Hello! I am from Bradenton, Florida. I grew up in a world of alcohol, sex, and drugs. My mom was a full blown functional alcoholic who did the best she knew how to raise me. My mom worked all the time which left me all alone and enabled me to do whatever I wanted. I grew up with no guidance. When I was 16, I met a guy and was with him until I was about 20 years old. We had a daughter together. After I had my daughter I suffered postpartum depression. I never wanted to be home, so I immersed myself in my job where I would work 60 to 70 hours a week. This is where I started drinking heavily and experimenting heavily with drugs. After my daughter’s father and I broke up I started striping and escorting to make ends meet and to support my drug addiction.
Because of drugs my life was so unmanageable I ended up on the streets in search of my next fix. I was physically, emotionally, spiritually bankrupt, filled with this deep desperation I cannot explain. (As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God? Psalm 42:1-2) A pastor and two ladies had stopped me and started to talk to me about Jesus. Right there on the street I invited Jesus into my life! My life miraculously did not change. Instead I got arrested and was in and out of jail more times I like to count. I was exhausted. At this point of my life I have seen so many things I wish I could unsee. When my pain was so great I cried out to God Who I wasn’t sure even existed. He was my only hope, and He rescued me!
I flew to Las Vegas in hopes of a new life. Immediately I was surrounded by an army of women who radiated the love of Jesus. They have never given up on me and loved me through my poor choices that landed me on my knees in complete surrender. I walked through the doors of Hoving Home damaged, broken, and truly at the end of my rope. Hoving Home welcomed me with wide open arms and has loved me back to life!
God has restored my family. Because of the love that I was given on a daily basis, I am now able to pour the love of Jesus into my daughter’s life. I am forever grateful. I have been provided an environment that enabled me to learn the truth of who I am in Jesus Christ. I love spending time with God, allowing His Word to become who I am and how I live my life. After completing the program in Las Vegas, Nevada I was accepted into the Leadership Academy in Garrison, New York where I deepened my knowledge of God and allowed the Holy Spirit to lead and guide me through the plans God has for my life.
God has called me to street ministry. Very recently I was offered the Outreach Coordinator position at Hoving Home in Rose Hill, North Carolina. God has called me back to the places He has delivered me from on a mission to rescue women who were just like me out of the darkness into His marvelous light. Who is Jesus Christ!
Today I can stand here and tell you that I met a man who told me everything I ever did! That man is Jesus! He sees me. He knows me. And He loves me. I am the one Jesus loves! I am forever in debt to Him who paid the highest price for my life. (However, I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me -the task of testifying to the good news of God’s grace. Acts 20:24)
Get to Know Rosie Dillon
What is your favorite scripture?
2 Corinthians 5:14-15
“For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died; and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.”
What book is on my nightstand?
Driven By Eternity by John Bevere.
What is one of your favorite memories at Hoving Home?
Sitting around the campfire in Las Vegas with the ladies from California. Oh! I can’t forget the day both homes spent the day together at the beach!
What is your favorite food?
Sushi!
What makes you laugh?
Others laughing and having a good time.
What is one of your favorite quotes?
“The greatest need you and I have—the greatest need of collective humanity—is renovation of our hearts. That spiritual place within us from which outlook, choices, and actions come has been formed by a world away from God. Now it must be transformed”.
– Dallas Willard