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GIVING BACK changing lives
HOME OF GRACE has served the Coast since 1965 with Christ-centered addiction recovery.
S story by Kelsey Sunderman-Foster photos by John Stricklin and courtesy of Home of Grace
ince 1965, the Home of Grace has been serving recovery is divided into phases, each building upon the the Coast through their Christ-centered addiction next and focusing on a specific goal. The success of the recovery program. Over the past 50 years, tens of program has been overwhelming and is achieved through thousands of individuals battling addiction have classroom work, individual and group counseling, work
recovered with help from the Home of Grace.
The program began as the passion project of Reverend Bill Barton, Sr. in 1964. While pastoring a church in Pascagoula,
he took 13 men to a Christian recovery program for alcoholics in Tallulah Falls, Georgia called the Victory Home. “He was inspired by what he saw there and in January of the following year, he started the Home of Grace in a donated trailer that was placed on 10 acres of donated land,” said Clay Barton, one of Bill Barton Sr.’s grandsons and business manager at the Home of Grace.
Just a few years after it opened, the Home of Grace expanded to include a women’s program in Gautier. Their two campuses provide three-month housing in a safe and compassionate environment. Throughout the program,
therapy, community living and devotion. The Home of Grace recovery program emphasizes refining spiritual disciplines that will help to create a lasting effect on the lives of its participants.
“We are currently working on a scholarship campaign in an effort to raise half a million dollars by the end of the year,” Clay Barton said. “If we succeed, we’ll be able to provide half-scholarships to 200 individuals coming into the program.”
The Home of Grace is accepting donations to their scholarship fund through their website, over the phone and by mail.
Home of Grace
228.826.5283 • www.homeofgrace.org
BACOT/MCCARTY FOUNDATION
A Portion Of This Sponsorship Goes To Support Our Local Charities Along The Coast
WWW.BACOTMCCARTY.ORG
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