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OPPORTUNITY
TO Serve
A NEW
LEGACY: One Courageous
Woman at a Time
weight of choices they wish they For Shanna, those victories are
could take back. deeply personal.
At the New Legacy Home for “This work is about restoring
Women, the message is simple but dignity,” she says. “When a woman
powerful: a new story is possible. begins to believe in herself again,
you can see the shift in everything.”
Shanna helped develop and launch
the residential program in 2018 The New Legacy Home is unique
under Church on the Rock. What in another way. The program is
started as a vision has grown into free to residents and receives no
a structured 15-month program government funding. Instead,
that walks women through healing, it operates entirely through the
personal responsibility, and spiritual generosity of donors, churches,
growth. The program is highly businesses, grants, and volunteers
structured and focuses on rebuilding across the Lubbock community. That
lives from the inside out. community support has become one
of the ministry’s greatest strengths.
Residents receive counseling, life
skills training, financial coaching, Local volunteers mentor residents,
parenting classes, job preparation, provide transportation, teach classes,
and discipleship. They learn and help women experience healthy
practical tools to rebuild their activities they may never have had
lives while also discovering their before. Businesses donate services
identity and purpose. But the real and goods. Supporters show up for
transformation goes deeper than fundraising events like the Second
ome people help change lives classes or schedules. Chance Gala.
quietly and build places where
Slives can change. “It’s about helping women realize
they are not defined by the worst
For Shanna Hargrave, Executive chapter of their story,” Shanna
Director of the New Legacy Home says. “When they begin to believe
for Women in Lubbock, this calling God has something more for them,
didn’t come from a single defining everything changes.”
moment. It grew out of years of
seeing and experiencing pain up Since opening, the program has
close, navigating her own struggles celebrated dozens of graduates who
and wrong choices, and ultimately have gone on to rebuild relationships
discovering that no story is too with their children, pursue higher
broken for God to redeem. Today, education, and step into stable
that belief has become a lifeline for careers. Many have paid off debt
women who walk through the doors while in the program, something
of the New Legacy Home carrying that once felt impossible. Some have
the scars of abuse, trafficking, even become homeowners.
addiction, trauma, and the painful
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