Spring
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M a ry ’s S o n g R e s t o r a t i o n
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And Mary said, “I am bursting with God-news:I am dancing the song of my Savior-God. God took one look at me, and look what happened -I am the most fortunate woman on earth! Luke 1:46-47
Mary ’s Song R e s t o r a t i o n
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Many women are trapped in a world of hopelessness, held in the bondage of drug and alcohol addiction, resulting in an endless nightmare of low self esteem and self-destruction. Mary’s Song Restoration Center for Women offers them an opportunity to permanently change their lives by showing them love and a future full of hope. Mary’s Song is a non-profit organization that relies entirely on the generous donation, funding, and volunteer efforts of both individuals and organizations throughout our community. It is our belief of that community involvement and support is essential to recovery and is necessary in providing services that address the specific needs of the communities involved. For more information you can call and speak with our director, Debra McNabb at 504-606-9684.
MARY’S SONG CELEBRATING FOUR YEARS! By Pastor Parris Bailey
"Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection" Heb. 11:35 The Bible is full of women being given a second chance. They become active in the ministry, active in their families and careers. If you haven't figured it out yet, us women play a vital role in the body of Christ and their family! Growing up in a non-Christian home and receiving The Lord in my teens I needed some strong role models to follow. Thank God the Bible was full of them, all telling me their stories, struggles and victories. Thank God we too can be given a second chance or many chances. We are celebrating 4 years at MARY’S SONG RESTORATION CENTER! What a miracle! Some of you may have grown up in a environment that women were treated as second class or looked over. Some of you might have been in a church where the women could only teach in Sunday School and had no active women's ministry. Or even worse have been abused or counseled by men who mistreated you or gave you ungodly counsel. Thanks be unto God that the Bible shows us how to be true women of God! Many, many times I have shared my own personal experiences as a young mother of 3 boys at the kitchen sink finding myself "caught up in my own world of depression and being overwhelmed". God begin to speak to me out of the book of Esther that day (Thank God He gave me the hunger to read His word!) and said, "and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?" (Esther 4:14) This became the turning point in my life. I needed to put off those old grave clothes once and for all and grab a hold of God just like Esther did. He used Esther even with all of her weaknesses, and inabilities just like he used Ruth, Rahab, Sarah -- and I could keep going! Don't you see everything that you have gone through in life, will be used as your testimony to His provision of mercy and grace! As we continue to graduate more and more girls we are excited to see them come visit us over time and they are experiencing restoration in their families, their lives and their children. It isn't all for naught. Who knows, you might be like the Widow of Nain who was at the right place to meet Jesus. He can make the dead things come alive! Will you allow yourself to meet with Christ? Yes, we are called for SUCH A TIME AS THIS! We love you all! ●
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You don’t have to go to a salon to improve your skin. You can have radiant healthy skin with Mary’s Song Organic Products at a Spa Party. So gather your girlfriends together and join us for some fun. You can even earn FREE products for hosting a party! Contact Debra or Pam
(504) 822-1341 maryssong@victoryfellowship.net
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arrived at Mary’s Song on June 8, 2012 very broke down and bruised from mental and physically torment. I had previously been kicked out of another rehab facility due to my rebellious and selfdestructive behavior. I felt I had no hope for life or a future and I disassociated with everyone I came in contact with. I spent my entire life experiencing suicidal tendencies one which almost took me out was an overdose that stopped my path to hell. I knew
KELLY MOSLEY that Jesus spared my life when I gained consciousness in the I.C.U. My mother was cleaning a house one day praying that God would help me and show her what to do, she knocked down a stack of papers; well the Holy Spirit did. The pamphlet she picked up was from Mary’s Song and I only had one week to decide if I was going back to another rehab. I decided to come to Mary’s Song and while worshipping one day God showed me a door and gave me Revelation 3:20
Look! I stand at the door and knock. If you hear my voice and open the door. I will come in, and we will share a meal together as friends. He completely changed my life and my heart that day when I accepted His invitation to salvation and it’s been one life changing experience after another. I’m no longer that dead girl walking, but a new creation, alive, breathing, and burning for more of my redeemer to Him be the Glory and Honor forever, Amen. •
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was raised in a home that didn’t know the Lord. I went to a Catholic Church sometimes with my grandmother, but I always thought about God as being something far away. If He was real, I thought He was way too big to be concerned with me. My parents were caught in a life of addiction, hurts, and everything else that goes along with that life style. Being in this type of environment never gave me a sense of security and safety. I never felt loved or accepted, and I became very hard and angry. By age twelve I was bound in an addiction to self-harm drugs, and lust I became sexually promiscuous just trying to fill the hole in my heart and find satisfaction. The only comfort and safety I found was in the walls I put up that kept me caged inside left alone. The lies of Satan defined who I was and what I did. My mother and I started going to a Christian Church, and I began to feel the presence of God for the first time. In His presence, I started to experience a pure love that I always craved. I went to Mercy Ministries in 2009 and received a revelation of God’s love and mercy, but no matter how hard I tried to do good and be a godly women I fell short. So I believed the lie again that God couldn’t love someone like me, and I went back to all my old comforts, I was bound in my sins and I drank of all those polluted fountains until I was almost to the point of death (John 4:13-14) Jesus answered and said to her , “whoever drinks from the fountains of this world will thirst again. But whoever drinks of the water that I give shall never thirst again. But the
water that I shall give him become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.” I was at my bottom, and I knew that there was nothing I could do to clean up the mess I made. In my desperation I cried out to God and He heard my cry. When I arrived at Mary’s Song I was very angry at God because I felt like He failed me and didn’t want me because of all the bad stuff I did, but He began to soften my heart with His unconditional agape love. (Ezekial 11:19-20) Then, I will give them one new heart, and I will put a new spirit within them, and take the stony heart out of their flesh, and give them a heart of flesh, that they may walk in my walk in the statutes and keep my judgments and do them; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God. He told me that He loved me because I’m His daughter, and He chose me before the foundations of the earth. He showed me that all have sinned and have fallen short of the glory of God, but it is by His grace through Christ’s blood being shed on the cross. So I don’t have to live in condemnation and judgment anymore. He began to replace all the lies of Satan, and He replaced them with His truth. Isaiah 62 for Zion’s sake I will not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s save I will not rest, until her righteousness goes forth like the dawn, and her salvation as a lamp that burns. The gentiles shall see your righteousness, and the kings your glory. You shall be called by a new name, which the mouth of the Lord will name. You shall also be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in
the hand of your God. You shall no longer be termed forsaken, nor shall your land any more be termed desolate; But you shall be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; For the Lord delights in you, and your land shall be married. For as a young man marries a virgin, so shall your sons marry you; and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you. He went to the deep places in my soul that were wounded and healed me. I am now set free from the law of sin and death. Even when I turned my back on Him in my shame, He never left me. When I was faithless, He was still faithful. His grace kept me through it all and changed my hearts desires to yield my will to Him and answer the call. (Matthew 10:38-39) And he who does not take up his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for my sake will find it (Psalm 37:4) Delight yourself in the Lord, and He shall give you the desires of your heart. My delight is now being found in His beauty. I have finally found where I belong and what I was created for. His love and His glory! Like many was forgiven much and loved much, I want to waste my life on Him and be a light to women and children bound in shame and confusion. I’m so excited to start Bethesda Bible College and be a part of what God is doing at Mary’s Song and Victory Fellowship. •
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Hope Fletcher
Rachel Galaini
Rachel and Hope have graduated from all 3 phases and are now serving as members of our staff. Welcome aboard ladies!
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Bursting Forth!
Each month we send the ladies to learn computer skills that will equip them to re-enter the work force.
Mary’s Song
Banquet 2013 Save the Date
October 10
Arbor Room at Popp Fountain in city Park, New Orleans
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