THE WAKE - Verzi, Jennifer

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Biographie:
Today Jennifer is living a life of peace and happiness. Not only is she passionate about the well being of her own life and family but also about the well being of others. Running a small thrift store in her community she serves the homeless on a daily basis with basic essential needs like clothes, shoes, socks, gloves, and blankets as well as providing household items to the women and children leaving domestic violence shelters. Having the desire to make a difference in our world she continues to share the love of Jesus one customer at a time. For more information about her non-profit organization you can visit thriftstoresecondchance.com and click on the Heaven's Household button....

Sommaire:
Feeling for the first time that I had everything under full control, I would no longer accept any kind of abuse and that I would spot it a mile away I set out once again on my own. Unfortunately and unknowingly I met a beautiful man who portrayed himself to be absolutely everything I had ever wanted and missed out on in all my previous relationships. Boy was I fooled. After only 3 months of courting I married him and the nightmare soon began. God spared my life 7 years ago. I survived domestic violence and spent 3 months in 3 different domestic violence shelters. I left the shelters with the same clothes I walked in with and a hole in the only shoes I had for 3 months. Oh, and hyper vigilant post traumatic stress disorder. I could hardly leave the house for the next 3 years. Slowly and gradually I have recovered and now I am helping women and children who leave domestic violence shelters set up their entire households. I pray everyday to be a blessing to those I meet and that my life not be for nothing, that all my suffering and sorrow not be in vain, but that by sharing my story it might make a difference in someone else's life. I have since started a non-profit organization called Heaven's Household, helping those women and children coming out of domestic violence shelters with the need of setting up a household. Moving out of shelters many of them have few or no possessions to establish a new home with. Once they have accommodations we then provide all the essentials for setting up a new household. Items such as couches, beds, pot and pans, dishes, kitchen utensils, lamps, vacuums, clothes, shoes, and small appliances....