Our Mission

24/7 Ministry to Women is a non-profit organization that offers a residential program for women struggling to overcome addiction. A Christ-centered approach to recovery empowers women to embrace the journey and experience personal transformation. 

Goals

A woman who completes the Regeneration and Transition Program has developed the skills necessary to attain independence and maintain self-sufficiency for herself and her children. 24/7 Ministry to Women will offer the program to any woman meeting the admission criteria and expressing a sincere desire to change her life with her mind set on the things above.

History

The 24/7 Ministry to Women, Inc. started in 2015 as an outgrowth of several local jail ministries.

The initial board of directors included the pastor and two members from the First United Methodist Church in Bonifay, members from First Baptist Church, Bonifay, a member from Carmel Assembly of God, and a member from Courts of Praise in Chipley. A safe, faith-based, residential, regeneration program for women who have drug/alcohol addictions and who are, or may have been, incarcerated, became an apparent need for all who conducted Bible studies, church services, or taught the Celebrate Recovery classes at the jails in Washington and Holmes Counties. The need for a treatment or regeneration program in which women could be placed, in lieu of prison or continuing the revolving cycle of being placed on probation, violating, and returning to jail was the impetus for the birth of the 24/7 Ministry to Women. Holmes/Washinton Counties have minimal long-term treatment programs for women. The 24/7 Ministry was bathed in years of prayer to respond to this critical need. During the nine years, the ministry has evolved, hundreds of women at the jail have participated in the services provided by various churches in the area. Many of them have participated in the Celebrate Recovery classes taught by members of the board of directors of the 24/7 Ministry to Women, Inc. Once a woman leaves the jail, she usually returns to the same environment from which she came and which she was using drugs, often because of poor choices, but frequently because she has no other more appropriate or viable options. The 24/7 Ministry to Women will provide a safe, residential, faith-based, regeneration program. The board of directors governs the ministry, which is now under the spiritual covering of First Baptist Bonifay. Directors are Lynn Adams, Jeremiah Guynn, Sandra Hardin, Beverly Helms, Diane Little, and John Wayne Searcy. The property for the ministry is on Bonifay Gritney Road in Holmes County. There is a septic tank, well, and electricity. Housing is needed for the directors.