February 2024

Dear Friends of God’s Resort,              

Thank you for being with us in your support and prayers, as we are with people who desperately need love and healing! Only God can and will reward your kindness!

Mary grew up in a good family, but she became known as the “rebellious child.”  That began a lifetime of struggle that took her through things she shouldn’t have survived and several failed relationships that gave her three children. Life as a single mom was hard. Then she met a Christian man that she thought was her “knight in shining armor,”  but he wasn’t.  After years of more struggle that turned to bitterness, she even lost her relationship with her children. It was near Christmas when she realized, having lived with no communication with her husband, that he had not made house payments for so long that their house was repossessed and sold.She now faced homelessness.

God sent her preacher’s wife to check on her at her work, and she asked Mary how she was doing.  Finally, being honest, she poured out her heart. They suggested she come to God’s Resort. At first, she resisted the idea, but God said to her, “You need to go to God’s Resort!”  She now sees God was in the middle of her brokenness, and her rebellious spirit began to break!“I was blinded and walking in that darkness until I came to this community of the light of God’s love! My eyes have been opened, and I am learning more than I ever have  how to do life in Christand how to love and be loved! I have always done life alone but now I realize I need Him more than ever!”  God has begun restoring her relationship with her children!

Mary says God’s Resort has become another family for her! “People here are not judgmental because we are all broken, and this is a place where we are all healing!” Along with spiritual healing, she just had major surgery and has been blessed by all the love she has experienced in her recovery.  They even brought the Super Bowl party to her apartment!

Mary is full of joy these days and told me she knows for the first time in her life that  God is with her, and she knows He will never leave her!!  Thank you for making a home where even lonely senior citizens can choose freedom from their past and reach their potential as a child of God!