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Stories: From Rock Bottom to the Rock of Ages

Friday, March 07, 2008

Georgana at Mission ArlingtonSixteen years ago, Georgana Moore was at rock bottom. She had just been released from prison, and was the mother of a baby girl who had been born while she was incarcerated. But she says now that the lowest point of her life is when God started preparing her for what she does today.

Georgana started working with Mission Arlington from the outside. When her daughter was four, she got a job managing a permanent residence motel in central Arlington, where she met Tillie Burgin and Lauren Musgrave as they coordinated activities for the residents of her property.

As her relationship with the Mission grew, so did her relationship with God. About seven years ago, Tillie asked Georgana to join the staff full time. Today, as a member of the Out-Back Team, she sorts donations that come in and works with young people who come to the Mission to do community service.

Georgana feels like God is using her to reach teens and young adults who have the same troubled past she did. The teens she works with now often do not have any idea of God’s love for them. She hides nothing and minces no words about her past as she shares her testimony here. 

“I believe God is using me and my past to help these kids.” She wants people to know that community service, or even a jail sentence, is not a dead end. To her, it is one unorthodox way God used to prepare her for mission work.

Georgana has been a part of the Mission Arlington family for over a decade now, and along with being thankful for the job she loves, she is also eternally grateful for the life she’s been able to give her now teenaged daughter.  Together they are able to tell everyone they meet about the loving heavenly Father who took them from rock bottom to the Rock of Ages!

Praise His Name!

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