
Renew. Restore. Rejoice. A SafeHouse Ministries Podcast
Powerful and dramatic stories and discussions of incredible life transformations through the work SafeHouse Ministries does to love and serve people impacted by Homelessness, Addiction, and Incarceration.
Episodes
100 episodes
Federal Prison and the Fanatical Decision To Make a Better Life - Part 2 of Matt and Toni's Story
Part 2 of Matt's story dives deeper into the many years he spent in County Jail and Federal Prison. So much to learn and enjoyable to listen to! Please share the podcast with others and help us spread the word of hope!
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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26:02

Red Phosphorous Meth and Getting Trapped in the Devil's Playground - Toni and Matt Hand Part 1
Matt and Toni are happily married and doing well now, but before they ever met, each of them as individuals became trapped in the devil's playground where their lives nearly ended before they ever even met. This first episode begins with ...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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31:01

Ditching the Devil and Being Delivered by God Forever - Shelley Culpepper's Story Part 3
Shelley's story comes to a beautiful conclusion and is a powerful illustration of the grace of God and the power of God to work miracles! Shelley shares some powerful lessons and godly wisdom from the crazy journey she has had in life, fi...
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Season 2
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Episode 59
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26:34

Surviving a High Speed Police Chase and Surrendering to the Chastening Hand of the Lord -- Shelley Culpepper's Story Part 2
A High-Speed Police Chase through two states, navigating the heartache of a daughter that followed in her bad footsteps, and surrendering to the chastening hand of God so that He could remake her into something amazing for his glory and his pur...
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Season 2
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Episode 58
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26:08

Pregnant and Addicted to Meth at 17, Hired as a Corrections Officer in the County Jail at 18 -- Shelley Culpepper's Story Part 1
Shelley's life got off track as a young teenager when she began seeking the approval of others and hanging out with the wrong crowd. By the age of 17 she was pregnant and addicted to methamphetamine. Somehow, by the age of 18 she ha...
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Season 2
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Episode 57
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31:44

No Judgment, No Condemnation, Just Love and Help in Jesus' Name to Get to a Better Place - Adam Johnson's Story (Part 3)
In this final episode, Adam shares how the love of Jesus shown through SafeHouse Ministries, and the encounter with Jesus he had through his own personal surrender changed the trajectory of his life forever. Adam shares great truth about ...
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Season 2
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Episode 56
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26:16

Homeless and Letting Life Slip Away - Adam Johnson's Story (Part 2)
In this episode Adam continues his story and shares a time in his life when he became increasingly desperate and hopeless. He shares about a time when he was homeless for several years and describes how the enemy sneaks up on you in an at...
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Season 2
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Episode 55
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26:07

Hitting the Heroin and Hiding From Hitmen - Adam Johnson's Story (Part 1)
Adam is the son of former Muscogee County Sherriff Ralph Johnson. Adam's family was hit with much hardship throughout his childhood, and Adam did not deal with it well. As a teenager heard his dad talk about undercover work and drug...
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Season 2
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Episode 54
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32:08

Several Years in One of the Deadliest Prisons in Georgia, But When God Showed Up and Shannon Surrendered, EVERYTHING CHANGED--The Miraculous Conclusion of Shannon Cook's Story.
Shannon shares in great detail about the demonic oppression she faced before she finally surrendered to the Lord and He brought her out of the darkness, but she still had to face the consequence of several years in one of the deadliest prisons ...
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Season 2
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Episode 53
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39:17

Turning to Drugs to Cover the Pain: Rape, Abuse, Manipulation, Shame, Guilt, and Emptiness--Shannon Cook's Story (Part 1)
Shannon shares it all, she opens up about being raped at age 14 and about the trajectory of tragedy her life took from that point on. She shares about multiple abusive and failed relationships, severe drug addiction, and how she came to t...
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Season 2
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Episode 52
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33:25

Death Does Not Win! How Jesus Turned Tragedy Into Beauty and Created a Life Better Than Ever Between Jasmine and Her Mom (Part 2 of Jasmine Connell's Story)
Jasmine's Mom loved her, but so often was not the mother that Jasmine needed, especially when her brother Duncan died in a car accident. Jasmine concludes her story by sharing some of the darkest times of her life, but the story does not ...
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Season 2
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Episode 51
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40:10

How Drinking Hurts Your Kids: Jasmine Connell's Story About Growing Up With an Alcoholic Mom (Part 1)
Jasmine shares what life was like growing up with a Mom who was an addict. One of the craziest times of her life was when she was 17 and working in a bar and her mom would embarrass her by coming to the same bar and getting totally wasted...
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Season 2
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Episode 50
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36:57

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 so...
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Season 2
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Episode 49
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33:23

An Absent Father, An Enabling Mother, and a Teenage Addict...Mike Beach's Story (Part 1)
Mike's Dad was too often away at sea, and Mike's Mom let him get away with too much, but Mike's problems were of his own making, and he owns up to them as he shares his incredible story on today's podcast. There are so many powerful lesso...
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Season 2
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Episode 48
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26:47

Riding the Waves, Reaping the Floods, Rescued by Mercy: James Sanders (Sum up and Conclusion Episode)
This episode begins with multiple clips from the first two episodes to give a summary of Jame's entire incredible story, and then James brings us up to where he is today, and how incredibly blessed his life is now. To many James' life mig...
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Season 2
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Episode 47
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31:49

A Life Sentence in Prison That Could Have Killed Him, God Used Instead to Remake Him: James Sanders Story (Part 2)
In this episode James shares how the amazing hand of God was working in his life to do miracles he never imagined. James' story has turned out so different than the story of so many others who've gone to prison...and Jesus gets all the gl...
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Season 2
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Episode 46
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25:04

Choosing His Kids Over His Drugs: James Sanders Story (Part 1)
James started down a dark path at a young age, but when Christmas of 1987 came around God gave him a serious wake up call. James woke to find his kids running into the living room where the Christmas tree was only to realize that there we...
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Season 2
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Episode 45
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20:53

Beauty from the Ashes: The Conclusion of Tracy Doughty's Story
This is the part of Tracy's story where Jesus turns the darkness into life and brings tremendous beauty from the ashes of sorrow and hardship. When Tracy had finally had enough and surrendered her heart and her life to Jesus...that is whe...
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Season 2
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Episode 44
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25:58

Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places and All the Wrong Faces: Tracy Doughty's Story (Part 1)
Tracy's story is a powerful illustration of how the enemy works to destroy so many people's lives. Tracy lived what she learned, and that led to great sorrow and heartache. But as Tracy states more than once in this interview, God w...
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Season 2
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Episode 43
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29:10

Fleeing the Devil and Turning to the Lord: Mike Singleton's Story Part 2-Redemption and New Life!
Mike is an amazing man with an amazing story. In this part two episode he shares some more about his new life, the challenges, the joys, and the fact that he would never go back to his old life! Mike also shares several helpful less...
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Season 2
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Episode 42
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25:57

Turning to the Devil as a Teenager: Mike Singleton's Story
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...
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Season 2
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Episode 41
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29:54

Jesus Redeems the Bad Boy: The Amazing Conlusion to Sammy's Story!
We left the story last week when Josh had been medically detoxed and "freed" from his opiate addiction, only to dive deep into another destructive addiction to gambling. Hear how Sammy God got brought someone into Josh's life who was fina...
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Season 2
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Episode 40
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31:37

Letting the Bad Boy Go: Sammy's Story (Part 2)
The deepest darkness of Sammy and Josh's relationship. Sammy came to the place where she was not blind to the evil reality of what Josh had become and she did everything she could to call him out, hold him accountable, and push him toward...
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Season 2
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Episode 39
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21:25

Falling for the Bad Boy: Sammy's Story (Part 1)
Sammy was drawn to "the bad boy" and the particular boy she found was like a tornado of trouble from the beginning. Sammy was not an addict herself but was deeply affected by addiction because the person she loved was an addict. The...
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32:09

Collapsing into the Arms of a Loving God, Christy's Story Part 2.
In this conclusion of Christy's story, she shares how her life becomes utterly and entirely unhinged. Tragedy strikes and her self-destructive behavior goes into overdrive and nearly kills her. But when she collapses at the point of...
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Season 2
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Episode 37
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38:27
