. I love it. I really do. It's so beautiful. I just to think about where you were at and the hopelessness and the man despair and beyond despair. I was in my sickness, deep in my sickness, and I didn't care about anybody. I didn't even care about myself. Wow. Yeah. That the way you just shared that story, it just makes me think about Jesus and the way he absolutely no matter what we do, no matter how big the mess is that we create by our own. Just bad choices. He just loves us and he just puts his arms around us and he just absolutely, he's always there. Always there, absolutely no matter what. And my mom, she's very religious. My whole time. You grow growing up, she's very religious. She's always had that instilled in us but I shunned that even though, I can think back in my addiction, looking at the Bible, just pick it up. Just pick the Bible up and read it. But you find a reason not to. Yeah. Is he, I always would find a reason not to. And I'm guessing that changed and that Absolutely. I'm, that's maybe some, when you got back to the Freedom House, that your heart was open to the Lord again. Absolutely. My heart's always been open to the Lord. It's just, I didn't know how to practice it, if that makes sense. Yeah, it does make sense. But the Freedom House, they gave me that avenue to take that path. To take to where I was able to, yeah. I've always was able to, but they took the they took the chains off of me, so to speak, and that gave me the avenue to pick up my Bible every day. Get on your knees, pray every morning, read your Bible every morning. But don't only read about it, talk about it, practice it. And how you go about your life, yeah. Love other people as Jesus loves you. Don't judge just practicing it and putting it into practice and eventually it just be, it becomes a part of your nature without even thinking about it. Yeah. And wow. And I'm just so thankful for them opening up that door for me to even get in because it could have took me months to get in there. I don't know how my name even came across her desk, but it did. Thank the Lord. The Lord did it. It's only, I think she even said it. This is only the Lord. Wow. It is, this is only the Lord, God does so many things that are so amazing. I just, and I think if we're honest with ourselves, I could look back at my life and see the hand of the Lord. And as I hear you tell your story I can see the hand of the Lord and he's always there. And it just takes us a while sometimes to recognize that it, he's has definitely me gone through what I've gone through. He has always been present in my life, or I wouldn't be here today. He ultimately had the path for me to walk down. He had already scripted for me. Was it was never easy, me taking advantage of my family financially. Playing on their emotions. Me manipulate my friends, the people who were most important to me. I heard a lot of people, and the only way that I could make me feel better about it today,'cause I don't accept how I lived in was just that he had the ultimate plan, and and just to be at where I'm at today with it all. It's a full circle and and I know it's the Lord, but my ulti, I use my mother's motivation so much because she would be so proud of me today. Working for a ministry. What, who, who would even think that? My friends, you're not working for a ministry. I'm definitely working for a ministry now. I'm definitely they'd be too shocked. What? No way. There's no way Mike real, you. Yes. Yeah. Me. It can happen to anybody. If it can happen to me, it can happen to anybody. I'm more, I'm humble today. I'm more loving today. I'm more caring today. I don't think of myself as I should. Maybe I should think of myself more, but I don't hardly at all anymore. I sacrifice what I want now for other people. I love helping people now. I love helping the homeless guys that come in, giving them life, giving them, show them love because they don't have that love when they come in. They don't have family when they come in. The situations that they're in when they come there or dire. So letting them know, sitting down with them and talking to them, Hey, you could talk to me. Let's talk, man. How you doing today? Now are they open to it? At first, no. But just being there for them every day, feeding them, clothing, them showing them love unconditional no matter where they at, what they've done or how they are, just being accepted again. It gets, you can see the light go off in their head. Does everybody accept it? No, but a three quarters of'em do, and then we have the treatment side. The guys that are going to treatment that come in there hey, I've been there, I've been there, man. I understand. And and talking to those guys and letting them know that somebody that's been down their path, somebody that's gone through treatment it's it gives them hope. It gives them hope. It gives me hope. I love the accountability that I'm held to. And when you make these relationships with these guys they look up to you. They start coming to you for advice. And that's what I need. I need that for, I need that in my life. Because even though I've been clean since August 21st, 19, 2024 I still have to be held accountable because this is just the beginning of my sobriety. And I understand that now or know where before a couple months not drinking, oh, I'm good now I can go around it, or I can go around my friends who are drinking and I'll be fine. But now I know the steps that need to be taken in order for me to be sober. And I take my sobriety very serious now. I won't put nothing in front of my sobriety, I wouldn't even put my kids in front of my sobriety right now.'cause that's how important it's to me. And I think my kids would appreciate that, yeah. Have to put your sobriety first because that's all. I wouldn't be where I'm at today if I wasn't sober. Yeah. That's you beautifully, I think, have described an element of wisdom. and it's not necessarily just related to addiction, but in so many ways in our lives, we. We put chains around ourselves and we behave in certain ways and we just, it's we enter into just darkness and then we think arrogantly. We're okay. We're, but Absolutely. But we're not, and it's definitely not, wisdom is accepting that and recognizing that and just, I'm enjoying just hearing you share and just thinking about what you're saying and the truth that are so evident in it. In my addiction, I would not be sitting here with you talking about this, I wouldn't be able to even address it, yeah. But it's just the lord, I give him all the praise for the things that are happening in my life right now. It would not be, it wouldn't be because it is him. Yeah. He will only allow things that happen in your life that he knows that you can handle. He is the only one that really can bring about total transformation. And that's what it is, it is a total transformation. Just, there are many people who try to just change their lives on their own. Yeah. But none of us can achieve what we need in the form of a total transformation without God. He's done so much for me, the Lord that I'm hungry. I'm starving for him, because. He deserves all the praise, and I'm just so hungry for what he can provide and the love that he pro provides. The security that he provides. The Yeah. The unconditional love that he just, his mean, he gave his son, his only son to us. Yeah. There's nothing more powerful than that. I don't know if I could do that. I'm be honest. I don't know if I could sacrifice my son for that. I don't, who could do that but him? Yeah. It's crazy.'cause you think he did that when we essentially hated him. We didn't care nothing for him. No. We just Nope. Do whatever we want. We don't care about him. And he loved us that much to give Jesus his son to die for us. Yep. So that we could be transformed. Yep. So that, yeah. So that we could be completely and utterly forgiven of everything. Think about that. I think about that so much. That's, it's amazing to think about. How could you not get emotional thinking, thinking about that? Yeah. And Yeah. And I hope that as people listen to your story and to the stories that are on every weekend, it's not that good of a story. It's an amazing story. I it is a, it is an example of. A transformation of life that can only come from God. Thank you. It's, and it's beautiful. Yeah. He deserves that. He deserves all the praise for that. And there's, there is hope no matter how bad things are, no matter how dark things are and it's, it hits hard when you speak the truth that so many people that come into the Freedom House are in this similar place where you were, where they literally have no one, like everybody has written them off. That's right. They're the way that they have behaved, the way that they have manipulated, the way that they have hurt and burned so many bridges and just their family's done with them. That's right. And they have nothing. That's right. And to come into a place where people love them Absolutely. And where they can see the love of Jesus so visibly and clearly demonstrated. It it's pretty powerful. The transformation that you see, that, that goes to them. It takes a sometimes it takes a week, sometimes it's a day, sometimes it's a month, because they're, they don't have trust, yeah. But once they see what's going on around them and that we're helping them do so many things to get on their feet, I, and I tell them, don't use your Freedom House as a stepping stone. Use it as a trampoline to to jump into where you need to be. Launch it, yeah. Use this place as a launching pad to be where you need to be at because we believe in you. Start leaving yourself. That's really good, man. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. You might could be a life coach too, man. It's true though when you, you break it down to'em in that aspect, don't use this as a place just to sit here, to get a job and just to do, just to get through these next few months with a roof over your head. Use it as a launching pad to set yourself up so that when you leave here, you have a place to live. Yeah. You have. Yeah. You have a job a not just a job, but a career, yeah. Take a, take advantage of what's there. But you have to swallow your pride to do that though, that's hard. I know. Hey, I knew it. It is hard. It was hard for me,'cause a lot of us come in there with pride to where we don't wanna swallow that, that gets in the way and it gets in the way of a lot of guys now, we have guys that come two, two or three times before they, or before they acknowledge that, but that's what we do. We love unconditionally. I'm so thankful for the Freedom House. I'm so thankful for the Safe House Ministries. And just in general because they have been a big part of my life. Even when I was out. Even after the Grace House, they were a part of my life without me even knowing it. And that's how powerful this Safe House Ministries are. Wow. It's a it's a beautiful ministry to be a part of, and I'm thankful to be an honor, to be employed by them. It gives me so much pride and almost, I start tear up and think about it, how if, it's just, it is powerful, to think about where I was. And I didn't really think about it until we're sitting her talking about everything that I've done, everything that I've went through in life. The people that I've hurt, the the bridges that I've burned to be at where I'm at today. To be a part of a ministry. It's, I love it. I would never, ever take it for granted. Ever take it for granted. Awesome. Awesome. And I'm assuming that you're totally free and clear of the cancer and Yes. I've been in remission since 2017. Awesome. Yeah. I've been in remission since 2017. Another blessing I get, I go every three months still. I still have to, do what I have to do as far as my health is concerned, but yeah. Awesome. Yeah. And you're, I'm so excited that I it just brings me great joy just to be here with you and to hear what the Lord has done in your life and just where you were. Now where you are and where I'm going and where you're going. Absolutely. Yeah. So if you think back over the time of your experience in your life and all that you've gone through, what would you say would be some of the key lessons that the Lord has taught you that you feel like could be a help to others? To be accepting to listen to the people that love you to swallow your pride. Because when we're in, when we, at some point in our addiction, we know we're addicted. We know that we can't control it. And when you have family members or friends who you trust and who love you unconditionally tell you that you're dying because of your addiction, listen, take that advice. Do something about it. Swallow your pride, and let go.'cause at that point, you have no more control of your life. You have to let somebody else take control of it for you for a little bit, the right person, the right people, control it to get you to where you need to be at. Accept the Lord into your life because he's the one, you can't do it without him. There's no way you can do it without him. I couldn't do it without him that's good. That's a lot of good advice. And I think of, the way you began just with the advice of accepting listening to the people that love you. And we probably, when we get on a path of doing things we shouldn't be doing, messing things up, hurting ourselves so often we're blind to it. Absolutely. It's just, it's crazy. I was reading this morning in Matthew 12, the life of Jesus and the miracles that he did, and the way that the multitudes, I came across a version. The people said, how can this not be the son of David? How can this not be the mess? Like these miracles are impossible. Like this is God. But yet the Pharisees saw all of those things, but they were blind to the truth. Yeah. So blind to it and made me think, what could there be in my life that God is trying to teach me that I'm just utterly blind to it. It's so clear, maybe to everybody else, but I'm just blind to it. And I've had family and friends try to help me my entire life. You're outta control. You know what is going on, man. And you have to accept it. You have to understand that the people that love you the most really have your best interests. Yeah. But when you're in that addiction, you know who's gonna, you can't you don't want, you don't wanna let go of that, yeah. Sad. It's so sad to say, but it's the truth. I never had respect for addiction until I got sober this last time. I never had respect for addiction. It's such a, it's such a stronghold that the devil uses to just keep people bound in the lies, the manipulation lies, the, just how you treat folks. How you don't care. How you don't even care how they even think about you. Where today for me, I care about how people think about me. I care about the folks who I've hurt in the past and how they still won't have nothing to do with me. That hurts. That hurts. Yeah. Today where, when I was in my addiction, I could care less, or if I did care, I would just drink, get high es, escape it. Just try to ignore it. Yeah. To get away with it, just to get by. Until the, until that feeling went away, and I'm just thankful for the people I have in my life. Yeah. Now the Freedom House, my, my girlfriend just the people who love me for who I am today, knowing how I was in my past. I'm just thankful. Yeah. That's awesome. And I would never take that, this for granted. Where I'm at today. I just won't, it, it means that much to me. Yeah. Is there any advice that you might give to someone who is not in addiction themselves, but that maybe they're a family member, maybe they're a friend, they're someone who loves a person that is in addiction. What advice would you give to them maybe on just what they can do to have the greatest probability of being able to help that person that they love? That's a good question. Putting myself in my family's member shoes, my father and my mother in particular you can't you're not gonna be able to change anybody until they wanna change for one but show them unconditional love without enabling them. Because the enabling part was my ultimate downfall. I knew that my parents were gonna take care of me. I knew if I didn't, if I got fired from my job for showing up drunk, I knew my mom was gonna pay my rent. So I wouldn't enable, but I would love. I wouldn't cut nobody off, stay present. Don't disappear on them. Yeah. Just show'em love and just be present. If you're not in addiction, then you can't really put yourself in their shoes because you don't know what addiction's about. You can't get somebody help if they don't want help. You can't force somebody to go to rehab if they don't want to go to rehab, because if you put somebody in rehab that doesn't want to be in rehab, they're just gonna manipulate this process to get what they need to get until they get back to their addiction. I wouldn't say so. So my advice ultimately would be, is don't force nothing, show unconditional love and be present without enabling their addiction. That's good advice. That's good. Thank you for that. That's helpful. And I think that would be helpful for so many people because I think the reality is that. All of us could probably think of someone that's in our life that is dealing with some type of addiction. Absolutely. Absolutely. One way or another, whether it be a family member or somebody, one of your friend's, kids, your friend's parents. There's somebody that is an addiction, not necessarily drugs, but there's an addiction somewhere along the line. Yeah. And that they're having issues with that, yeah. Because with my family, when they were trying to help me when I was in my addiction they were trying to do so much for me to get me outta my addiction, that it ultimately took years off their life. I guarantee it. Did. And I wish I could tell my mother and my father that I appreciated that, because it was done outta love. But I wish I could just tell them not to spend so much energy trying to get me sober. Because I didn't get sober until I wanted to be sober. I had to go through some things to to respect the addiction. And you're not gonna hit rock bottom without letting go. They have to let the, the family members have to let you go so you can hit rock bottom. And I tell guys now the Freedom House, the Lord's gonna let you hit rock bottom to let you know he's the rock at the bottom. That's good, man. And it mean because you're not gonna realize that. And he's the rock that will never move. That's right. That you can actually stand on to rebuild. Absolutely. And I tell guys that all the time, man, you, I think you are a life coach, man. Whatever, man. But I do, I tell the guys that. And and he'll let you hit rock bottom more than once. If you choose to forget that he's the rock at the bottom.'cause he and Matt, he did in his devotion yesterday he was saying that he, the Lord wants you to part of his life. He wants to be a part of your life. Or was it chap, it was chaplain that did this that did devotion. If it takes you to go to jail, for you to study him, to be a part of him to have him in your life, if that's the only time that you're going to have him in your life, then you're gonna go to jail. Keep putting, going to jail. You're gonna keep going. If you have him in your life every day, give'em some time every day. Then he will open things up for you to where you won't have to go through that pain and suffering, because that's what he's on. He's gonna, he's gonna put you through that if you don't,'cause he wants you to know that he is there for you. And if you don't acknowledge that, then he's gonna put things in your life to where you're gonna have to do that. And unfortunately in addiction, you don't really put the Lord in your life until you're in jail. I'm just gonna be honest. I was that way for a long time. I was that way, until recently, I didn't really have the Lord, even though I love Jesus and I know what, the Lord had done for us. I didn't really have him in my everyday life until I was at my rock bottom. And going to jail sometimes is not your rock bottom. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. It's so powerful. It just, it reminds me again of the story. I think it's Luke Chapter 15. And what we would call the prodigal son. The father that loves him unconditionally, but the son's I don't care. I want my money. I wanna get outta here. And he goes off just lives like a fool and a crazy person. And then he comes to the place where he has nothing. He is literally homeless. He has no money, known friends, no nothing. And he's, he finds himself as a Jew eating out of. A trough where pigs eat. And I love the way the Bible describes that he came to himself. It's what am I doing? What am I doing? Yeah. And so he goes back and he says, I'm just gonna be a servant to my father.'cause he knows his father will accept him back. That's right. But he's humbled just like how you, we started out and you said the word humbled. And he goes before the father even hears him, he sees him and he runs and he hugs him and he embraces him. And he throws a huge dinner feast and puts the robe and the ring. Yes. And it's like the love was never gone. Like the love was always there. It was always there. It just, the sun just had to receive it. You have to receive it. You have to receive it. You have to accept it, and and that's the bottom line. And you have to practice it. You just can't, you just can't go to church on Sundays. I feel this, you can't go to church on Sundays and think that you know that he's gonna be throwing miracles for you. You just can't go to Bible study on Wednesdays and think that he's gonna do miracles for you. You have to have him a part of your everyday life in order to stay true to yourself and understanding his unconditional love. Yeah. Yeah. It's that's so true. It's so many people I think just want to make God a part of their life. Rather than give their whole life That's right to God. That's right. And I was that way. I was that way for a long time. I'm, now the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning is I get on my knees thanking him, and then I have my Bible study, with myself. I have me, I have a bible. It's it's like a recovery bible. So you scripture, then you read your, then you read how recovery will fit into that scripture. You have to find ways to make it fun for yourself, and that's, I'm having fun with it, right now. Yeah. I'm just so hungry for him, love how he's working in my life. I love to see how he's working in other people's lives in the miracles that he works on an everyday basis. Just by working inside the Freedom House, the, miracles every day, every day you see the miracles in there. And, that's awesome. And the acceptance of how people will come in there, stubborn, and then by the time they leave there, where they're at, it's an amazing transformation to watch. It really is. I, yeah, it is. You're so right. Wow. Any last words or thoughts that you wanna share with anybody who might be listening? I hope that, that somebody I hope that my story will touch somebody. Just one person would be enough, but I hope that, many folks will will take my story, take heed to it, and understanding that some people are, that it's okay not to be okay. It's okay not to be okay. And realizing that you can talk to somebody, don't hold nothing in. And especially people in addiction, we're addicts for a reason. Something traumatic has happened in our lives to where we've turned to drugs and alcohol. So it's okay. That's okay. Just talk to somebody about it. Find somebody that you have confident in that, that you can trust no matter who it is. It doesn't have to be a therapist, a paid therapist you lay in a bid with. It could be anybody. Talk about it. Don't hold it into where it gets to a point to where you can't come back from it. Know that there's people that love you. That there's there's folks who understand you. That there's people who have walked in your same shoes no matter how bad it may seem. That it's okay. It's okay. That's good. That's good. Thank you. Thank you for being here, Mike. Thank you for sharing your story. Thank you for having me. It's been an honor. Yeah, it's been really good. And your story, I know has already touched one me. Thank you. And yeah so now there's only more than one to go from that. So praise the Lord. Thank you. Praise him. Yep. You mind if I close this in a word of prayer? Absolutely, please. Father, thank you for your grace. Thank you for the miracle of transformation and bringing so much life into Mike's life. Thank you, father. Thank you for blessing him with the kids he has and the grandkids he has. I just pray that you would guide his path. Thank you for what he's doing and how he's helping so many others at Freedom House, how he's being an encouragement, how he's an example of the unconditional love that Jesus shows all of us. Bless him. Give him wisdom, Lord. And I know you, your word is clear that to those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, they will be filled. So fill Mike and bless Mike and guide Mike and do great things with him and through him in this world, I pray, in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Phil. Amen. Listening to Mike share his story was such a powerful impact to my heart. It's just amazing to, to hear, but also to see just on the face of people like Mike that have gone through such hardship and to see and hear the transformation that God has done and just the beautiful redemption that he's given them. I love it. I just love it so much and I hope you enjoy listening to these podcasts and I wanna encourage you. I'd like to invite you to subscribe to our weekly newsletter and where we share and give updates about what's going on with Safe House Ministries. We share a little bit about the stories of transformation that you hear on the podcasts, and we also give prayer requests that many of the clients that we just show love to every week, the things that they're going through, the things that they're asking, prayer about, we share those and encourage others to pray for them, to pray for our ministry. So if you want to get our weekly newsletter, just reach out to us. You can reach out to us at our email, which is info@safehouseministries.com, or you can just send an email straight to me. My email is phil@safehouseministries.com and when you reach out to us, just let us know that you wanna sign up for the weekly newsletter, and give us your email and we will be glad to add you to that list and keep you in the loop and invite you to be a partner with us and pray for the ministry, pray for the lives of the people that are going through such hardship, and that the Lord will just do and amazing work in their lives.

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