Reconciliation Resources is entering its eighth year of ministry under the Great Commission Foundation. What a blessing to be a part of a Christian organization who cares and works tirelessly for their ministries they support. Thank you GCF!! We are truly grateful.
We’d like to highlight a powerful testimony this past season that shows how RR is impacting eternity as a connector, bridge, a link in Saskatoon, SK, advancing God’s Kingdom, reconciling people to God, to one another and transforming people within through the healing power of Jesus Christ. Whether through volunteer facilitators offering faith-based support groups for divorce, grief, parenting, Grandfamily/kinship, addiction recovery programs or ministry initiatives like ministering in local prisons and/or supporting street outreach, like the Love Lives Here Bus, we try to connect people with God’s healing resources within our volunteer community.
One example of that is found in the life of Shelia A. who shared her 25-minute testimony for her first time at our Celebrate Recovery Program this past fall. RR had taken a year to recruit leaders to facilitate an inner city Celebrate Recovery. Sheila is a trained team leader along with 25 others Celebrate Recovery RR leaders. She drives 4 hours each week to attend and serve Friday evenings in one of our host churches in the inner city of downtown….an area where she remembers roaming as a powerless addict to alcohol and hard drugs less than two years ago. She has run into some of these people and has been able to share the Gospel. We praise God for His Glory through her testimony. She attributes her strength to reading the living Word every day. Here’s a portion of her amazing miraculous story shared by her permission.
“For the Lord your God is He who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies to save you.” Deut. 20:4
Sheila was lost on the streets to addictions, experiencing horrifying trauma no woman should ever go through. Just before COVID, Darryl and I had met her one of the times we had joined the Love Bus team to pray, serve, sing, and hand out Bibles and clothing. I remember this worn, striking woman, and wondered why she was on the streets. I contemplated how she ended up in the circumstances she was in. Darryl and I remembered praying over her and for her and kept her in our prayers. She was this elegant, shattered lady with a chic hat. I remembered who she was when she entered my LifeChange counselling office the second time, wearing a similar stylish hat. God weaved The Love Lives Here Bus, RR, prison, and LifeChange Coaching, Counselling, & Consulting together in His creative way. Here is an excerpt of her story shared at our RR Christmas Connection Dinner 2023 where 70 of our team and friends of RR gathered to pray, eat, and fellowship.
“My name is Sheila. I am a proud follower of Jesus Christ. I am from Ahtahkakoop First Nation. I am 45 years old and for almost 30 years of my life I had been addicted to alcohol and hard drugs. I became a slave to this addiction. I had become someone I didn’t recognize or even like and for the last 5 years of this addiction, it was an everyday, all day, tiring, endless cycle. I am now a recovering addict. I was homeless on the streets of Saskatoon for 5-6 years. I went to jail in 2021.I stayed in a rehabilitation centre in an integration unit. They wanted me to start seeing a counsellor. I had just given my life to God in prison, and He changed my life. They wanted me to start seeing an addiction’s counsellor. It wouldn’t do me any good if I just saw any counsellor. So they found Jodi and as it turned out I had met her on the streets at the Love Bus. I had gone to the Love Bus on many occasions to get hot dogs and hot chocolate or hot coffee or clothes. And, she prayed for me. So that’s how I met her and some volunteer members of RR. Then I started seeing her. It just changed my life. She gave me a Bible. And, I read that Bible and the words changed my life. I’m sober now for 22 months. I work at the office for first nations. I work at the office as the chief’s assistant. God has just totally changed my life.”
Prayer Request:
Pray for God's continued restoration through Reconciliation Resources—blessing the ministry, its leaders, volunteers, and every life being transformed.
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