Chelsea
Leadership Academy
2022
When Chelsea was two years old, she was found wandering around a neighborhood near a police station by herself in her native South Korea.
“Nobody could find anybody that was related to me,” Chelsea shares.
Chelsea was placed in foster care until she was adopted by a family in the United States. While her adoptive family took her to church and tried to teach her about God, Chelsea rebelled against everything she learned.
“I felt like I didn’t fit in anywhere,” Chelsea remembers.
One drug in particular, meth, seized Chelsea’s life immediately—and numbed her throughout an abusive relationship.
“I would walk the streets for hours, wanting protection, and I always found myself at churches. I wasn’t an active believer, but I just knew God was somewhere.”
One day, Chelsea looked in the mirror and saw her two black eyes and a broken wrist and knew, “This is not the life God wants for me.”
Despite her mistakes, Chelsea’s parents never gave up on her and told her about Hoving Home. “Upon walking through the doors, I was met with nothing but love and support from people who didn’t even know me,” she remembers.
After completing the program at our Pasadena, California Home, the Lord opened a door for Chelsea to attend our Leadership Academy.
After some bumps in the road, Chelsea spent a couple more months at our program in Garrison, New York and later graduated from our Leadership Academy. She served as a facilities intern first and then got hired as our education coordinator at our Home in Oxford, NJ!
“I’m really grateful I get to be part of women’s recovery,” Chelsea says.
She sees how Hoving Home supporters play a huge role in each woman’s story and is thankful to see God’s miracles firsthand.
“There’s no way this would happen without their love and generosity!”
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