Hope Highlights

March 2024

Progress & Achievements

In February we provided services to 5 new individuals
17 total clients for February
14 clients employed throughout Feb
12 men residing in House of Hope
12 clients average attendance at Men of Valor life skills class

Director's Corner

“He is Risen. He is Risen Indeed!”

Greetings to our Jobs of Hope family!

This March, we celebrate the Easter season with Palm Sunday on March 24^th, Good Friday on March 29^th, and Easter Sunday on March 31^st. We, the staff and board of Jobs of Hope, pray that your Easter season is blessed and that the joy of the Risen Savior meets you in a powerful way! Easter is the season where we celebrate the death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ. The phrase often spoken at this time in Western churches is “He is Risen. He is Risen Indeed!” His death paved the way for you and me to have a personal relationship with God. No more would man be separated by a priest, temple, or curtain. His resurrection means that as He rose again, we too can have a new life through faith in Jesus.

My hope is that you will also reflect on and pray for the clients of Jobs of Hope. They too are seeking a new life, a new attitude, a new way of thinking, a new way of living. Our clients all are at individual stages, and progress looks different for every client. But the commitment to change is strong. We are seeing our clients re-establish relationships with wives, children, and parents! We are seeing clients experience life as a sober individual for the first time in years!

We ask that you continue to pray for Jobs of Hope:

Finances for 2024
That we can provide services to more men in 2024 than ever before
That we can establish services for previously incarcerated women in Weld County
That we can make an impact on the families and loved ones of our clients
That each client will find success, renewal, and a transformed life

Thank you for all the love and support from you, our Jobs of Hope supporters. We are grateful for each one of you.

Dan

Dan Ordaz

Executive Director

Jobs of Hope

Stories of Success

"Community Gives us Stability..."

I am Dave Estreich and I facilitate a relapse prevention group with Jason Bingham. I believe community gives us stability and feelings of purpose. Recovery provides a message of a future filled with hope. Recovery breaks down barriers and navigates obstacles. Hope is internalized while fostered by community: family, friends, peers, and providers. We begin to believe in ourselves and gain the hope that recovery is possible.

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Chairman's Update

It is much easier to judge everyone else’s shortcomings than it is to see our own issues. We can go through our day judging ourselves by our good intentions and only see others by their actions. The Bible is clear in telling us that we are to take care of that big spruce tree in our own eye before complaining about the speck in someone else’s.

What would it look like if Grace wasn’t in our lives, and there was no consideration for our mistakes? Do we dish out grace like an earned commodity and limit it to people who we decide deserve it?

Without thinking of what I was doing, I caused additional pain for others thinking that I could regulate favor on someone else based upon what I thought they deserved.

The most important grace available to us is from God. We don’t deserve God’s grace. We can’t earn it and we certainly aren’t entitled to it. God showed us grace when his son Jesus came to pay the price for us all. We deserved death and he wrote a different story for his followers. It’s wonderful when we grasp the gift that God gives us in the form of his grace every day.

The words of John Newton, slave trader and ship captain turned preacher have never rung truer in my life as they do today, “Amazing grace how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost, but now am found. Was blind but now I see!”. What God gives freely transforms lives. Let’s keep that perspective in our interactions with one another. I definitely want to be generous with grace to others.

Extending Grace

The idea of God’s grace can be difficult to understand in our relationship with the lord. Grace is powerful and allows us to be loved, to love ourselves, and to love others through grace. God’s grace is not earned but given to us freely. It is our bridge that He built in our relationship with him (Rev. J. Patrick Street, 2019).

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