Shining at Hope Ministries

Sister Carmella Peate shared a message about the Lover of My Soul 

with our Mentoring & Support Group

The Daughters of Naomi Embraced has partnered with Hope Ministries to offer a Spiritual Elective Class as part of their required courses.

We are blessed to have many qualified women who have a deep relationship with Jesus Christ as well as study of the Word. Two very important qualities in a teacher of the scriptures. This group has a target audience of those who have been addicted, abandoned and abused. Many times we hear speakers but they don't have experience in the areas of life we've been through. Our objective is to empower women and there's no better way than to have women who have been through some things in life to speak from their personal experience.

Mrs. Carmella Peate & Pastor Jennifer Sabin

Sister Carmella has been delivered from drug abuse and has an amazing walk with God . . . her story is one of love, compassion and the grace she has experienced through restoration by the power of Christ.

New Year to Shine the Light!

Sisters of Strength Support Group at Hope Ministries . . .

We will be holding our meetings at a local shelter downtown South Bend for women with addictions, abuse and abandonment. Reaching out to our community is a way to shine the light on social and spiritual issues. For the healing to begin there needs to be a reveal of hurts, wounds and scars. The Word of God is a balm that the Great Physician applies to our lives. The way to move forward is to be able to deal with the past and look ahead to the future!

As we begin 2018 on January 4th we'll have our first class of the New year

We'll have some worship & get into the Word of God

Building relationship is important and we look forward to growing together!

Our guest speaker is Dr. Mark Lantz, Pastor of Christian Center Church

With a message of vision & good news for the New Year there will be a time of connecting the women of Hope with a local church that has a heart for their souls.

My Christmas Wish

The song says . . .

"No more lives torn apart,
Then wars would never start
And time would heal all hearts.
And everyone would have a friend,
And right would always win,
And love would never end
This is my grown-up Christmas list."

Songwriters: Linda Thompson / David Foster

Grown-Up Christmas List lyrics copyright Peermusic Publishing, Warner/Chappell Music Inc.

This Christmas we took time out of our busy holiday schedules to show some women that the body of Christ cares. We read the Christmas story to the children and moms at a local shelter in our city. Our ladies in our group brought goodies & drinks as well as a lot of love and the light of Jesus. The evening there gave us an opportunity to share, listen and pray with the women and children.

Volunteers for Daughters of Naomi Embraced 

with Volunteer Coordinator, Jill Gunn at 

Hope Ministries downtown South Bend

Their situations are delicate, most having hard times, in different ways, but the struggle is evident. Women not having a sense of self-worth or relying on someone else to be their source, sometimes to their detriment. Only the good news of the gospel can change these lives. What a privilege to represent our Saviour and Lord, Jesus Christ! 

2nd Corinthians 4:16-18 "So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal."

HOPE MINISTRIES CHRISTMAS OUTREACH

Monday, December 18th at 7:00 p.m.

The reading of the Christmas story for the women 

& children at Hope Ministries downtown South Bend.

We will aslo have refreshments, goodies & sing carols!

Mentoring & Support Group

Sisters of Strength

For the last two years we have met to teach, encourage and guide women that have come from various backgrounds. Most have been through some type of abuse, addiction and/or abandonment. The wonderful thing about women that come to us is that their lives are being changed by the choice they make to seek help. 

Those who remain consistent to attend the weekly meetings and stay plugged into the group eventually become free to overcome the hurts of their past. Some have run from God and yet know He is there only source of hope and deliverance. They are given the encouragement they needs as well as the disciplines of living a victorious life through the power of the Word of God.

Many share their testimonies of lives transformed from death, destructive behavior & incarceration. Others needed to know the love of God that will restore, heal and empower them to be the confident woman they were created. As the old person finds a new way to live and they discover there's a power they've never experienced before anything becomes possible!

We've had our women's stories told on radio, television and podcasts . . . 

Fighting on the Frontlines: Courtney's Second Chance

Regardless of the medium used to tell the stories, we know that none of this would be possible without the support of those that believe in the work being done. For that, we say thank you for making a difference in lives of women.

D.O.N.E. Women's Home 1st Annual Banquet & Auction

This first year of our Banquet & Auction we had a successful fundraiser as our friends sponsored tables and bid on the desserts. The setting of the Harvest Grind Cafe at Christian Center Church was perfect!

We had over a half a dozen churches give or participate in the evening. Our thanks to Pastor Mark & Crystal Lantz, Pastor Dave & Tina Spurlock, Pastor Dave & Jeaneen Klahr, New Creation Fellowhip, Corner Stone Bible Fellowship, Pastor Canneth Lee, Kingdom Harvest Christian Center, Pastor Dave & Sharon Wickens, Living Water Church, and Pastor Gil Michel, That Church Downtown. The body of Christ coming together as one as is the will of God!

Our ladies had wonderful things to share . . . Leigh Prathaftakis blessed us with a song, "Clean" accompanied by Brian Gillam on keys. Nancy Vasquez served along with Becca Hire, and the other ladies that gave testimony: Courtney and her husband Steve, Whitney, Keishanda, and Alexa. The night opened with a skit by Pastor Jennifer Sabin & Leigh followed by a praise dance by Pastor Christine Jacobs and Jashay Johnson to "It Ain't Over" as poster board testimonies proceeded.

Testimony speakers:

Courtney & Steve

Keishanda

Whitney

Alexa

We were blessed to have so many friends come to support us in raising funds and awareness for women in our community that have been abused, addicted & abandoned. The night included a dessert auction as well as music by Canneth Lee & friends. Our Pastor, Dr. Mark Lantz shared an encouraging word and closing prayer. Believing God to bring our vision to pass & moving forward as the Lord leads us. Please continue to pray for the Women's Home and those that we work with weekly to be completely delivered, set free & restored!!

                      Weekly Mentoring & Support Group

To donate make you can click the PayPal link for credit/debit card or mail check to: Daughters of Naomi Embraced 4217 York Rd. South Bend, IN 46614

Email: donewomenshome@gmail.com 

Phone: (574)360-8092

Jashay's Testimony

Testimony of Jashay

She was adopted, her mother is mentally ill & her father was murdered when she was a child, her adopted mother was emotionally & physically abusive passed away and she was left looking for love in whoever she could find it from . . . Her feelings of rejection & abandonment could only be healed through the power of the Holy Spirit. She explains her experience of being saved, delivered & being baptized in the Holy Spirit!

Later in College she got involved in church she found control in a different way. Moving back to her hometown she was searching again for a church home. Coming to Christian Center Church she found real anointing, real love & a way to overcome the hurt & offense from her past. Joining the Daughters of Naomi Embraced, Jashay has grown in her walk with Christ & developed her calling. She has participated in outreach, volunteered at the Right to Life booth at the St. Joseph County 4-H Fair & preformed a praise dance at the Annual Banquet this year.

Hope Ministries Shelter passing out Beauty Bags

Island Park Outreach in Elkhart

Right to Life booth at the St. Joseph Co. 4-H Fair

D.O.N.E. Women's Home Banquet praise dance