Warrior Survivor & so much more - Constance Fodor

Connie says, "I was in and out of the system as a child, a runaway multiple times beginning at age 5,  lived in 13 foster homes and two shelters, abused and neglected by my mother and abandoned by my father at age 2. Arrested for shop lifting and trying drugs at age 11, breaking into homes to find food and  finding a place where I fit in was my life and the hopes of it getting any better seemed grim…until I met Jesus for the first time at age 12. It wasn’t until at the age of 15, when moving to Alabama, that I began my new journey of a new life with Christ.  Jesus blessed me with my first Christian family to move in with and it was then that I truly started on my path to healing, new beginnings full of hope and purpose.   At age 23 I was called to work and live at a long term shelter for battered woman and abused children.  After being at the shelter for 5 years, God moved upon my heart to adopt a 3yr old little boy as a single mother. I started on a new journey as a single mom for the next 17yrs.  This little boy I’m speaking of is now 20 today and has recently moved out on his own as an adult.  God has indeed blessed my life so.   I’ve been privileged and honored to have worked at the WellHouse as a house mentor to woman rescued from human trafficking, to speaking once a week to teenager girls in juvenile detention centers to even back at the same domestic violence shelter 15yrs later part-time assisting with their children.  My life started out wrecked, broken and I was a statistic, but God had a plan and knew me when I was in my mother’s womb.  Praise Jesus for salvation, new beginnings and a life full of hope and purpose."