Breanne
Oxford, NJ
2019
Breanne was in eighth grade when her mom was diagnosed with ovarian cancer.
“She fought like a warrior, but seeing her suffer left me angry,” Breanne remembers.
To cope with her mom’s sickness, Breanne started to experiment with drugs and alcohol as a teenager. It made her feel like a normal kid, instead of one whose mom was dying in front of her eyes.
The cycle of addiction traveled with Breanne to college, back to home, and to every job she had. The drugs only got harsher and stronger … mushrooms, opiates, heroin. Despite overdosing and waking up in a bathtub with a cracked rib, Breanne was in complete denial.
Breanne plunged into the evil and dark side of addiction and life on the streets. “I endured things a woman experiences while being homeless. Prostitution. Overdoses. Rapes. Assaults. I was trafficked.”
Against all hope, Breanne entered a detox program in New Jersey when two women came in … “glowing.” “They told us about the freedom, peace, and contentment they found in Jesus,” Breanne says. “They had what I searched for my entire life.”
God used Hoving Home’s outreach in this facility to show Breanne she matters.
Since Breanne didn’t grow up going to church, she encountered the personal love of God for the very first time at Hoving Home. After entering our doors as an atheist, she surrendered her past, her trauma, and her mistakes to Jesus’ Lordship. The time, space, and freedom she had to sit with God was exactly what other detox programs couldn’t offer.
It’s been over 6 years since Breanne graduated from Hoving Home! Today, Breanne is married to a wonderful man and is stepmom to a beautiful little girl.
Breanne also shares her story with other women who are living in darkness and despair as one of our Outreach Coordinators.
“It’s an honor to remind them that they are never too far gone,” Breanne shares. “They’re the ‘one’ the Lord will chase down. Just like he did for me.”
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