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S3: You're about to hear about a ministry in Lafayette. It's called restore 634, and you're not going to hear it from me. You're going to hear it from the founder and executive director. Her name is Donna Dean, and she joins us now on mornings with Tom and Toby. Good morning Donna.
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S4: Good morning, and thank you all so much for letting us come and tell you about the ministry.
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S3: Well, I'm excited about just the little cursory glance that I did to just find out a little bit more about you. What you do is so needed here in the area, and I'm so glad that God has called you to this and has you really influencing the lives of those women that desperately need it. Tell us just a little bit about the organization.
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S4: It's a ministry. We say it's a discipleship home. It is. And that's our goal, is to find women who have formerly been incarcerated. Oftentimes, I did a Bible study on Wednesdays in the local jail, Walker County Jail. And so that gives us an opportunity to go in and minister to ladies and find women who are just ready. They're ready for a change. They're tired of living, um, lives of incarceration and drug addiction. And they want to do something different. And those who want to do it with Christ, who are ready to be discipled, they we ask them to fill out an application if they're interested. Many times, their court order, the Walker County has been wonderful about if they want help and they want to do life in a different way, and they want faith based, then they allow us to partner with them and they can say they want to be they agree to be court ordered, and then the court allows them instead of doing their term, they're doing their jail time. They're able to come and stay with us. And sometimes they're ordered for nine months that our program is 12 months. And they'll say, that's okay. I want to do the 12 months, and I really need this change. And so we do recovery. But our main goal is discipleship. So we have a community of believers that come in and from a holistic perspective, we come in and we teach about finances, parenting, job readiness. We teach Bible studies, and we go after the whole woman. And a lot of times it's trauma that's caused all of this. For a woman to lose everything, to lose her children and her home, her health, every relationship. She's usually trying to numb and get away from something. And so we try to work with her. On how did we get to this point?
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S3: Okay, you're hearing the voice of Donna Dean. She's the founder and executive director of restore 634 and, uh, let me just ask you this. I mean, it sounds like a beautiful place for a woman who's definitely in an area of need. We'll just say it that way. Uh, to really find hope and healing in the loving arms of Christ through what you do there. But just tell us a little bit about maybe some of the women, somebody who's really impacted and benefited from the ministry at restore.
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S4: 634 um, this morning, I spent the night last night here because we have somebody here 24 over seven with the ladies. And so it was my turn last night. And this morning, um, one of the ladies who when we got her, she was incarcerated and homeless before that and has been here, she's about to graduate, and she, um, I was nervous, and I was she was like, how nervous are you really nervous about speaking? And I said, yeah. And I was starting to tell her something and I stumbled over everything I said. I said, I'm going to mess. I said, oh my goodness, I'm going to mess up. She said, can I just pray for you right now? And so she stopped and prayed for me. And so what? We've been modeling for her. She turned around and did for me. She's working. She's going to school. Um. She is. Last night, I watched her stand up in front of our church and sing and help. Played singing at our church, so it has been an absolute joy to watch her thrive.
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S3: Well, that is a beautiful story and a beautiful testimony to what you're doing. It's not just information, it's life application that they can take those scriptural principles that you've been speaking into their life and then turn around and bless you on the other side. That truly is beautiful. You're hearing the voice of Donna Dean. She's the founder and executive director of Restore. 634 we're learning about this ministry to women, an important ministry to women. Now, you're based in Walker County in Lafayette, but we've also learned that you don't have to be in Walker County to take advantage of all that. Restore 634 has offered. Can you tell us a little bit about that, Donna?
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S4: Yes, sir. We we can work with other counties if we've had ladies in the past that if she had, um, was had an issue in Hamilton County and then also Walker County, they'll do an interstate compact and let her come and do her time with us and come into our program. And the great thing about the people that have donated to this ministry and made it possible, we are able to serve these ladies at no cost. When they come in, they, um, we give them a home, we give them shelter, food, remember word. We help take them to doctor's visits. Their health is usually wrecked because there have been homeless, addicted to drugs. And, um, it's hard to minister to the soul if your body is in extreme pain and you're not healthy. And so we go after the whole person. And so we're able to help get them to doctor's appointments and get them and their temple, their body that God's given them, and a healthier place as well. So we do get to serve we. There was nothing in Walker County. So that's why we are in Walker County. And we wanted that to be an option. But we will serve people from other counties.
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S5: Okay.
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S3: That's wonderful. You're hearing the voice of Donna Dean with, uh, this beautiful ministry called restore 634. And, uh, Donna, let me ask you this. You've got an event coming up, and it's called Love Restores, where people can learn a little bit more about the ministry and the things that you offer. Tell us a little bit about that event.
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S4: Okay. That is, um, going to be a concert with Steve McWhorter. Uh, he sings come, Jesus, come if you want to check him out. If you go on line, you can hear some of his music. He's very powerful testimony. He was a meth addict and God came after him. He said he hated God and, uh, Jesus. And he. No one could even talk to him about the Lord. That God was relentless with him and came after him. So you'll get to hear his testimony and worship with him. He's very powerful testimony. And so that's going to be on February the 9th. Uh, the time is 634. We had to play on that.
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S6: Uh, what's perfect.
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S4: Is at Van Church at the Epic Center, and we would just love the tickets. You can get either one ticket. You know, the tickets are $50 a person or $350 for a table of eight. So we would love to sell this out. Uh, we're not there yet, but we're getting close, so we would love for you to get it for people to go online and get tickets. And you can go online to restore 634.com. And there's a tab that says Love Restores when you go there. So click on Love Restores and.
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S7: I'll give you all the information that you need. And you can buy your tickets online.