ANSWERS TO YOUR QUESTIONS from BECKY SHAFFER (Executive Director)

Where did the concept of Saving Grace come about?

"I grew up in a very dysfunctional family.  My father came home only long enough get my mother pregnant again.  Mama was emotionally disturbed and was either violently abusive or in bed asleep.  I learned at a very early age that God was my daddy, and we talked daily.  At the age of 12, per a judge’s order, I was removed from the home and placed in a children’s home.  I graduated from the local Christian school, and at the end of the summer, I was expected to leave.  I went to college – mostly because I needed a place to live.  I was in survival mode, and I quickly got into a relationship.  By Christmas I found myself married and expecting my first child."

"Kent and I have been married for 22 years now, and God has blessed our marriage and our family.  We had only been married less than two years when we ended up becoming house parents at a children’s home, taking in troubled teenage girls.  Through the years, we saw the same trend with the young women we were serving; they too were not ready to face life on their own as an adult.  It was about six years ago that God began to plant the dream of [what’s now called] Saving Grace in my heart.  I began researching and as I found something I liked that would work for a transitional living program I saved it on my computer under a file I called, “Rebekah’s Hope."