I felt completely free of my sins
except the abortion sin.
I did not believe that God could forgive that sin.
I met this guy at a bar and we hit it off.
About two weeks in
I found out I was pregnant
and I was
fairly excited, at first,
and he was absolutely not.
And my mother
was absolutely against it.
So, she made the appointment and
I didn't have a say,
And I swallowed everything.
I buried it so deep into my soul
that it never came out again.
It came out in other ways:
drinking, drugs,
bars, meeting men,
promiscuity,
lots and lots of that,
which is horrible.
But that was, that was my life.
It was the week of Christmas.
of 2013.
I was listening to a sermon and
At that moment all of a sudden I had every sin that I had committed
flash before my brain. I mean it was
everything that I had done and it was a whole lot
and I couldn't stop crying.
I cried for hours.
That day was the start of
me just changing my life for God and
I felt completely free of my sins
except the abortion sin.
I did not believe that God could forgive that sin.
In 2017,
September of 2017,
my church
was doing a serve day.
And I saw, you can go and help at a pregnancy center.
And so I signed up.
The second I walked into that building
it was like, I felt God's presence instantaneously.
I learned that they do a,
an abortion recovery program there.
And so I hesitantly started that.
It was super hard,
super hard because I had buried it for so many years.
And, but in the end, after eight weeks,
I just,
I felt thousands of pounds lifted off of me.
I had a hole in my heart that had healed,
and I knew that I was gonna see my baby again someday.
So, once I started volunteering every Wednesday
I liked getting to talk with the moms.
And me being able to relate to how broken
these ladies were, it just,
I wanted to reassure them that it's okay
and that you don't have to be perfect
before you come to Jesus.
I did that for about two years.
And then they approached me with
an offer to be client services manager.
About nine,
10 months later, asked me to be the executive director.
And the fact that God has brought me here
absolutely blows my mind every day.
I'm thankful for the pain that I did have
coming to this day, the,
the struggles that I had coming to where I am today
because I wouldn't be able to have the compassion
and the heart, and the love for these women and babies.
There's needs everywhere. Even if you don't feel qualified for anything,
find a local pregnancy center,
take that first step
and God is going to bless that and
you can just go once a month
or whatever you feel your time is, you know,
available to do.
They say that
it's empowering
and you can go on with your life.
You can get your degree,
you can do these things if you don't have this baby.
Whereas, that is so far from the truth.
And being able to know the truth though,
and being able to heal from the lies is empowering.
The truth sets you free.
It really, truly does.
Jesus rescued me from such a dark place
and I will forever
live to tell about it
and make sure everybody knows
who my God is.