My name is Kathryn Pendleton and I am 39 years old.  I  am a graduate of the Hope for Women Discipleship Program. For many years I had struggled with an addiction to drugs and the hopelessness of where the drugs had taken me.

Today I am drug free and learning how to live a life of victory. I am learning to take everything to Jesus and to let Him love me.  My life is filled with peace, joy and love.

I am currently serving in the internship program and I am learning to walk by His Spirit and to share His love with others.  Your gracious and loving heart has  given me a new life in Jesus Christ

My name is Melanie and I am 23 years old. I was a student in the Hope for Women Discipleship Program at Faith City Ministries. 

Due to my addiction to drugs, my life had become hopeless. Since being at Faith City, God has set me free from drugs and I am learning a new way to think and live. God has healed me and restored my life. I graduated from the Hope Program in October 2008. Because of your generous donation and loving heart I have been given a second chance.

The last thing I remembered was getting up in the night and heading to the bathroom.  The next thing I knew, I was lying face down on the tile floor hearing my husband calling my name. 

It was the third time in a week that something bazaar overtook my body. On two previous occasions it felt like a baseball bat whacked me at the base of the skull. After each occasion I became violently ill. 

From the tile floor, my husband took me to the ER where we discovered that I had an aneurysm that was bleeding. The neurologist sent us to Dallas to a neurosurgeon, Dr. Welch, who specialized in aneurysms (he looked to be about 15). After relating my events, he said "what you are telling me deeply disturbs me. Eighty percent of the people who experience one bleed die on the way to the hospital. You have bled three times. Of the 20% who live, half experience permanent major impairment. You are a walking time bomb, so we are going to surgery right now." which we did. As the surgery progressed, I had a stroke on the table, and the aneurysm bled into the brain for the fourth time. My chances for surviving that bleed was .016%. 

I am alive with absolutely no impairment, which the neurosurgeon calls a miracle. He said, "you should have died on the bathroom floor." 

I contend that God’s extraordinary power through the prayers of myriads of people from multiple churches saved me from sure death. God has been VERY kind to me, and for that I am boundlessly grateful. My life is changed forever, and I will never be the same.

My name is David Wilks and I have struggled with alcoholism all my life. My older brother put beer in my baby bottle to put me to sleep. By age twenty one I had been in six treatment centers. I was sober only when I was locked up in jail. After my divorce in 2005, I pretty much gave up on life. For two years I stayed drunk. In April of 2007, I was so sick from drinking that I was close to death. A friend of mine brought me to the VA Hospital in Amarillo. After seven days I was released but I just kept on drinking. I received a DUI and was charged with only a misdemeanor. I had nine more DUI’s on my record. I should have been looking at 20 years in prison, but I was released. This was definitely the hand of God. I entered the Hope for Men Discipleship Program and God changed my life. He delivered me from my alcoholism and for the first time in my life, I like myself. I graduated from the program in 2009. To know Christ in a personal way is to live for the first time in my life. It’s all about Him.