by Angela Wier | Dec 19, 2023 | Birmingham Campus, Lowndes County Campus, Montgomery Campus
December is a busy month for the teaching team and community relations staff at HIM. One key role is recruiting students for the upcoming year. Often we are asked how we find students, and in reality, HIM employs a wide array of methods, including those below: Word of...
by Crystal Gilliland | Sep 20, 2023 | Foundry Farm, The Foundry Campuses
Devon Webb was born in Jasper, Alabama and has fond memories of his elementary and middle school years. Unfortunately, after the loss of his grandmother when he was only twelve years old, his mother began to party and use drugs to cope with her loss. Devon began...
by Nate Freeman | Jul 27, 2023 | Birmingham Campus
Birmingham’s Class 2023.3 was a historic class for many reasons. Not only was it the largest graduating class in the history of the Birmingham campus with ten people earning diplomas, but it was also the first class to have a set of three siblings graduate from...
by Nate Freeman | Feb 10, 2023 | Lowndes County Campus
Latasha Gallahan came from a broken home, but it was also a home where her mother taught her and her two sisters the value of hard work. As a young adult, Latasha became a mother to a baby girl. She got married and moved to Tennessee a few years later and had another...
by Nate Freeman | Jan 20, 2023 | Birmingham Campus
When Yolanda Paige’s father passed away, it came as a shock. No one knew of his illness — not even his family. As her way of coping, she began looking for love in all of the wrong ways and places. Then, one day, her sister picked her up from work in the...
by Nate Freeman | Jan 13, 2023 | Montgomery Campus
At 39 years of age, Laneisha Edwards found herself homeless and crying out to God for help. She was extremely tired and wanted to find her children. She wanted to stop doing drugs as she realized that was preventing her from becoming who she needed to be. Then, this...
by Nate Freeman | Jan 9, 2023 | Montgomery Campus
Early in 2022, Jeffery was unemployed and losing hope in life. He grew up in an area where trouble was easy to find and he had no problem finding it. Jeffery found himself hanging out with the wrong crowd doing the wrong things including drugs/alcohol and even a...
by MeLeah Bennett | Aug 25, 2021 | Birmingham Campus
Johnny Cowan II Before coming to Hope Inspired Ministries, Johnny says his life was going in circles. It was difficult for him to find a consistent job, and he felt very limited in his ability to move forward. He was beginning to lose hope. One day, as Johnny was...
by MeLeah Bennett | Jul 16, 2021 | Birmingham Campus
Often, we are asked about our students and the challenges they face. Our first opportunity to get to know a potential student comes when a H.I.M. coach conducts the initial applicant interview. To meet students where they are, it is so important for us to understand...
by Joleen George | Jul 1, 2021 | Lowndes County Campus
On June 24th, three Hope Inspired Ministries students got to experience their graduation ceremony. It was a powerful evening full of laughter and tears. The three graduates were Ardell Green, Latasha Gallahan, and Terrias Searight. Going through the nine-week program...
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