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Freedom Hall Recovery Center Newsletter
September 2014

The Happenings

Wow! Summer has flown by and so many great things have happened here at Freedom Hall this summer as we have had many residents graduate the program and this has allowed us to see many new faces arrive at the facility. We have been blessed with enough finances to put some finishing touches on "Tony's House of Hope" and replace the rotten fascia board and gutters on men's facility. God continues to bless us here and meet every need. We are truly blessed to have friends like you that make every testimony possible, that allow broken hearts to be mended, families restored and dreams fulfilled and I thank you for making this possible.  

I know many of you do not get a chance to visit us but I would like to invite you to join us for Homecoming 2014 November 1st and 2nd this is a great weekend and we would love to have you with us (see below for details).

 

 


Homecoming 2014 November 1 & 2

Saturday November 1st @ Legacy Farms - Covered Dish Dinner at Noon, Baptism @ 2:30- Come and enjoy the day with us at this great facility.

Sunday November 2nd- @ The Church 11 am praise, worship and celebration of lives changed.

The Testimony of Change

 

If I had to choose one word to describe my life I would have to say....Misery. It seems no matter what I did I would lead myself right back to misery. From a very early age I knew I was different from my siblings. I always made the wrong decisions. Even when I knew it was wrong. I just didn't seem to care about the consequences. I was always in trouble. I was incarcerated for the first time when I was 13. I was sent to the Department of Youth Services. The time I spent there things seemed to get drastically worse I would strive on conflict.my entire teenage years were spent behind a fence. When I was released I continued in the same pattern of criminal activity. I got involved in drugs then it became a revolving door with the Judicial Systems. I have been in and out of prison all of my life. I have been in more than out. I tried and tried changing my life but I would always end up doing the same things. I knew I wanted to change I knew I had to change. I made the decision to come to New Beginnings. My life has totally transformed. I have felt the love that I was always missing. I know now what it truly means to be a giver instead of a taker. I have formed a relationship with Jesus Christ. I know that I have totally been forgiven of all my sins. Without Freedom Hall or New Beginnings Outreach Ministry I know I would be living in the same misery and despair. I am so thankful and grateful for this ministry. I have a wonderful relationship with my children now. My family now has there peace of mind back. For the first time I can plan my future with my family. Our pastor Barry Pelphrey say's New Beginnings is a hospital for the broken people. That's exactly what I was broken. I would like to thank New Beginning Outreach for their love and compassion and for giving me a new beginning on life.                           

-Mike   

 

When I grew up I had anything I wanted and could do whatever I wanted. My mother took her life so I was raised by my great grandmother, grandmother, and sister. I grew up in a good home. I had friends did well in school. My great grandmother took me to soccer games and my grandmother always worked. When I was in 5th grade my great grandmother fell ill and everything went downhill from there and I started flunking school, fell into drugs, quit soccer and started getting high and things went bad. I started doing pills and got arrested and I fled to Columbus and I started stealing and fell harder into addiction as I get moving and getting thrown out of places to stay. I moved back to Circleville and stole my Grandmothers car and wrecked it and went to jail it was the first time I felt alone. Then God began to bring me out allowing me to get clean and sober and bringing me closer to my father. Since then He has given me a since of peace of my mother's death and made me truly happy to be alive.

-Nick Picklesiemer

 

I lived in Winterville, Ohio until 9 years old when my parents divorced and I then lived with my father and we moved around the area a lot. I lived in an abusive environment both physical and emotional every day and I came to accept it and allow it to wear me down to nothing. I was scared all the time and even more afraid to do anything about my situation. I always did well in school and sports so that is where I found the outlet for dealing with what I felt. I lived that way for 10 years before I decided that I couldn't take it anymore and I moved in with my mother just before my senior year and for the first time I told someone what had been happening to me and I felt so free. I graduated high school and I began going to college and I began to experiment with drugs and alcohol. I became selfish and self-absorbed.  I noticed that drugs and alcohol took away my anxiety that had built in my life since childhood and I used it as an excuse to party. In my early twenties I began working construction and discovered pain pills. I found they were and instant good mood, relieved stress and anxiety; I was addicted by age 22. I was able to maintain my job, bills, apartment and relationships by staying withdrawn. By the time I was 28 everything had fallen apart. My family noticed and my girlfriend left with our 7 month old son. I survived for another year and my mother found Freedom Hall and it saved my life because I was incapable of doing it myself.

-Blake Murtland

 

My parents divorced when I was 3 years old and my mother remarried to my stepfather who was mentally and physically abusive as well as mistreated me. No one taught me morals or values I needed to become a young man and I lived in a white neighborhood that left me little interaction with people of my own race and culture. This left me searching for identity and where I belong. I got into a lot of trouble and began using drugs at age 14 and by 16 I was placed in a detention center for assault and I did one year there. I tried the Navy but had a poor attitude and was discharged. From there I began selling and using drugs and eventually lost everything as I became a full blown addict. That lifestyle cost me my family, job, son, relationships and freedom that has led me to prison several times for my behavior and drug use. But through God's love, mercy and grace he saved me and brought me to New Beginnings and since I have been here my life has changed for the best. I am allowing God to do his perfect will in my life and change is continuing to come. I thank God, New Beginnings and all of you for my new life today.

-Michael Fisher






Donation Information:
Mail:
New Beginnings Outreach Ministries    
P.O. Box 472
Piketon, Ohio 45661


      

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