"There is Power in The Name of Jesus...To Break Every Chain"

These words are often sung by our praise team here at New Beginnings but this month we have seen them come to reality. The Lord has sent a delivering, liberating and chain breaking spirit to all of us here at New Beginnings Outreach Ministries. I have seen in do a lot of things in my time of serving Him but this has been one of the most powerful movements of The Holy Spirit I have ever been involved in. He has been setting people that have been bound by sin and addiction free and giving them a complete new identity.

This would not be possible without the financial support of the friends of this ministry. It still amazes me every month how The Lord moves people to sacrificially give to this ministry. I personally thank you for trusting us with your gifts to invest in the lives of these men and women.  As of this present time both male and female facilities are completely full with waiting list of people trying to get help from drugs and alcohol addictions. As of this present time the wait on that list is about 3 months.  This week I spoke with a father of a young lady that passed away while on our waiting list. He has taken it as a mission to help Freedom Hall build a larger facility for females. As of this writing we have commissioned an architect to draw plans for that facility (plan cost $3500.00) that will have the capacity to hold 24 females. The building and the sewage upgrade should be able to be constructed for around $60,000.00. When know that is a mountain but His Word says that if we will have faith the size of a grain of mustard seed he would move that mountain. Look for a mountain to move in Piketon, Ohio.

We love each of you and thank you for your continued support.

Pastor Barry Pelphrey

New Beginnings Outreach Ministries

Growing up in a loving, supportive, Christian home briefly describes my childhood.  My parents always took my sister and myself to church and wanted to make sure we had a strong foundation in Christ.  While in school, I was an honor student; having teachers as parents helped this immensely.  Throughout my school years, I was involved in extra-curricular activities and sports.  After graduating high school, I received several scholarships and attended college.  Before my junior year of college, my mom and dad were in a tragic motorcycle accident.  My mom ended up dying after being in a coma for a month.  This is where my life took a turn for the worst.  I decide I did not want anything in my life to remind me of my mother.  I completely changed the person who I was and became someone I thought I would never be.  I started hanging with the wrong people and doing pills, mostly opiates.  At this point in time, school was a thing of the past. I was only focused on my drug habit.  Since I did not have a job, I had to rely on manipulating my dad for money.  After a year of the same endless cycle, I was finally caught.  I ended up being put on probation for three years and was ordered to stay clean and sober.  For the first time in several years, my future started to look bright.  I began to love my life and the Lord.  I changed the environments and people that I knew brought me down.  Life was good. Addiction is a powerful disease.  At your weakest moments, it will sneak up and try to overtake you.  This is exactly what happened to me.  I relapsed after being back in school for a year.  I continued to use for almost two years.  My family could tell there were changes taking place in me but they had no idea I was on drugs again.  When my dad found out, he was devastated.  However, he was more supportive and loving than I could have ever imagined he would be.  All he wanted was for me to get well.  He did everything in his power to help me overcome my addiction.  Neither of us fully grasped that we were completely powerless in the battle.  I wanted to get clean for a long time.  I always knew what kind of life I wanted to live and using drugs was not a part of the equation. New Beginnings saved my life.  They are giving me the tools that I need to not only stay clean and sober but to live life on life's terms.  God is number one in my life today and I intend for it to remain that way.  I strive daily to be a better woman in Christ.  Without God's unconditional love and forgiveness, I would have been lost to sin.  Thankfully, I am a new woman because of the bloodshed from Jesus. 

"And after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, support, strengthen, and establish you". 1 Peter 5:10

Alicia Robinson

My name is Diana Douglas and I am 26 years old and have been in recovery for five months.  New Beginnings Freedom Hall has drastically changed my life for the good.  I am a mother of two beautiful boys, age 9 and 3.  Coming here has shown me how to be a good mother, clean and sober.  God has given me the chance to break the generational curse that has plagued my family for years.  I thank God everyday for my new life with Him. 

"I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it, but what I do; forgetting what is behind and straining for what is ahead". Philippians 3:13

My name is David Rayburn and I am a recovering addict at Freedom Hall Recovery Center.  I have been using drugs in one form or another for almost thirty years and have struggled with many other personal demons in my life.  I first came to Freedom Hall in August of 2010 and was a resident there for about ten months and came to know a real love and grace of Jesus Christ for the first time in my life.  I grew up in church as a child and even a lot of my adult life, but my perception of God was one of judgment and rules that made it impossible to have any kind of relationship with Him.  The God I saw hated me and was waiting for me to do something wrong so He could hurt me, and I came to believe that there wasn't anything good in me.  That I was a "bad seed" if you will, that only hurt people that I loved and cared for the most in my life.  I couldn't see anything good in me at all and the world around me, and the only way that I could imagine the pain inside would ever end was death. I was absolutely hopeless and was stuck in such a deep, dark place in my life.  I came to Freedom Hall not wanting anything to do with this God who had apparently put me in this world for his own amusement of watching me suffer.  I spent so much time wondering how, could this God be so cruel, and why does he hate me so much?  Freedom Hall and New Beginnings have shown me through coming here that I am a good person, worthy of love and that life isn't bad.  It's a beautiful thing.  I gave my life to Jesus Christ on August 30, 2010 and, I would be lying if I said that it's all been rainbows and butterflies.  It has still been really hard, but I have hope today, that I never dreamed possible and a peace inside that could only come from MY JESUS.  I have had to fight through another relapse and felt like I had let God down yet again, but I realize today that He is right there to pick me right back up and wrap me up in His arms and tell me that everything is going to be ok. I see the love of Christ each and every day all around me here.  Thank you for saving my life! A life worth living today. 

Hi, my name is Tony Mustard and this is my testimony.  I was born 9-14-70, born and raised in Pike County.  At the age of 23 I was hired in with the Department of Corrections.  I was a correctional officer at CRC.  My second year of employment I started to the use of anabolic steroids and I began to power lift to make me a stronger person and officer.  The drug took over my life for ten years and during this time I lost my brother, my life and my job.  I continued my use to cover my emotions and feelings.  At the age of 32 I came off the steroid use and went to pain pills, coke, crack, heroin and meth.  This went on for the last 8 years. On 01-17-12 I was arrested for manufacturing meth.  After sitting in jail for 33 days I was given a chance to get recovery at Freedom Hall.  I told my parents and the prosecutor "NO" because I didn't believe in God, but I went anyway. I went for my parents, to ease their mind.  Man, let me tell you, from day one since I have been at Freedom Hall, God put his arms around me and opened my eyes and my heart.  On 03-21-12 I surrendered my life to the Lord and He delivered me from my sins and my burdens in my life.  I give God all the praise and glory in my life now.  I want to thank God, my Lord Jesus Christ, my church, Barry and Angie Pelphrey and my parents for their love and prayers.