God is sooo amazing!

First by His grace, God is able to see beyond the place where people falter and stumble! He is able to look down from the heavens and choose people just like you, and that is exactly what has happened at Full Circle Outreach. He chose a couple of guys with drug problems to come to the end of themselves; that would be Pastor John Nipper and Pastor Glenn Doty. God then convinced them and then put them in close enough proximity that they would link up with their wives, Kris and Dian and begin Bible studies in their homes to which ends were the establishment of Full Circle Ministries.

After several months of Bible studies, other addicts began to show up for the studies and begin to get cleaned up. Partnerships and restoration began to flow from the studies. One night Pastor Glen got a phone call from a friend whose cousin was being released from a local prison. It was a young man, who at that time had no place to go: that began the ball rolling strong in terms of residential services. Pastor Glen and John picked up that young man and he stayed the night in a camper that at the location of the Bible Study in the driveway. He was fed, bathed and the good news of Jesus Christ was preached. Realizing the necessity for facilitating this young man’s needs in a more reasonable fashion, the two ministers rehabilitated a storage room that was located up the street on Pastor John Nippers house. Shortly after this work, an apartment was rented and four beds were facilitated. A little further and a house was then rented as twelve beds came along. A couple of more years and a property was purchased which opened up a chapel and more beds—more people—more buildings, more space -- more beds, expansion and growth, and growth to Full Circle’s current status: seventeen beds at our ranch in Norco, California and current purchases in the community of more houses. The current estimated bed space is at 23 beds and counting. God has continued to multiply us as the believers gathered and many have been healed to bring us over approximately nine years of exciting labor (Acts 2: 40-47).

Oh yeah…the young man who stayed with us at the start came to the ministry recently. He had stopped by on one of our service nights. He had three years clean off drugs and alcohol, was driving a brand new Dodge pick-up truck, with his formerly estranged four year old son sitting by his side. The young man stopped by to say thanks to the ministry. He was on his way to Colorado—being offered a foreman position with an aggressive construction corporation, he was moving there with his son to continue the great adventure that began when in his misery he could find no hope except that which was found in a God that saves the lost from poverty and destruction. The man was full of both smiles and tears as he gave a testimony that night in front of the congregation that was gathered. He could not believe all God has done for him and stated that it all began at right here at Full Circle Outreach. The entire congregation wept with joy! He’d experienced true life—freed from addiction and prosperous through the mentorship of Christ and His people—what a wonderful story!

Such are the lives of those who come to Full Circle outreach with willing hearts and open minds for the Lord Jesus Christ. God is the author of life and he holds it out to each of us who have lost our way. If the story sounds like a fantasy, scam or myth —it is not! There are so many more to tell but with little time to tell of all that we have seen God accomplish in the lives of the men here at Full Circle

The real question is: What is your story? Do you need a “joyous ending?” If you are tired of the life of sorrows and the darkness of addiction, then please allow God the time and space to recreate your story! Let Him do something wonderful and beautiful of your life today! Allow yourself to be rescued while there is time left! God is good and he has a plan for your life (Jer 29:11). Help us, to help you, find your “way” to the peace that God has established in the young man in our story. He is ready. Are you? Then…call us today.

With Great Love,
Pastor Glenn Doty and all the staff at Full Circle Outreach

Please pray for the guys at Full Circle Outreach and leadership every time you eat a meal.