--TESTIMONY / BONITA~~

--"When I came to Pacific Garden Mission I was a heroin addict. I had been on heroin for 25 years. I did not think I was ever going to be off it. I thought I was going to die a heroin addict. You Couldn't have told me that God was going to deliver me. I remember the night I cam through those doors. I felt like I had hit rock bottom. I kept telling myself I must be close to dying soon. I didn't know I was going to come to life once I came here.

"It's amazing thinking of how I came here and joined the Bible Program. God used the women upstairs who worked here to mold me into the woman I am today. I was rough when I first got here, and I tell women every day about joining the Bible program. I tell women here 'Why don't you come upstairs and give yourself a chance? Give God a chance.'

"I tell them this is not an easy walk. After you have used drugs for over two decades, it is hard to know who you are. When I was first here, I was getting to know who I was just as much as the others around me were getting to know who I was.

"I have not looked back. Today I look at my children; I look at my grandchildren. My grand-baby brought tears to my eyes recently when she said 'Grandma, you're the best grandma in the world.' It's so amazing how I went from having no part in my family's life to where I am now. My family just sees it and smiles because they know it's only through the power of God, it is nothing that I did. It had to come from God because I could not have done this on my own. I now know the true power of God. I work for the New Day program here at 'Pacific Garden Mission' as a substance abuse counselor.

"God has turned the negative into positive. Every time I think about my life I think of Romans 8:28: "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose." I went from using heroin for 25 years to now having the opportunity to share my testimony and help these ladies that come here hopeless and homeless, and I tell them to look at my life, see what God had deliver me from If God could do it for me, He could do it for them. Today I am a fully functioning follower of Jesus Christ." ~~
-"Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever." -(Hebrews 13:8)
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