Greetings! My name is Aleshia. I’m reaching out for help, a chance, a Fighting Chance. A chance at life. A chance to get back on my feet.
I come from a broken home here in Ohio. My mother committed suicide in the county jail. She hung herself just days after my 14th birthday. As if my family wasn’t already broken. Now my family was shattered.
I was dating a man that I moved in with after her death. He was 10 years older than me. We would marry 5 days after my 18th birthday and spend the next 17 years together. We had a son in 2008. Everything I would come to know was found in him. His family became my family, the only family I would know. My world
As the years went on him and I grew apart. Our relationship became toxic. We had another son in 2019. After his birth things got really bad. Mental and emotional abuse. I was so depressed. Fighting got worse and very unhealthy environment around our boys. Against my better judgment I left. I left because I felt I had nothing to offer. He was the one that could financially provide. He had family to help. I had nothing. Felt like nothing.
I went and lived on the streets. Using drugs to numb any and all feelings. Every time I thought of my boys and how my life was turned upside down I’d use more. The feeling of despair each time I’d want to call for help but nobody to call, I sank further in my depression. Hopelessness.
I ran from my pain for so long it was going to kill me. Then my kids would be without a mother just as I was. I was stricken with guilt and shame. I was ashamed of my choices. I was drowning. Fear was consuming me.
One day I met a man that told me about Jesus. He shared his testimony with me. What he found in 1975 at the Apostolic Lighthouse Church is exactly the hope I needed. I had been filling my void with all the wrong things.
I attended this church for the first time on March 12, 2023. My life has forever changed. Glory to God. I was unfilled with the Holy Spirit. Immediately the chains of guilt and shame broken. Gone. Glory to God.
So why am I here asking for money?
I’ve changed my life. My Salvation was found in Jesus Christ. My mind has been renewed.
Financially I’m struggling.
I have been working at a car wash for $6.50/hr plus tips. I pay $168 bi weekly for child support. Bring home pay is $368 every two weeks. I’m barely getting by. Without transportation I’m unable to make it to a better paying job.
I needing help getting a car for a better paying job. Getting my own place so I can get my children back in my life. A Fighting Chance to be the women and mother that I know I’m meant to be.
Thank you for reading.
God Bless
I love you.
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