For the past 13 years, I have had the privilege to see first hand the impact this organization has in the lives of those they help. Grace reaches people who are in their darkest hour and provides a way out. Their efforts have saved the lives of countless women.
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Read moreGrace Ministry of Helping Hands is been in our city helping hundreds of women for years and continue to serve many more. It has help to be one of the puzzles piece on the live of many girls.
Grace Ministry of Helping Hands has been around for a long time helping those in need and continues to do an amazing job.
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I have admired the work of Grace Ministries and Kathleen Jackson for many years. They are doing the very difficult work for people who are most often forgotten and invisible.
Pat Hogan
Grace Ministry is a godsend for trying to start your life anew. Jan Miller started something great, and her legacy lives on through this ministry.
Grace Ministeries is a team of Angels that does way more for our people then we have any right to ask of them. They bless this world with every step of their heartfelt hustle! Love. Respect. Appreciation.
Kathleen and Grace Ministries helps people that most of the world has discarded. They go to the Jails, prisons, and the streets to meet people where they are, and to show the love and kindness like Christ. Kathleen works with them to get the necessities like clothing, food, and housing that is needed for a fresh start. They always love the people and show respect. Truly an amazing organization.
Excellent "boots on the ground" nonprofit. Has the heart and compassion to truly make a difference.
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I have met many women who have benefited from Grace Ministry outreach and are now terrific mothers, employees and citizens. It is a remarkable organisation of dedicated people who are committed to helping women make positive change. So happy to be a friend of Grace Ministry.
Always going above and beyond. Every day show up as the hands and feet of Jesus for anyone in need. It's an honor to work alongside Grace Ministries.
The work Grace does is life saving. Volunteers work with the most overlooked women who deserve love, healing and a chance for a transformed life.
The Rev. Canon Beth Tjoflat
Grace ministries helped find me a sober living house and even payed my first couple months rent until I could get on my feet. I met Ms. Kathleen with the gift of desperation and nowhere to go. I walked into her place of work and asked her if she knew where a hotel was after just getting out of the hospital for am overdose. She asked if I needed a bed at a sober living house (the awakenings house) and I said yes. I broke down crying and she took me there herself, bought me food and hygein and offered to pay the first couple months rent. Since then I have found a new way of life. I have been sober for 10 months now after 1 relapse and am currently at a sober living house in Clearwater (ARC) I am looking for housing to finally get custody of my son again and life has never been better. Thank you all so much!
A wonderful organization with dedicated individuals assisting women with recovery from abuse and/or addictions and the mental health issues associated with those. I highly recommend Grace Ministry of Helping Hands if you or your loved one is in need.
Grace Ministries is a true blessing to those women looking to get a better start. I have seen them help women secure shelter and jobs to begin their new life. I look forward to helping them continue their mission!
This organization has helped me tremendously with my transition back into life …when I was introduced to this program and these lovely ladies I had no clue on how to go about living a healthy/ normal life ,nor did I have a relationship with the LORD ! Through Grace ministries I learned the value of my life and how to be a woman of God ! The best is still yet to come and they haven’t STOPPED helping me even a year later ! Thank you ladies I will forever be grateful ✅
Thank God for Grace ministries I was fixing to be on the street and thanks to Grace Ministries helping hands help me get a place to live I'm not on the streets, I'm in a sober living secure home, with a great future now all thanks to God an Grace Ministry coming to my rescue.I owe them my new life!
What a wonderful organization. I am so supportive of this movement and grateful for all the people who are able to do good in the world. Everything you do is a blessing. Thank you for doing God’s work on this Earth .
Hello my name is Mittzy
I would just like to take a second to express my gratitude for such a wonderful organization. I have had a life filled with abandonment,abuse,drugs and all around self sabotaging behavior it became a coping tool for me to deal with my childhood and life in general deciding I was at my wits end and knocking on deaths door I found recovery and through this journey I was introduced to some phenomenal empowering woman that taught me that I could build a strong foundation to a new life and that I didn't have to face these battles alone then is where I met ms.kathleen and ms.silvia my life hasn't been the same since after I finished rehab I was residing at Awakenings House led by Carla Sweeney and she told me about grace ministries and they stepped in and helped me in ways from food rental assistance mentorship and much more these ladies have been such a bright spot in my life that I will forever be greatful for their compassion and unconditional love
Thanks for all you do for me and many other
Sincerely Mittzy
I dont even know how i can verbalize the impact and change these ladies have facilitated in my life. My first encounter with them was when i was on the streets and the seed of hope was planted. Shortly after that i landed in jail, of course, and reached out to them via mail for help. upon release they provided a safe place to live, all supplies i need, transportation to appointments and job interviews, emotional support guidance and love and a great example of how to be a lady - they left me with no reason or excuse to fail. Their members have been present at the hospital to greet my newborn and i have kept in touch with them throughout the 7 years since our first encounter. they have also helped friends of mine get off the streets. They were there when no one else was during my daily stuggles and lifted me up. when i fell, over and over again. These ladies have been a core piece of my character today and without them I would have never made it off the streets.
Grace Ministries is an absolutely amazing organization! They helped me out when I was in desperate need. Not only financially, but spiritually and emotionally as well. I'm sure that all of the people involved are wonderful, but I have only had the pleasure of meeting Kathleen and Sylvia. These ladies have such beautiful souls and are like angels sent from Heaven!
Grace Ministry has a heart for healing women with addiction and homelessness. I have seen many women over the years, change their lives. Some regain custody of their children, find employment and become productive citizens. Grace uses all the donations to help these women. No one receives a salary. It is all volunteer.
My experience with this program is witnessing the love of God first hand through the women's actions. True servants of the Lord.
Grace Ministry of Helping Hands was there for me when noone else was. They helped me with a Christian Mentor, with a temporary place to live, and when I got my own place, helped me with furniture and household items. They wanted to see me succeed and thrive in life, and not go back to addiction and isolation. Their faith in God, in me, and in my success gave me hope for a better future. They were my support system when I had never had one before. I love them and am forever grateful for Grace Ministry of Helping Hands.
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Grace Ministries has been there for me when I had no one, on more than one occasion. They continue to be a source of love, compassion, understanding, and support for me. I learned through the support I receive through Grace Ministries that there are people who care about others and want them to heal from their past and move forward and succeed in their future. They have truly blessed me. I am forever grateful for Grace Ministries and dont know where I would be without these ladies who mean so much to me.
I have been involved with many nonprofits during the last 30 plus years and Grace Ministry is one of the very best. I served on the board and as the Treasurer of Grace Ministry for over 4 years. Most of the donated funds received by Grace Ministry go to direct financial support of women struggling to break the chains of addiction and a life of sex trafficking entered into to support the addiction. The direct financial support, in turn, is primarily for "rent" in a safe, supportive living arrangement which allows each woman to heal physically and emotionally and find work to become financially self supporting. Even more important, each client is provided with much needed mentoring. Grace Ministry is entirely volunteer run (no paid employees). The volunteers of Grace Ministry are dedicated and caring.
God calls us to be HIS hands and feet. The ladies who volunteer and minister at Grace ministries have heeded HIS call.
Many women have been rescued (from the street and/or trafficking) by and through their LOVE from lives of addiction and hopelessness.
Many are back in the mainstream of life and look forward rather than backward to a life of promise.
The mentors with Grace walk alongside and encourage day by day for as long as the saved lady needs or desires that friendship.
This is REAL love in action.
Grace Ministry has saved my sisters life by giving her purpose. We all need purpose in our lives, but few rank as high as the mission of Grace Ministry.
When I was at my lowest in life, I ran across a wonderful woman from Grace Ministries who took me under her wing as a spiritual mentor and offered selflessly to pay for my first few months in a halfway house. Even through me wanting to live elsewhere and finding turbulence in my recovery, she still reached out every day to let me know I was not alone.. I am still here today, back at the same halfway house. This ministry is beyond measure in selfless acts of kindness. Thank you so much.
With the help of the wonderful women of Grace Ministry I was able to turn my life around from a street level drug addict to a productive member of society contributing to the stream of life. I never would be who or where I am today without Grace Ministry. I am eternally indebted. ❤❤
Grace Ministries is an amazing non profit who spread the love of Jesus to ladies on the streets, in jails and struggling with addiction. The women who I have met with this organization are truly wonderful and I am honored to know them and get to watch the women they help get the light back in their eyes.
Grace Ministries is an absolutely wonderful organization that was there for me at a time in my life where I needed help and support! They are always supportive and there for people like me who are turning thier lives around. They continue to be there and support me in this new journey I'm on. I am truly Greatful for them and continue to strive with their help and support. I always encourage others who are in my situation to contact Grace Ministries as they were and still remain so supportive and encouraging!
My name is Kathleen Jackson and I am the co-founder of Grace Ministry. It never ceases to amaze me how God has continued to use us as His vessels for the last +15 years to bring hope, and light to those who are seemingly hopeless and in the dark. Thank you to all who continue to support and believe in the work that God has called us to do. We cannot do alone what we can do together one precious soul at a time!!!
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My name is Kathleen McDaniel and I am the co-founder of Grace Ministry of Helping Hands. After a most profound and radical spiritual experience with my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, I dedicated my life to helping others. I was in complete bondage of alcohol, drugs and the lifestyle that goes with the darkness of addiction. On June 4, 2006 the Lord delivered me and I have never been the same since. In 2007 He placed a desire in my heart to take the message of freedom and hope to women who are in bondage of drugs, alcohol and sex living on the streets in Jacksonville, Florida. All about the same time I met my ministry partner, Jan Miller and we came together as one to serve the Lord through Grace Ministry. This ministry has been an amazing life-changing experience for me and I know without a shadow of doubt that it is the purpose and reason that God created me. It is all because of Him who presides over us all and I give Him all the glory for allowing us to be used as His hands and feet to carry the message of hope. The Joy of the Lord is truly my strength!!!!!
Grace Ministry was there for me when I had no one. Without their loving care, understanding, and support, I wouldn't be here.
I've had a front row seat to the hope and grace that has transformed the women who have been touched by this organization. They are changing the lives of women who have lost hope. They found the strength encouraged by the leaders and now the ladies of Grace walk with God.
As a volunteer for Grace Ministry of Helping Hands I've had the opportunity to see how these dedicated Christian women walk hand in-hand with individuals who are in great need of love, empathy, support and hope. When someone from Grace reaches out to someone in need, you can be sure they will keep every promise they make. There are endless opportunities to succeed with the help of Grace Ministry of Helping Hands.
Grace Ministry of Helping Hands has been an absolute God-send and miracle in my life.
I was a hard-core drug addict, struggling with daily intravenous use of methamphetamine and heroin. God sent people into my life who were able to connect me to Ms. Kathleen and Grace Ministries. This organization afforded me the opportunity to get on my feet by paying my rent at a women's sober house in Jacksonville, Florida. Even the sober houses that Grace Ministries work with, The Awakenings House, are far above the standard grade and are rooted in faith and spirituality, as well as the internal work necessary for recovering from destructive and life-controlling issues, that might be found through working a twelve step program. Grace Ministries paid my rent and afforded me the opportunity to get clean, get on my feet, seek and establish gainful employment, and become fully self-sufficient.
Another time Grace Ministries has helped me, is by connecting me to a women's Christian recovery program out of state. The weather and climate was much different at this program, based all the way in Wyoming. I flew up out of sunny Florida, leaving the sand and beaches behind, and into snowy and beautiful Wyoming. Mrs. Kathleen of Grace Ministries was able to hook me up with a beautiful wardrobe of clothing, donations directly from her business, "Fifi's Fine Resale." Fifi's is not your average thrift store, either... it is an excellent and extremely high-end fine resale clothing store, with excellent quality and well priced high-end clothing. With the help of Mrs. Kathleen, Grace Ministries, and Fifi's, I was able to fly to Wyoming with a brand new (to me!) wardrobe suited for the cold, wet, Wyoming climate.
I cannot express my gratitude and love for Grace Ministries enough. It has been a blessing and a miracle in my life, more than once. I am eternally grateful to Grace Ministries and Mrs. Kathleen. Grace Ministries was helping me far before I had ever even had the honor of meeting the woman behind the miracle, Mrs. Kathleen. When I finally did meet her, one day around Christmas of 2019, I was extremely intimidated. Standing there in her fine resale shop, thin, underdressed and in dirty clothes, I thought to myself, "Wow, this is a REAL classy southern woman." I hadn't yet heard her testimony, or even seen her brochure. Looking at the photos of Mrs. Kathleen from all of those years ago, before the Lord redeemed her back from this fallen world, and pulled her right out of addiction and hopelessness, I could hardly believe the woman standing in front of me that day in December of 2019 was truly the same woman. Mrs. Kathleen is a living and breathing testimony of the goodness of God, and the redemption of Christ.
I am blessed and honored to have been granted the opportunity to have met Mrs. Kathleen, and for the invaluable help and assistance that Grace Ministries of Helping Hands has provided in and for my life. I truly have no idea where I would today, if I would even be alive, if it weren't for Grace Ministries of Helping Hands.
As Co-Founder of Grace Ministry I am still in awe of God's Amazing Grace. We are getting ready to enter into our 15th year of ministry and I am anxious to see what God has in store. Grace ministry and Awakenings House have been working side by side for the last 4 years. We have merged forces to form The Villages of Hope which will provide more safe, nurturing and healthy housing for the women we help. This vision is God's vision! Thank you for supporting and believing in the work we are doing!!!!
In His Precious Name,
Kathleen Jackson
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As co-founder of GMOHH for the last 13 years, I am still amazed by God 's grace, goodness, love and transforming power. After my ministry partner Jan Miller passed away on June 9, 2019, I was not exactly sure of the next season but God has shown me. He has divinely placed amazing people to come along side of us , provided abundantly to continue doing the work that He called us to do and given us His strength and wisdom. Thank you to all who continuously give of their time, talent and resources and I especially sing, shout and honor the Lord above from whom ALL blessings flow!!!!!
Jan Miller will always be in my heart and soul. Her spirit and Kingdom imprint continues to live on as Grace Ministry continues to move forward!!!
My experience with this ministry changed my life 11 yes ago with unconditional love and patience. I was at my lowest and Grace showed me the tools on how to get up and never look back. I’m more than thankful and Grateful for this ministry. To this day, they still haven’t forgot about me. I love you all❤️
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Hello. My name is Shirley. I want to thank Grace Ministries for being a big part of me and my children lives. I have known Jan and Kathleen for 3-4 years or more. I met them on the streets of Phillip Hwy when I was sprung out on drugs and didnt know if I would live to see the next day. It was just the right words they told me. The love that they showed me was more than I can explain. I gave myself another chance at life and it was all because of those loving words that was said to me and I have never heard before. I am 2 years and 3 months, clean and sober. I have custody of my kids and I have my own place. If it wasnt for God bringing Grace Ministries into my life, I wouldnt be where im at today. Even though they are helping so many of us women, God continues to bless them because they are helping us. And still too this day, they continue to help me and my children because I have a well made up mind that Im willing to go to any length to stay on the right path. Nothing or noone can lead me back to destruction. Grace Ministries show me that life is more and more precious as long as im doing the right thing. Not only that, they help me emotionally, mentally and physically whether they know that or not. I just want to say I thank you and I love you all.
Grace ministries is one of the ministries or charities I like to support. I know a lot of wayward women who seek help to get their lives back on track and this place does that. They also share Christ's saving message these women and get them involved in 12-step programs as well. One of the few all girls facilities. I highly recommend them.
A wonderful ministry serving women located in Jacksonville. Great support for women who are trying to start a new chapter in life on the right foot. Kathleen is a phenomenal beacon of light to help guide anyone in any situation.
Kathleen is such an incredible woman who has impacted so many women. She gives these ladies the tools they need in mind, body, and spirit so they can start their journey on their wonderful new lives.
It’s amazing what this team of people is doing for these ladies in our community. Keep up the positive impact!
Lost and now found! To have a place where lost women can help each other, support each other and lift each other up is incredible. You will find that this amazing Nonprofit continues the circle of giving, they only ask for what is needed for the women and they are tirelessly in their efforts. Women who walk through this process become your coworkers, friends and the wife next door. Lives are transformed and it starts at Grace Ministry.
Kathleen and Jan were called by God to become HIS special servants to women who had lost all hope. They diligently honored that call and established Grace Ministries of Helping Hands About 13-14 years ago.
They donate their time and love to each woman who will accept their invitation to change their life. They never got or get paid, not even a penny.
Over 650 women are back into the main stream of life because of these two ladies and their untiring efforts to follow God’s call to them.
Grace is a huge success story!!!
For many years this organization has serve hundreds of woman coming out if sex trade, that come here broken, hurt, alone, volunteers and mentors will walk side by side with every single girl staring a new journey in their lives. Grace ministry goes above and beyond society to help these girls to gain their lives back and to do what is need it to help them to do better then before. Grace Ministry has giving me the opportunity to witness for years so many lives been transform by the grace of God and the loving help of everyone in this organization.
My name is Rita, Kathleen at Grace ministries has shown me a new way of life. She has shown me love, compassion and has helped me many times through my struggles. Grace ministries is and awesome organization that I have seen changed many women's lives. When we met on the street she just showed up with gifts from her trunk, shared a prayer with me and at that time I felt the lord through her prayers. My life has never been the same, Thank you Grace ministries of Helping Hands
Awakenings House, Sober Living for Women, is a PROUD PARTNER with Grace Ministry of Helping Hands! The love and faith that Grace Ministry POURS out to other women is beyond measure. Each of the staff and volunteers consistently UPLIFT every woman that they meet, providing essentials to every woman in need and spreading the Gospel of Jesus!
We are thankful for our partnership on the journey of helping others!
Carla Sweeney
Founder/Director
Awakenings House
Kathleen is AWESOME!!! She has a heart of gold, and has provided me with a Christian mentor to walk hand in hand with, growing closer to Christ in this beautiful new journey. She is so supportive, providing resources to help my recovery be a life changing, life altering and lasting* decision. I am so grateful to God for her and her team. I recommend any woman seeking their New Path to give her a call.
The women here want to help! They show us the love of Christ everyday. This nonprofit is a true blessing to women who are hopeless. It's life changing.
I have had the pleasure of witnessing first hand how Grace Ministries has helped so many women. Providing the means and encouragement to navigate through the darkness in the world, and experience the joy and peace of light. I'm so thankful they exist in our community!
Grace ministry has truly helped me see my light at the end of the tunnel. They’ve not only help me with my financial struggles but they also help me grow spiritually. With my mentor provided by grace ministries I have truly grasp a sense of belongingness and faith in Christ the Lord. I am truly thankful for everything they have done for me.
Latosha M.
Grace ministries has helped me so much over the last month. Ms. Kathleen keeps encouraging me with her kind words and inspiration. She didnt give up on me and neither did my mentor Tina she set me up with who is helping me learn about god and the bible for the first time. When I wanted to give up Ms. Kathleen made me realize because of fear in my own head I thought I had to run, the devil didnt get me this time. I went to church for the first time in 25 years and the pastor asked if there was anyone new and ready to let go and let god. I raised my hand so high. Then a miracle happened because of god and these 2 wise women. I know how to pray, I didnt know before. I know that God is with me today and every day. I wanted what these ladies had, now I have it!
A wonderful way to give back two women that are going into a recovery program.
Grace ministry of helping hands strives forward with Jan Miller in our hearts lives and her spirit lives on
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This is a wonderful nonprofit organization that helps many girls throughout Jacksonville ...I am so grateful to be a part help with this service. The women truly grow in the sunlight of the spirit . By becoming sober women and productive in society .
I have had the privilege of working with the ladies of Grace Ministry over the past eighteen months in my position as a case manager in one of Jacksonville's halfway houses. They are tirelessly dedicated to helping the homeless women of our community find housing and programs that can turn their lives around and put them on the road to recovery from drug abuse and alcoholism. They put a firm but loving net of caring over these women, making sure they find jobs and meetings, clothes and meals, sponsors and friends. As I said, it's been a privilege, and I myself have found lifelong friends in the community, women of strength and conviction that I know I can count on.
The team at Grace Ministry are passionate followers of Jesus and spreading the love of God through their ministry to help women and men off the streets. The lives they are changing is a testament to the work and service they continue to do in the community. It's been a blessing to provide their messaging and updates to their supporters and reaching new followers.
Awakenings House has the pleasure to have an amazing partnership with Grace Ministry of Helping Hands ❣ The Grace, Unconditional Love, Compassion, Light and Hope that they spread throughout the community is a true form of being the hands and feet of Jesus! No one woman left in the darkness
Grace Ministry and all the people who help women get off the streets or get in to sober living environments are amazing. Such caring sincere women who want to help. They do so much for our community. They helped me start a better way of living and I truly can't thank them enough. Love you all
There are so many wonderful things that I can say about Grace Ministries but one of the reasons that I am sober today is because of the woman that have helped me in this program. I came from another state with no help or support and no where to go and in less than 24 hours they began to help me on my journey. I secured a safe place to live, a strong network of woman, spiritual guidance, hope and integrity back in my life. I now have the support of life-long relationships from these women who continue to keep intouch with me. God has his hand on this program and I am a better human being for being a part of it. They have also inspired me to become a servant as I continued to do service work in the community and help other young woman just like me. I can't thank them enough. I am truly grateful and love them all!
My name is Kathleen and I am one of the co-founders of Grace Ministry. In memory of my ministry partner, Jan Miller who went home to be with the Lord on June 9, 2018 (Pentecost Sunday), I just want to say that God has been so gracious to she and I both during the last 12 years of serving side by side. The memories of what we have done through Christ Jesus is priceless and has truly left a Kingdom Imprint here on earth. May God continue to do what He has planned for Grace Ministry one day at a time.
Grace ministries has help me on so many levels! I love you all. I’m clean now 2 1/2 years only because you loved me until I learned to love my self! Thank you so much for all your hard work and believing I am worth more
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"Accept the desire of our hearts, O Lord, our God, to lavish care and concern on the weary and suffering members of your body this day. May we anoint them with a compassion that wells up from hearts made joyful by the release you have gained for us from debts and trespasses. We ask this through Christ our Lord."
Roy, this prayer today on the Notre Dame site reminds me so much of Jan and her dedication to her ministry. She picked up those who trespassed against the laws of God and showed love and compassion. She took them to stores and bought them clothing when they had nothing but the clothing on their backs. She fed them when they had nothing to eat. Jan lavished care and concern on the weary and suffering and exposed them to the comfort of Christ’s Words, while also giving them shelter and a new purpose to their lives.
Grace Ministries is being modest proclaiming only “several” success stories. I can attest the ministry has 100s of SUCCESS stories: Ladies who have made the transition from the streets and addictions back into the mainstream.
I believe it is important to note that no one gets paid even a penny. They are all volunteers or more honestly called to this ministry so every dollar received by this ministry is used to further the mission. They work hard, very hard, to BE the hands and feet of our Lord.
You cannot go wrong giving of your dollars or even more importantly your time AND prayers
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Grace Ministries has restored hope to many men and women who have found themselves lost to addictions and have therefore resorted to prostitution and crime to make it from one day to the next. The mentors of Grace have helped these ladies and gentlemen seek new beginnings, to find their way back into lives of self esteem by showing them LOVE and offering guidance in life skills they had forgotten or never had the opportunity to learn.
Grace works with people most of us do not want to be around. Somehow God has given the Grace ministers compassion and Love for these seemingly not so easy to love people.
Importantly, all the work is volunteer. No one is paid. No one does this for the money.
The Earth angels at Grace Ministries have truly help me transition into a healthy life. They truly care, with each person they help; it's a personalized plan put together with love. My son would not have his mother in his life today if helping hands wouldn't have lend me their helping hand. I have honestly been touch by angles. Earth angels at Grace Ministries of helping hands.
The folks with Grace are courageous, faithful, inspiring and radically committed to showing each woman how much God loves her and what value she brings to the world.
I am a result of the work of Grace Ministry. I was homeless, addicted to heavy drugs and living day by day in one of the worst neighborhoods in Jacksonville, FL. My family and the world had written me off as a lost cause. I was hopeless and felt I no longer had anything to live for. I had nothing. That's when Kathleen McDaniel came to me and let me know that God had a different plan for my life. She met me on the block I was buying drugs from and prayed for me. I instantly broke down in tears stunned by the unconditional love shown to me. She convicted my spirit. She told me I had options. I was just a lost soul with a heart so broken that I often felt suicide through overdose was one of my only options left. Because of them intervening into my life about four years ago, I am able to tell a different ending than the despair I felt the day we met. They helped me get into a long-term treatment program where I learned coping skills I didn't have from growing up in dysfunction and was able to get healing from tragic events in my life. They then paid half of my rent at a half-way house so I was able to start paying off my tickets to obtain my license. They even got me a job at Rethreaded, where I regained lost job skills, and made lifetime friendships with women who were also survivors of the sex-trade. I will be 27 in two weeks. I own a nice car and I have a career as a Kitchen Designer. I am building my credit to be able to purchase a house next year. I am in a healthy relationship. But most of all I know God loves me, and has a plan for my life because that one hot summer day, they met me and loved me where I was at. Without them, I know for a fact I would not be alive. So if you are wondering about making a financial contribution to this ministry.. I assure you, every penny goes to tranforming women's lives!! I don't like to talk about my past much, but Grace Ministry will forever have a place in my heart and I forever will feel led to share my testimony to help other women stuck in bondage get helped through this miraculous ministry!!
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Hi! Grace Ministry of Helping Hands is a first-class grassroots organization that does invaluable work in the Jacksonville community and surrounding areas. Kathleen and Jan's purity of heart and desire to do good bleeds through the culture of the organization and affects every aspect of its operations and dedicated volunteers, top-down. The work these two women do to intimately touch and transform the lives of addicts and victims of the sex trade cannot be replaced. I admire them and only hope this organization grows in size and magnitude. Jacksonville needs Grace Ministry of Helping Hands!
A unique mission to an underserved population. Kudos to Kathleen and Jan for seeing the need to be God's love in action to these women.
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I support the mission of Grace Ministry if helping women escape human trafficking, get off the streets and actively recover from issues of drug and alcohol addiction. I have seen first hand and personally the results of their untiring grass roots work with these women and their willingness to go to any length to provide help - from picking women up off the street or exiting jail to let caring safe housing, free of drugs and alcohol, to providing clean clothes, Grace Ministry walks the walk and gets results. It is my honor to support them.
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Grace Ministry of Helping Hands provides a unique and invaluable service to the city of Jacksonville. Their outreach to victims of human trafficking includes helping the women get into 12 step recovery programs along with sober life bing environments. To my knowledge this wonderful Ministry is unique in helping these trafficking victims achieve freedom from the horrible bondage of drugs and alcohol, a key component to their successful return to society. It has been my honor to know the women who are part of this wonderful Ministry.
The unconditional love , prayers & help that Jan, Kathleen & their volunteers offer to the sick & suffering is beyond amazing! They are truly Jesus's hands & feet!
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I have watched Kathleen & Jan help countless women through Grace Ministry. Our broken need more help than our city can provide. Grace provides the love, support , mentoring that so many require to beat the lure of the demons of alcohol, drugs & prostitution!we as Christians are called to help & serve the broken , Grace fills the much needed shoes our city needs! Please vote , donate & let's unite to help our city!
Seeing is believing. I have personally witnessed the hard work of this non profit. Jan. Kathleen and their small but mighty force of volunteers have changed the lives of women who have been in bondage. The positive outcomes from the work of Grace Ministries is remarkable.
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Best non profit in Jax. They "walk the talk". They work 24 by 7., have the most patience, compassion and love for humanity.
Stephanie Patton reviewed Grace Ministry of Helping Hands — 5 star
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There is a multitude of things that I love about this ministry. The willingness they have to answer the call of action to any young woman in need of help is astounding! But it doesn't just stop at the housing for them.. It bleeds into all areas of that woman's life. They counsel these women, support them every step of the way, job training and treatment, helping them to achieve permanent stability. It's amazing and just a great resource to have in your pocket!
In 2015 I came back to Jacksonville after spending 11 months in jail. Grace Ministries supported me not only financially until I could find employment; they bought my work pants and shoes for that first job, provided a spiritual mentor, prayed for me, and allowed me in return to be of service in the ministry. I will forever be grateful for their love and guidance.
I know first hand as a member of a letter writing ministry that Grace Ministries of Helping Hands is in the battlefield fighting addictions and turning lives around. Nurturing women with unconditional care and love is the heart of this ministry and I commend Jan and Kathleen whose hearts are Christ centered and who never give up hope on possibilities.
The ladies of Grace are compassionate, and amazingly unselfish as they give endless hours to help women in need!
Melissa Marie Dye reviewed Grace Ministry of Helping Hands — 5 star
July 13 at 5:22 PM ·
Grace Ministry saved my life I don't know what I would do without them. They gave me hope and finding a place that I can start a new life without having to go back to my old ways of life. Grace Ministries is full of God and love and I'm grateful for ever
My name is Jessica Baker and my experience with grace ministry is totally awesome . They have really played a big part in my life of recovery. These women are extremely a blessing from God.
If they had not come into my life when they did I don't know where I would have been.
Thanking Jesus each and every day for Grace Ministry!
Jerica Motley reviewed Grace Ministry of Helping Hands — 5 star
July 13 at 6:23 PM ·
I am truly blessed to have worked and still work with these amazing ladies! They are so genuine, would give you the shirt off their back. They give people the chance they need when no one else would and guide them onto the better path they need. Im lucky I've got these ladies in my life I wouldn't be where I am today without them! ���
I am so grateful for Miss Kathleen and Grace Ministries I've been a prostitute and a drug addict since the age of 13 and if it wasn't for Miss Kathleen and Grace Ministries following me around and trying to reach out for me for the past two years I wouldn't be sitting here where I am today she suggested I go to recovery live in a halfway house and and do everything that was suggested to me I have my family back in my life if wonderful blessings in 47 days clean this is a wonderful wonderful program and I've never felt so much love I'm so grateful it's program saved my life
Grace ministry is exactly what it's called a ministry that extends the Grace of God to lost hurting women. I was one of those women and through them showing me this undeserving kindness, love and support I found self worth and most importantly a relationship with God.. My life is so much different today (for the better) and I thank God and Grace Ministry for that
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I was in jail so worried I would be back on the streets again homeless when I got put. They picked me up from jail let me go to church with them and then took me to a safe structured environment where they paid my rent for 3 months.. I'm just one of the very many lost girls they do this for !!! True women of God who devote there entire lives to helping others.
I have not been a "beneficiary" of this amazing organization but I know the work they are doing. I've donated in the past and I know Kathleen. She has worked tirelessly and given her ALL to make the ministry what it has become. Regardless of whether I was a beneficiary of the services and/or charity, we should all be thankful this organization is here, in our community. Bless you all and a special
Although I am the CEO of a much larger non-profit in another state, I love supporting Grace Ministries on a regular basis! This grassroots organization takes its ministry to the streets & to those who need them most! They are helping women (probably some men also) find help, find God, and get off the streets! An amazing organization!
Hi! God is awesome! Grace Ministries of Helping Hands has most definitely made a major impact on my life. The women of this organization go far and beyond to help women who were once lost in the grip of addiction. What I truly admire the most is how they connect the women they help with Spiritual Advisors. Thanks Grace Ministries for all the support you give me! This organization is a blessing to many.
Grace Ministries is the best organization that helped me turn my life around and made me the person I am today. Years ago when I was all messed up, Grace Ministries stepped in and showed me more love than I could have imagined. They told me how much God loved me and that they will be by my side every step of the way. Till this day, their word remains the same. I've started at the bottom with them and I'm rising up to the top. Everytime I felt like giving up, Grace showed their helping hand. It wasn't easy giving up a lifestyle that I thought I could get use too, but Grace words always remind me of who I am now, then what I was back then. I love each and everyone of Grace Ministries Helping Hands. May God bless them to keep this organization going. Their word alone can change many lives and I'm a living witness.
Grace ministry was sent truely from God into my life to rescue me. I was a prostitute and crack addict, homeless on Philips Highway. After they have met me, I am clean off drugs and a retail manager for Rethreaded. They even got me the connection to work at the nonprofit! They loved me through every relapse unconditionally and are still my best support. Kathleen and Jan are like Mamas to me. I love them and still to this day praise Jesus for sending them to me.
I had the pleasure of working with this ministry over the past couple of months and I have to say these people are the real deal. I've never met a more selfless group of people whose only purpose is to serve those who are trapped and hurting. It was truly amazing watching them work. They are incredibly compassionate and fearless.
This unique ministry has helped so many women in a variety of ways. Giving women back their dignity is providing them a better future. It also is a vehicle for women volunteering to help other women. Kathleen and Jan are dynamos.
This ministry is a selfless charity that truly preaches the Good News of Jesus Christ to the lost and forgotten.
This wonderful group reached out to my daughter when she was at her lowest point in a female prison. They wrote letters to her and helped her with a bus ticket upon her release and with housing/job assistance once she arrived into town. Today my daughter is a productive member of the community, working in a law office, playing sports such as softball and kickball in her spare time. Most importantly Grace Ministry helped my husband and I as much as our daughter by lifting her up and helping her to mature and become the beautiful person that we thought we had lost.
This Ministry truly cares about the whole individual and getting them to a point in life that assists them in learning what life is all. Aiding and guiding the individual in all facets of life and giving them a new beginning. Assisting them step by step, and helping them understand their worth in being the person they were born to be, all with a faith based ministry.
These folks are out there doing difficult direct work with our community's most forgotten members bringing hope!! The best part is- they really have a true love for others and for God.
This is an amazing ministry, helping those who are often forgotten. To be able to help these women become productive members of society is a challenge and yet Grace Ministries continues their mission and perseverance to give these women another chance at life.
I have been fortunate to attend a few fundraisers and meet the Directors and see their genuine works in action. I've met and looked into the eyes of some of the women changed by Grace! Also I've had them step in w Priority a loved one who needed Grace when others could not reach her. Such a wonderful ministry, calling and follow through....diligence and hearts overflowing!!!! They are in it for the long haul!
Great group that works tirelessly to assist those with a variety of needs. Totally servant hearted and devoted to strengthening the communities around them.
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I believe deeply in the work Grace Ministry is doing in our city! I have seen the love, prayers & commitment Jan & Kathleen have for the women! Many of Kathleen's days are full until bedtime, since she works full time beside Grace Ministry! The human trafficking of the children & women of our city is astonishing! I challenge everyone to ride down Phillips Highway , the majority of folks you will see are possible clients....
I have seen first hand what this wonderful does on a daily basis. Ministry in the streets, jail, churches and even in their workplace. To see and hear the testimony of the men and women set free is beyond words. Kathleen and Jan are wonderful women of God who love unconditionally. Bless this Ministry!!
Helping Hand is a great minister of hope to people in need.. Giving an opportunity on a brand new start ♡ to the ones that needed the most.
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A beautiful example of changing women's lives by offering them hope and a new life. Truly making a difference in our community. A story of Love, Sacrifice, Deliverance and God's grace!
Grace Ministry of Helping Hands is truly a God send! Feel confident that your dollars are directly impacting the women they serve!
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These folks go into the dark places that not many are willing to go! I suppose them whole heatedly and support their efforts.
Great nonprofit!!! Their service to the community saves lives and brings people out from the darkness into recovery!
A ministry dedicated to helping women overcome adversity and find lasting success and peace with God as their foundation.
Grace Ministries does wonderful work and has helped so many women recover from drugs and alcohol and gain a new life.
I have struggled with addiction for years...when I was ready to change Grace was there for me. Someone wrote me the whole time I was incarcerated and when I got our they helped me get clothes and other things I needed to start working. Now I still have my job, I'm clean and sober and I know that if I need anything their hand will be there.
They do wonderful work loving the unlovable in Jacksonville. Kathleens love for God shows through in her love for others.
Kathleen McDaniel is a longtime friend and she serves this ministry with God's love. She is a beacon of hope for many in need.
An amazing and heart felt ministry that provides opportunities for women to heal and release the grasp that drugs, alcohol and sex trade has on their life. Kathleen McDaniel is a true inspiration and pure Amazing Grace to so many ladies. She is truly making a difference in our community.
Grace Ministry will make a difference in a woman's life and may save her from a lifetime of sorrow and despair. Please join in supporting this group!
We have great love and respect for this ministry and the life-saving work they do. My organization has proudly partnered with GMoHH on several occasions and we look forward to opportunities to do so again in the future. What a passion and love for those who others would likely look past or not view as worthy of genuine love. Thank you Grace Ministry for your awesome labor of love!! - George Davis, Sr. Pastor of Impact Church
I met jan and Kathleen hearing testimony upon testimony from different ladies who thru their personal intervention are no longer in prostitution off the streets some have even been sent to them from the local police department they even have a lady who now has finished her degree . This is one ministry that continues to produce great results in human trafficking .
Because of GM, I began hosting letter writing volunteers, writing to women arrested for prostitution, giving them courage and hope to change directions, encouraging them to trust God and requesting dialogue through letters. We hope it helps them, and it certainly blesses us.
Truly a group of women that have huge hearts in hopes of changing the lives of these gals. I have heard their stories and have watched their new lives evolve.
This ministry has changed my life. The women stick by me through thick and thin as I push on to reach my potential. The founders are incredible examples of God's unconditional love, grace, ad mercy. I don't know what my life would be like today if this ministry hadn't been God's helping hands. I am so blessed and so grateful. I pray they can continue to help put the hands of struggling women into God's hands. So many lives saved. So many more to still save. Grace Ministry of Helping Hands does just that. Please support their efforts.
I am a volunteer for Grace ministries and have seen the lives change through what we do. I have many stories to tell but they all pretty much add up to that there are women out living wherever they can, most are not safe by any means. And do unspeakable things because of drugs or alcohal. I am always amazed how just offering a cold water and bag of hygiene products changes their demeaner. Ones who are so hardened by what they go through daily when we come and offer them a hope and wrap our arms around them remind them that they are precious and a treasure they soften and you can tell your no longer speaking to the addict but to their soul. They are someones daughter, sisiter, and sometimes mother. If you want to know your gifts are going to make a difference in the lives of women who are bound and chained by addiction then this is the way to do it. Please support what Grace Ministry of Helping Hands is doing in the streets of Jacksonville. It takes money and currently there are 9 women we are in the rehabilitation phases with. They are no longer on the street, but getting the help to get out of the pit and be able to give back one day. I look forward to seeing how this ministy grows into possibly having its own rehabilitation facilities and is able to help more women at a time. In the mean time we will always stop for the one.
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I was starting out as a volunteer to get training to help women in other sides of town. The first time I went out onto Phillips Hwy with Kathleen and her team we met these two women (we met others but theses two will stay in my heart forever) Savannah who has a family history of drug abuse. She just kept telling us over and over she didn't know that people cared and loved the way that Grace Ministries shows love. We saw her through the hospital and into Rehab services. And the most heartbreaking was Darcel who while talking with her I asked if she had any children she said " yes a daughter, three years old." I asked her name and she told me Honesty Love, My heart broke for her. You see the way I saw it was she had never known a HONEST LOVE. She lived a life where it was always what can you do for me or How am I gonna get mine or just being abused. SHE BIRTHED her own HONEST LOVE. I pray for them both to this day.
I just saw your segment on TV about the consignment shop. Thank you for doing what you do. I have tons of clothes (some of which still have the price tag hanging from them....like we all do) but I've always known that FiFi's is upscale and my stuff came from WalMart so I'd never grace your presence with those. But I did want to thank you for what you're doing and to let you know that I DO take my WalMart things to Angel Aid Thrift Store. Sorry to have seen our Humane Society Thrift Store close down. Blessing to all of you who work so hard to make women find their self worth.
I was on the streets of Jacksonville feeling very hopeless. I was a slave to heroin and cocaine, shooting up several times a day, selling my soul for it. Kathleen McDaniel and others continuously reached out over the months giving a goody bag, prayer and offering a better life. The third time we met just seeing this Godly woman convicted my spirit. I decided to get their help. She drove me to and picked me up from detox. They paid my way in a sober living house, even got me an interview that landed me a job within two weeks. Kathleen visits me weekly and always brings me nice clothes and lifts my spirits, giving me confidence to get another part time job to be self sufficient. Her story also gave me the courage to follow through with celebrating my first full month in sobriety!! She even picked out a very hands on sponsor who picks me up for church!! Grace Ministry changed my life!!
The Adulterous Woman in John Chapter 8:
"The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst they said to him, "Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery. Now in the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?"
"This they said to test him, that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground."
Have you ever wondered what Jesus was writing on the ground? Scripture never divulges this information because it isn't important. Jesus was using this distraction waiting to hear from his Father because he only said what the Father told him he should say.
After admonishing the scribes and Pharisees, Jesus stood up and said to her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?" She said, "No one, Lord." And Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no more."
This is the voice and mission of Grace Ministry, to let these women know that Jesus loves and forgives them and to help rescue them from the trapped life they are living. The bible does not tell of the successful life the adulterous woman went on to live but I bet she had a real positive impact on the world after her encounter. Grace Ministry offers this opportunity to every woman they touch and to do and be like Jesus is the ultimate lifework.
I see first hand what Grace Ministry is doing in our city. The women are being met on the streets and in the jails and being helped. We do this by taking them from one resource to another and being their contact and advocate thru each step of the way. This ministry takes seriously their mission to help women change their lives but they are never alone while doing this. From the street to living lives of purpose and well being, women are being met and encouraged.
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Grace is impacting the lives of women in Jacksonville on a daily basis, whether we are out on the streets talking with women, or in the jail visiting, or helping with housing or getting a job, or taking to a meeting or church. These women need alot of help and our hope is that we can support them in anyway that we possibly can. The needs are great and the supply of women on the street who need our help is endless.
Grace Ministry is a wonderful organization of compassionate, loving people who truly care about their fellow human being. They take time out of their daily lives to help save others from a life of destruction. There are a lot of people, whom without Grace Ministries, would be living without any hope for any kind of a better life. These people live on the streets. They're sad, helpless and hopeless, struggling with various types of addictions. The people of Grace go to the streets weekly, search these people out, and let them know that God loves them and that he hasn't given up on them. They give them care packages and let them know there are options for them other than the street. When Grace's help is accepted, they are there for those people for the entire ride. This includes getting them into rehab, visiting/writing them in jail if that is the case, going to court, speaking on their behalf, helping them in recovery, giving them rides to various places; meetings, church, etc. And that's just a short list of the many ways this ministry is SAVING LIVES. God is good and He is working through Grace Ministry of Helping Hands.
This Christian missionary is filling a space in our society that is void of care in our community. There are persons of the sex trade who are returned to the streets from jails with no caring person or organization to help them to find their way to a responsible life. When they are released with no money, clothes or any way to support themselves they have no choice but to return to their old habits in order to survive.
Grace Ministry will actually pick them up and find a place for them to live and at the same time continue to work with them to find the kind of employment that will support a decent lifestyle which would include education, social and job skills. They make sure they have food and anything else they need to as they are starting a new life.
All the loving people involved in this mission take no salary or any other compensation, as of a matter of fact other than donations, much money comes out of their own pocket so of course they can only so much. All money is directed to the care of these victims. Their success rate is 98% because these persons are at a point in their lives that they want relief from their previous lifestyle and Grace Ministry will work with them one on one until they can live on their own merit.
I volunteered to help Grace Ministry of Helping Hands with their street ministry one Sunday afternoon. That experience proved to be the beginning of a very valuable relationship that is still going strong more than two years later. I met a woman who was an alcoholic living on the streets with no one to turn to who cared about her. Grace Ministry told her they would be with her every step of the way if she was ready to receive their help. Well, she was and they did! Grace Ministry orchestrated getting her into detox and then a residential treatment program. She has nearly completed the recovery program, and is employed at a local nonprofit organization. Grace Ministry continues to be the main support systems in her life and they are currently assisting her in finding a place to live. It has been a long and difficult journey, but the outpouring of love and support from the founders and volunteers of Grace Ministry of Helping Hands gave her the hope she needed, lightened the load and made the journey worth taking.
Grace ministry is the most hands on, one on one ministry
You can learn not only about the yourself but also at the same time be selfless
About wanting to help others. Supporting this ministry is a great way to be Christ's hands and feet. If you can't volunteer by helping those women go out,
Then for sure support financially and prayerfully. Thanks to those women that go
And pray for those women on the street, they give them hope! So thankful those women
Sacrifice themselves and go out to be Christ hands and feet to this hurting world.
Grace Ministry of Helping Hands was started when God planted the vision of ministry in the hearts of Jan Miller and Kathleen McDaniel. It has grown into the strong and far reaching ministry it is today through the faithfulness and love of these two ladies.
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This organization is a powerful movement here in Jacksonville; helping many in an effective and caring way!
Stefano~
This charity was started by a few women with grateful hearts who were burdened to help the women who most people in our society see as prostitutes. We've all seen the girls who walk Phillips Highway.Their stories are all different yet there is a common thread of need that Grace Ministries had recognized and responded to. Faithfully these gals are on Phillps almost every Sunday afternoon giving these women love, support, lifelines for drug rehab,letters of support when they are in jail, and ultimately hope that they can live lives of dignity and purpose. I am humbled and inspired by their willingness to risk their lives going into some of our cities most drug/crime infested places to help the women that are so lost.
Grace Ministries was started by a friend who had been very ill and as she was recuperating she promised God that she would help others. She, along with a few others, began ministering to local women on the streets, taking them into her confidence. They extended help in many ways but ultimately provided hope and strength to change their lives. Grace Ministries needs monetary help to provide these ladies personal items, food, lodging and counselors to help with their plight . . .frequently drugs. Our ladies golf group have donated monies in the past and I pray that our group will vote to do so again. Think about it this way: by bringing these women off the streets, Grace Ministries may be saving their lives (i.e., sexually transmitted disease), saving not only themselves but their family and/or children as well. In addition, helping these women saves our city money by eliminating crimes/drugs usually associated with these cases.
I know , from Jan Miller, a friend of mine, a golfing buddy , to be exact, that many "lost women" have benefited greatly from this ministry. Not only have some of the women obtained jobs and truly improved their lives ,but they feel worthwhile, at last, when otherwise they would probably still be on the streets of Jacksonville. These women , at last feel loved.
Jan has given so much to our community through her efforts to help others. She asked for God to "send her where she was needed". She responded.
I think the ladies are doing an excellent job & see that everything is covered in prayer. So many lives have been changed & will continue to chane because of the blessed ministry.
Grace ministries touches the lives of woman who live on the streets. They are sad, lonely, frightened and hate their life and themselves. This ministry shares hope that there is another way out. Those involved in this ministry give so much of themselves not only through giving of their time, but financially as well. It is a powerful ministry that deserves all the financial support they can get to keep it running and help to continue touch the lives of many unfortunate woman.
Grace Ministries is not just a non-profit. This is a group of women who live out the Great Commsion and show love to those in Northeast Florida who need it the most. These women minister out of the grace that has been extended so freely given to them. The impact that is being made is truly life changing for so many, including myself. The love can be tangibly felt by the women, children and sometimes the men that are ministered to. This Love can be felt in a hug, smile, bag of hygiene products, ham and cheese sandwich and a cold bottle of water given during street ministry. Tangible needs are met as a way to minister to the soul. Grace Ministries continues to build by letter writing and visiting women in jail. If a women decides to make a life change, resources are contacted and and a new life is no longer a dream but a reality. Grace ministties is there to support and encourage women for every step along the way to sobriety and a new life found in Christ. This is not a Monday through Friday operation. The founders and volunteers tirelessly pour their lives into Grace Minisitries. There is hope for Jacksonville for so many because of the relentless hours that Grace Ministires has poured into the lives that others see as hopeless.
A friend in our Bible study invited me to volunteer with Grace Ministries. They minister to homeless women, many of them prostitutes/drug addicts. They share the good news of love of Jesus Christ with these women. Also they will offer the ladies a ride to rehab. They also visit the women that are incarcerated. If you really want to see Jesus in action, you should consider becoming involved in this ministry. Life changing!
I was first introduced to Grace Ministry through one of the founders, I could see that she was a very special lady and I wanted to get to know her. I began to explore the ministry that she claimed was changing lives, pulling women out of prostitution, helping them to combat drug addiction and alcoholism and I wanted to be a part of that ministry. I began asking around and found that my gifts could be used to further the mission so I offered to help and have since volunteered and been a part of the advisory committee. I am seeing first hand how Grace Ministry is a ministry of HOPE, love and kindness! I love this ministry!
Grace Ministries provided our group an opportunity to write letters to women in prison and share with them hope. I was happy to do so, especially after hearing the personal testimonies. If you have ever known someone personally incarcerated, you know the encouragement that a simple letter can bring.
I know that these women are working hard to help these prostitutes in their own city to become better people.
This non-profit was formed out of a love for fellow human beings who had lost their way along the path. We reach out to women who are enslaved by drugs and prostitution. We pray with and for them, we attempt to meet their immediate needs. We have a jail/prison ministry where we reach out to form a relationship to let them know we are going to love them through this, to locate re-hab assistance once they are released and housing once they have completed their program. We have mentors who work with these ladies to assist them in securing employment, long term housing, reunification with children/families and spiritual guidance. It is so rewarding seeing these women become productive and healthy again.
I was so inspiried by the work of this non-profit that i made time in my schedule to join them in their work. The women and lives they have impacted stand as a real tribute to the love of Christ and our Lord. Their continued outreach to women who are entrapped and enslaved in drugs and prostitution in a very damaging circle of hopelessness. Grace Ministries shines a light of hope and help for those looking to get out of this cycle. They provide the help, mentorship and friendship of unconditional love for these ladies that starts them on their new path to rehab and a new life. Their success stories bring such joy to my heart and so glad to be part of doing the Lord's work.
This organization does an excellent job with helping women to transform their lives. Jan Miller and her helpers go out of their way to find housing, jobs and rehab for them. The testimonies I have heard from some of the women prove that Grace Ministry of Helping Hands has a vital place in our community.
Grace Ministries is making a real difference to the people who live near the north end of Philips Highway in Jacksonville, Florida. Their commitment to holistic healing found not only through partnering with various city services, but primarily though the healing power of Jesus Christ is changing this community one life at a time. The leaders and volunteers with Grace Ministries are living the incarnation by going to the "least of these" and being the hands and feet of Jesus.
Thank God for people like Jan M. for listening to the Holy Spirit, whom has given her a heart to help people forever change their lives.
Grace Ministry of Helping Hands does exactly what the name says. The ministry reaches people with the Grace and Forgiveness of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ and our volunteers are the Helping Hands that reaches out to those that need to get off the streets, clean, clothes, food & jobs but most important of all, experience the true Love and Forgiveness of God.
Please pray about helping Grace Ministries of Helping Hands. This is such a wonderful ministry and it is absolutely life changing. If you do not have someone in your family that needs this type of ministry, you probably know of someone who does. Your financial support and any time you can volunteer is greatly appreciated. Please get involved. God Bless You!
I have had the opportunity to interact with several individuals who have benefited from this minstry. From witnessing baptisms to hearing testimonies of women who have turned their lives around, Grace Ministries is changing lives one woman at a time. We are also seeing families blessed by this ministry, from Christmas blessings made possible by partnerships with the ministry to meeting daily needs of personal items and a warm safe place to sleep. Grace Ministries and its' volunteers strive to meet the needs of those individuals who desire to make a change in the direction of their paths. I have traveled down highways frequented by prostitutes and prayed alongside the volunteers when willing woman are identified and receptive. Distributing stockings to children at Christmas and providing a safe environment for celebrating the holidays and understanding the real meaning for the season has been a blessing to me as a volunteer and to the many families touched by the willing hands of Grace Ministry volunteers.