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The Messenger Center is a 501©(3) non-profit, non-denominational Christ-centered discipleship, educational and counseling facility. We offer broad-based long term recovery services for all ages, genders, races, and their families/ significant others, who struggle with a variety of everyday problems. A few examples of these daily struggles are: anxiety, depression, mood swings, poor anger control, detachment from God, grief due to loss of loved ones, survivors of childhood physical/sexual/ emotional trauma, codependency, low self-esteem, relationship matters, parenting concerns, food binging and other eating disorders, obsessive/compulsive behaviors, and areas of addictive behaviors like shopping, internet porn, substance(s), etc. Because the Messenger Center is a non-profit organization, donations are needed to continue assisting individuals and families with quality services. Your donation is needed and gladly accepted. Testimonials The following Testimonials are examples of how utilizing counseling can help an individual learn and grow as they walk towards a healthy lifestyle. This is My Story I can't begin to write all that God has done for me. I accepted Christ into my heart 25 years ago. Twenty-two of those years I lived a very mundane life, not wanting to rock the boat and keeping peace in the family. My family was everything to me. I thought - all is well. Life is good. Deep down inside I wanted more. I wanted joy, pure joy. Where was it? I wanted all God had to give to me. What was that? I asked was this all there is to life? Is this what God has intended for me? I'm not living any different than people who don't have Christ. Three years ago the questions kept coming and coming more often. I tried to talk to my husband but he made me feel those questions were foolish and I should be happy. Then my life turned upside down. My husband left me. I blamed myself. What did I do wrong? My husband wouldn't be truthful with me. I cried out to God for answers, for truth. I just wanted the truth. God answered my prayers. The truth was my husband was having an affair and had several during our 23 yrs of marriage. The truth smacked me in the face. I didn't want to accept it. God has opened my eyes to many truths. There were many giants in my life that I had to face. I found myself on a mission to find the truth. God told me to face these giants and He would give me the joy and peace that I so desperately wanted. First--my birth mother and father gave me up for adoption. I wanted answers, the truth. Unfortunately it took my mother's death to go searching, to face the giant. I did. God gave me the strength. In that situation God has given me peace. Second--the people that adopted me were involved in a murder-suicide. My father shot my mother then himself. I wanted answers, the truth. To face that giant. I did. God gave me strength. In that situation God gave me peace. Third--in my marriage there was one lie after the other. I searched for truth and found out more truth than I thought I could ever handle. Again God gave me strength to face my giants, to face the unknowns in my life. To bring truth to light. As difficult as all this was for me God has shown me that my peace and joy lie within Him. He is the truth. Female, 53 years old |