CHARITY HILLS
1 Corinthians 13:4-7
Welcome!
I want to thank you for visiting Charity Hills. In 2001 I had a
vision of a home for children, and for families. At the time I was in prison. I
was a young Christian with no idea yet how amazing our God truly is. In the
vision I saw a home for children, and for families. I remember sitting up
amazed at what I had just seen. But the most amazing thing was a sign out in
front made of stone with two words carved upon it “CHARITY HILLS”. I didn’t
know why yet but those two words pulled at me. It was a couple of weeks later
that a friend told me that Charity in the Bible means Love. So the stone
literally meant “Love Heals “. I remember my heart feeling like it had stopped
and the tears that flowed. Oh how I rejoiced in the knowledge that I had a
father that not only cared about me, but about you to! As you read this God has
begun to bring about his plans for my life. We are adopting our first child,
and are trusting God for his guidance for opening Charity Hills. We are foster
parents for two states and have a good relationship with both. We are truly
blessed by a Great and Awesome God!
1 Corinthians 13:4-7
Love is patient, and kind. Love is not jealous, or boastful, or proud, or
rude. Love does not demand its own way. Love is not irritable, and it
keeps no record of when it has been wronged. It is never glad about
injustice, but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
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I want to give thanks to God for all the good things in my life. But it was during the times of adversity that I truly found out how much God loved even me. I asked Gods greatest gift; His Son, into my life when I was thirteen years old. But like many I began to crave the things I saw around me. When I was sixteen my sister died I used this as an excuse and I rebelled against God. By the time I was thirty-two I was as evil as any man walking the earth. On a day in late spring my wife came to me and said she had filed for divorce. Nothing had ever truly touched me, nothing in my years of rebellion had ever pierced the darkness that I lived in. Not my run-ins with the law, my mothers death, or the hurt in my dads eyes when he saw what I had become. Most had given up on me but not God! With the announcement of our impending divorce the walls built around me began to crumble. Like in the story of Jericho God brought down the wall !!!! The wall that had separated Him and I; that I had built up was shattered. I still had to pay a price (for that matter so did many others) for my rebellion(the loss of the ones I loved my children, my wife, my family, and my freedom). But God in His infinite mercy had broken down the walls and right there in my front yard I began to cry. In all my life I had never shed tears like that. All the bitterness, hurt, rage, pain began to pour out of me. My soul cried out to God at last! I do not know how many hours I was in that yard, what I do know is that when I stood up the old JD had passed and all things were made new. God had loved me so much that He never gave up! He knew what it would take and when it would happen. He had a plan for me before I was born and He had brought me back to that plan. I say He brought me back because I was the one that changed my direction; Not God! He had been there faithfully beside me my whole life sending people, and opportunities to repent and come home. I was the one that had pushed Him away. If you have never known the peace God gives through a relationship with His Son Jesus Christ; or if you have, but like me have walked away He is there knocking even now! No matter what you have done or where you've been GOD STILL LOVES YOU!
