As of February 2020, I have been blessed to serve as the Executive Director of Green Country Adult & Teen Challenge. For many years, I was hopelessly bound by an addiction to heroin, which led me to places I swore I would never go. In 2009, after losing everything that mattered to me, I found myself facing several years in prison. But God, in His mercy, strategically placed someone in my life who had graduated from a program called Teen Challenge. They said, “Stephanie, the only way you will ever find the peace you’re so desperately searching for is if you go to this program and surrender your life to Jesus Christ.”

I entered Adult & Teen Challenge in July 2009, and from the moment I walked through the door, God met me and began radically transforming my life. Six months into the program, He gave me a vision one night—a vision of running an adult women's center. That night, I knew I was being called into full-time ministry to help other women who were walking through the same darkness I had once experienced.

My favorite part of this ministry is watching the Lord take broken women and turn them into trophies of grace. I cherish the one-on-one moments where I get to see lives changed by a single encounter with God. My heart's desire is for Green Country Adult & Teen Challenge to grow and become a true safe haven for women in need.

Because we are a smaller center, we have the opportunity to spend more personal time with each woman who comes through our doors. My prayer is that every woman who walks in would immediately feel the love of Jesus Christ and experience total freedom from the bondage that once held them captive—just like I did when I came to Adult & Teen Challenge.