NEW LIFE ADVOCACY COUNCIL-DARMO

"Safe and Warm"

“I came to NLAC a hurt and devastated woman.  I was separated from my husband because of adultery and domestic violence.   I am a mother of two young beautiful boys.  In my separation, I started smoking weed, which led to an everyday thing.  When I didn’t have my kids on the weekends, all I did was party.   I started dating a drug dealer, and let him move into my home.

I was smoking weed several times a day.  I started drinking and when I drank I drank to get twisted.   I even passed out in a club because I was drunk and high.   All of this caused me  to get evicted from my apartment.  After that my boyfriend and I broke up, me and my boys have no where to go!  My boys stayed with my Mom and my sister, after a couple of days they let me stay too, but my Dad only gave me thirty days to find somewhere else.

Nothing was working out at all.  I couldn’t even find a room to rent.  My Mom took me to my brother’s church and the Pastor gave me Tim Buffaloe’s number.  After a long emotional phone call, I exhaled and felt relief.   It was time to start a new life!  I realized that God snatched me up out of that horrible situation for a fresh start.  Mr. Buffaloe told me  that I would have a safe place for me and my children, off the streets.   

I stayed in NLAC for a year.  I met new people who were in the same situation I was, if not worse.   I joined a church, got baptized.   I formed a new relation with God and the leaders he sent me.   My husband even came to NLAC and we tried to work on reconciliation despite of me.  After a year, I walked away.  I left NLAC and tried to go on my own.  I told God I just wasn’t ready and I had to give up.  Well, the devil grabbed hold of that opportunity!

He had me back to drugs, drinking, and adultery all over again.   It was seven times worse.  These evil spirits were on me like white on rice.  My youngest son developed asthma, he was in the hospital for ten hours before they got him stable enough to go home.  Again, I had no place to go.  God had to take me down to practically living out of my van.   I got fired from my job!  All I had left was my boys and our things.   As I sat and cried one evening after my brother told me he couldn’t help me.   I humbled myself and called NLAC, they all welcomed me back with open arms.

That night I cried to God and begged his forgiveness, thanking Him that he is a forgiving God and thanking Him that I still had my boys.   From that moment I have a peace about me, I am ready for a clean slate and feel as white as snow.  I am ready to get and even better job than I had before, and in due time settle into my own home that God will provide for me and my boys.   I am waving bye bye to the devil and staying with God where it is safe and warm.”