Saturday, June 27, 2015

Purpose For Living


Teamwork, 180 Style!

Pastor Parris thanking Anna Donahue for the amazing ministry at The 180 Center

Purpose For Living

We are so blessed to have Anna Donahue come to The 180 Center.  She has been a part of Victory Fellowship for a long time and God used her to speak into the men in a strong way.  The message was on God's ultimate purpose for our lives to know Him and make Him known.

Anna Donahue Visits 180
Don teaching


Students make phone calls to family each week.  I was in the office overseeing calls and was so blessed to hear the student side of the call that led to his mom sending a text to the lady who referred him to The 180 Center.  She is testifying of the wonderful conversation she had with her son:

"I got to talk to my son tonight.   He told me not to cry because he was the happiest he's ever been in his life.  He said with God he doesn't miss anything.   He said Jesus died for him and now he must live for God.  WHAT?????   He said he misses nothing about the life he was living and they don't talk about it.   He said (our family) has 11 months because he wants to stay (at 180) for a year, before he starts preaching to us about being saved and living for God!!!!!
Thank you through my broken heart and tears.  You lead my son where he needed to be thru Jesus.   I will be forever grateful. I know he has a road ahead of him.   But just a glimpse of my son back is overwhelming!"

"For if a man is in Christ he becomes a new person altogether—the past is finished and gone, everything has become fresh and new. All this is God’s doing, for he has reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ; 2 Corinthians 5:17

God is so good!  He wipes out all the mess of our past and gives us a fresh start!  He is the God of redemption and it is such a privilege to witness first-hand this work happening in the young men who walk through the doors of 180.

Hunter is our newest addition and is really young and ready to get everything that God has for him.  There may be someone that you know that needs some courage to even make the move towards total wholeness.  You can be that voice of hope to take them by the hand to walk through the door.

"Therefore, behold, I will allure her [Israel] and bring her into the wilderness, and I will speak tenderly and to her heart. There I will give her her vineyards and make the Valley of Achor [troubling] to be for her a door of hope and expectation. And she shall sing there and respond as in the days of her youth..."  
Hosea 2:14, 15 AMP


Jacob Tabor leading 180 Worship!





Thank you for your continued prayer for The 180 Center, Restoration Center For Men.  Don and I are missionaries under Victory Fellowship and are very grateful for one-time and monthly gifts of any amount to help us with our expenses. We are also looking for donations of soap, toothpaste, and other daily hygiene products for men.   Click here for Victory Fellowship's online giving link. Designate the donation for Don and Mary Bryant   You can also mail checks to: Victory Fellowship 5708 Airline Dr.Metairie LA. 70003.



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This is the website for The 180 Center, Restoration Center for Men, has all the information and an application for entering The 180 Center on the website:

Please feel free to write us or call us:
The 180 Center:  (504) 309-1050
Email:  mbryant@victoryfellowship.net or dbryant@victoryfellowship.net

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