 Linda, we thank you so much for being here and we just would like just to hear from you a little bit about what you do in the organization, what Genesis Project is all about, and just a testimony of one of the girls that have been touched and impacted by your guys' organization. Hi. Thank you so much for welcoming us here. First I want to go ahead and read this to you really quick so I don't forget anything in my nervousness. So the Genesis Project was started by a police officer who actually worked the streets with the girls and unfortunately he would be arresting them and in 2006 this deputy Andy Connor was out on the streets with the girls and asking different girls things that are going on and after months he realized and the girls coming to him and saying help me get out of this he realized that this was not something they wanted to be in which is what most people think this is what they want and it is not they are trapped in this for whatever reason however it came about and unfortunately now a lot of it is families are selling them so it is getting a lot worse but God got hold of Andy's heart and said you need to do something you need to stop this help them and so he threw a lot of prayer and on his knees daily the Lord brought it to him that he was to open a drop-in center for these girls and that was succeeded we do have a drop-in center for them I've been working with them since 2011 and what we do is our whole main goal is rescue restoration and release so rescue is immediate shelter the women arrive at the center to have their basic needs met this includes food hygiene clothing and a safe place to rest because a lot of them are homeless it's not like it used to be now they are homeless they're actually sleeping outside and so they will go all night they'll have absolutely no rest they'll have to be with 40 men a night and so when they come in they're exhausted and a lot of them unfortunately are addicted to drugs heroin and meth are the biggest ones right now and so it's not something that's easily kicked and so it takes a long time to help them through all of this the restoration is the education and rehabilitation so they go to detox they go to different organizations that will help them through that we are there to help them find those resources we provide counseling job and life skill classes that's what I do I'm a the program developer and so I help them put programs together to help them get out of this and learn some job skills and life skills we help them with transportation medical needs going to appointments medical appointments anything that they have we have a huge wonderful group of volunteers that will come right along us and help us with that if we call they're right there to help GEDs we make sure that they can get their GED and we have had a lot of girls we have served over 200 in our center so and the other the final is release referrals to safe housing currently the Janice project refers to clients to safe house and residential programs through organizations that partner with us and we have a lot and we're so thankful for them eventually we would like to have our own safe house and this is our our goal because right now as even as we work each day we will have girls come in and say I'm done I can't do this anymore and they want out they want to go to detox they want to go in a safe place and there's not enough it has exploded so much that there is not enough room for these girls and so we are our prayers to be able to have a safe house that hopefully we can we can house at least 40 so this is our main goal and hope that we can be open 24-7 right now we're not able to do that I am right now in the process of I've got a program going where we have just started they will be able to work in the center so I will be teaching them life skills and work skills there'll be four jobs available in the center they will actually get paid so the owner has decided I'm gonna pay them hourly but they will work under me and I will teach them different skills so that they can go out into the society and have a job right now they cannot they have no references they have no skills so they get discouraged and they feel they're not worth anything and they want to quit we don't want this to happen we want them to be out there have confidence so this is what we're we're starting now and they're excited about it they will get a work reference when they leave into them that is huge as I was worshiping with you this morning I really felt that I was supposed to give you this testimony we had a 12 year old girl that came from another state her mother rescued her bless her heart she'd been it for a while from what I understand I don't know how long she rescued her she brought her up to this area went into a well they thought was a safe place did not know that the pimps were in pursuit they got ahold of them they beat the girl up very badly she was into the hospital and the mother fought them off on the police came but she is such a survivor her story is horrific I can't go into it all but it is horrible weeks ago she came into the center with her mother and she sat there and she said to us who is the lamb of God just like that who is the lamb of God and so we tried to explain to her who the lamb of God was and gave her the gospel no foundation in Christ so she says to me she goes can I talk to you in the other room for a minute and I said okay so I take her inside and she said I have been hearing a voice and this voice has been calling himself Satan and he's telling me to pray to him and if I do pray to him he will give me all the money that we need to take care of my my mom and I and she said but there's this other voice that keeps saying to me no I'm the lamb of God I died for you two weeks ago she came to cry she is now a child God she is in school now she just started school she needs a lot of prayer as you know as they say the sewers parable there's no foundation so we need to be praying for her constantly that Satan doesn't try and take that away from her it was just so pathetic this morning when you were singing the lamb of God because that truly is God is fighting for these girls and we need to be right alongside of them Linda thank you and we as a church want to give you this check from us and from what we were able to raise for it and we know that this is just only the beginning and you guys go ahead and give her another hand of applause