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Heroin Addiction Halted; Freed and Bringing Change Locally & Internationally
I woke up that next day, and the day after that and on and on, and every bit of sickness that I normally had was totally gone and not one bit of withdrawal at all. The obsession and the thought to do drugs was totally lifted from my life.
By Justin Buckels For Jubilee News (Washington, PA) I got involved in drugs when I was about 12 years old. By the age of 17, I was on heroin, and by 18, I was injecting heroin. I made it through high school; I went to college and got my degree and worked as an occupational therapist in the medical field making great money. But it was catching up with me big time and things needed to change. We moved from Burgettstown to Washington, PA, I remember my parents had talked about Central Assembly of God and I started to go to church on my own. I was sick of being on drugs and I would wake up every morning sick and in withdrawal and would have to go and get more. It was ter-
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rible. There was an altar call and I gave my life to Jesus and became addicted to Jesus while still being addicted to drugs! I never missed church. I was 28 and the year was 2015 when an evangelist came. His name was Jonathan Shuttlesworth. There was an older lady there that tapped me on the back that first night of a seven-day revival and said: “God told me to tell you that He’s going to do something good in your life.” I thought to myself: “Oh, that’s nice.” I didn’t think much of it. But from the first night, he talked about the Lord healing people from drug addiction and how he had seen many people delivered from drugs. I was all ears at this point because I was bound by drugs myself. As the days went on, I saw things happen that I never saw before. When hands were laid on people [in prayer], they would fall down. To be honest, I thought everybody was totally cuckoo, but I kept going back night after night. I saw people I knew who were getting healed from things. I saw
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A Victory in Progress:
“Not Being Defined By Cancer”
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There’s Hope at “House of Hope”
Physical and Mental Abuse; Brokenness Healed! By Hazel K. Palmer For Jubilee News hpalmer@jubileenews.org
(Butler, PA) “I was abused from the time I was born until I was 15. And then I was abused from age 15 to 32 in every which way, form and fashion.” Michelle Schle-Courtesy Photo for Jubilee News “Real Parenting gel from Butler, PA shared. Barb Kravice (right) stands with with Di” “During my whole childhood ”Pg. 5a granddaughter, Zoe Ripple I was abused. I was very controlled and beaten down lump. It showed up in a sonomy whole life. I had many By Hazel K. Palmer gram and a chest x-ray. The wounds and much rejection. For Jubilee News doctor said: “I really thought it hpalmer@jubileenews.org was nothing, that it was going to My whole life was sexual, mental, and physical torment. be just a lymph node because (Mt. Pleasant, PA) Barb I went to the hospital of where it was located. But “Grandma’s Lap” Kravice from Mount Pleasant, when I was ten and was in Helena Harn unfortunately, it is cancer. It’s a PA has already defied the odds and out of psych hospitals ”Pg. 5a very rapid cancer that spreads as she has one experience because I didn’t know how really fast. It’s already at stage after another kicking out an to function. When I was 11, 3.” uninvited intruder from her life I tried to commit suicide and “I was sent for a CT scan by the name of breast cancer. developed a severe eating and my cancer doctor said: Barb shared, “I had my regdisorder because that’s how I ‘Unfortunately, it’s already gone ular mammogram in Novemcould gain control of my life. to your liver. We want to do a “A Loving Touch” ber. They saw calcium deposits pet scan to see if it’s in your My mother was pretty Jan Siarnicki on the left breast, so they sent mean to me all my life. I was ”Pg. 6a kidney, your lungs and your me in for a sonogram. After told I wasn’t wanted, so I brain. We have to find out how that, they did another mamfar it has gone since it’s already learned early in life to lay mogram and set me up for a low, to perform, cling, and showing up in your liver.’” The biopsy. The biopsy was negaoncologist’s expertise in regards jump through hoops to make tive. There was nothing in the people like me so I would feel to the shape and size of a spot breast in December. Everyaccepted. when it appears on a CT scan, thing was good. My mom was one of those is what led this specialist to rule “Love and Marriage” “Three times I was in the Christians that would beat Pastor Rena Perozich out potential spots that were hospital for 5 days with pneume during the week and Pg. 7a not caught on this type of test. monia while vacationing in raise her hands on a Sunday The lump began as the size of a Florida. I was in Florida from morning. What happened walnut and was then measured January 1st to April 1st. Docin your house stayed in your to be: 7 x 8 cm, the size of a tors got me well enough to house or you would get punsmall egg. come home. After I got home, ished. Barb continued: “From day I found a lump under my arm. I I was 10 years old when “Times & Seasons Under one, I spoke with my pastor and was being treated in the hosI was baptized in the Holy the Stars” Pg. 8a told him I needed to be anointpital in Greensburg for pneuSpirit and saved at Greater monia and sjogren’s, and that’s Works Outreach in MonroSee DEFINE Pg. 2A when I told them about the eville PA. That did help me
to get through the rest of my life! I met my first husband when I was 14 and got married when I was fifteen. My mom gladly signed me over to him and he was worse than my mom. He went on mission trips with the church and would beat me. I had five children before I was 20: a set of identical twin girls that died: Brittany and Courtney. Six months later, I was pregnant with Gabrielle and then came Chelcie and Anthony (Tony). I did miscarry at four months after I fell down the stairs. His name was James. I have three children here and three in heaven. I didn’t work. I didn’t drive. I didn’t get my driver’s license until I was 29. I endured many, many beatings on his behalf. He was a very large man and a nark at Shadyside, so I spent a lot of time by myself with my kids. I can remember every day I would think: Have I prayed enough? Have I fasted enough? Did I lose enough weight? Do I look pretty enough? I would iron sheets and pillowcases and put toothpaste on his toothbrush just to make him happy. But no matter what I did, nothing worked. That was the pattern for many years. My ex-husband would sit on top of me and choke me and punch me in the face. I had a CAT scan done and
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