Rebecca Found a New Life Thanks to Your Support of DRMM.

“When I first arrived at DRMM, I was pregnant and scared. But it didn’t take me very long to settle in. They did so much to take care of me and to help me transition to a new life.”

She can hardly believe it now, but when Rebecca first walked through the doors of DRMM, her life meant almost nothing to her.

Perhaps it was because her mother had died when Rebecca was just 6 years old. Or because the years she lived with her Grandmother, after her mother’s death, were so hard they even included a period of homelessness. Or because she was just 20 years old when her Grandmother died.

After her Grandmother passed away, Rebecca’s life began to spiral out of control. “I was using and selling drugs, and I was pregnant. Somehow, God brought me here,” Rebecca says.

Thanks to the generosity and compassion of friends like you, DRMM was able to take Rebecca in and guide her a down a new path in life. Your support provided the transitional housing, nourishing food, and counseling to overcome addiction and leave the hurts of the past behind.

Your kindness also provided the special care and safe environment that a mother-to-be desperately needs to deliver a healthy baby—a gift that very few shelters are able to offer. And as Rebecca’s pregnancy progressed, the healing of her body and spirit gave her a newfound joy and love for life—and an overwhelming love for the little life growing inside her.

At DRMM, Rebecca learned that she is loved enormously and completely. She learned that Christ died on the cross for her—for all of us. And that through His death, burial, and resurrection, He paid the penalty for our sin, making eternal life possible for all who believe in Him.

Suddenly, life meant everything! And just ten weeks after her arrival, Rebecca welcomed little Shane into the world. To her great relief, her baby was born healthy.

“I want to be the best mom in the world, and DRMM is helping me with that through parenting classes. I want to go to school, and they are helping me with that, too,” Rebecca says. “They are helping me transition to a new life.”

This Easter, Rebecca is thankful for friends like you who keep the doors open at DRMM, and she is deeply grateful for the new beginning you have given her and her son. “I want to thank the donors and tell them that their gifts are going to such a good cause. They are helping mothers and helping children here. They are helping me make a better life for my child.”

Your Support gave Joe a fresh start and new Christmas joy

Joe was at the end of his rope when he walked through the doors of DRMM. He had lost everything and had nowhere else to go. No one cared if he lived or died, except maybe his sister. But she suggested he check out DRMM. “I said, ‘A shelter? I thought I was coming to your house.’ But my family would not accept me,” Joe says.

You see, drug addicts burn more bridges than most people cross in a lifetime.

Once he arrived at DRMM, Joe was amazed at how kind and welcoming everyone was. “They took me in, gave me a bed, and helped me think about the steps I needed to take so I wouldn’t be homeless.”

Your gifts gave Joe the courage and tools to begin again.

Joe had no idea how to break the chains of addiction and begin rebuilding his health, his spirit, and his life.

Every fiber of Joe’s being cried out, “Will you help me? Can you help me?”

“I’m 53 years old. I feel like this might be the only chance I have,” Joe says. “I might not get another chance to get it right.”

“My counselor, he sat me down and we made a plan of all the things I had to do to make a difference in my life,” Joe says. “I started, took it step by step, and things actually started getting better for me.”

Joe is a new man . . . with a life worth living!

This Christmas will be very different for Joe and he is so grateful, so thankful for the help he has received from DRMM and friends like you.

“Your donations really helped me. If it weren’t for donors, there would have been no change in my life. That’s what I really believe,” Joe says. “I came with nothing, but I’m going to leave with something.”

“They really take care of you and make you feel like you have a family. Because when you’re an ex-user, the streets will just swallow you whole,” Joe says. “I thank God for this mission. This is a wonderful place . . . miraculous. They saved my life.”

Because you gave, Joe’s holidays will be free of drugs and filled with new joy. Please share a special gift today to help other lost and broken people experience true hope this Christmas.

Thank you for giving teenage mothers and their little ones a real home and a fresh start in life!

Spring is all about new life, including new lives like Victoria’s baby girl.

“My mother died when I was nine. I totally didn’t know how to take care of a baby,” remembers Victoria. I was two months pregnant when I got here. I wanted to protect myself and be responsible for my baby.”

Thanks to friends like you, we were able to give this frightened teenager a safe and stable place to call home as she welcomed her daughter into the world. Your support also provides educational resources, employment counseling, and valuable parenting skills to help develop self-sufficiency and independence.

Victoria has completed high school and has started college classes, but the education she values the most is learning how to care for her little one. She is amazed at how quickly DRMM has helped her transition from helplessness to confidence. “When I came here, I didn’t have anything. I didn’t have a birth certificate, a social security card—nothing. This place helped me get them and it’s just such a blessing. They help people help themselves.”

Thanks to special friends like you, Victoria is working and has moved into an apartment of her own, where she and her daughter have begun a new life together. Thank you for opening your heart to teenage moms like Victoria, and making a lasting difference.