10/04/2026
20 Years. 20 Stories. 20 Weeks. 💛
For 20 years, Francis Court has been more than a place to live. It has been a place where families can find stability, support, hope, and the opportunity to build a new future.
As we celebrate 20 years of Francis Court, we’re sharing 20 stories over 20 weeks from families whose journeys have been a part of ours.
Here is one of those stories:
Prior to moving into faithworks, we were in a drug treatment program which is actually where Nick and I met. I had been in my addiction for 20 years, and so was he. I had just got my youngest at the time back from the system and was able to get more custody of my other son. After some sober time, we were blessed to move into Faithworks. I was able to move in first, and then Nick joined a couple of months later.
There, we gained living skills that we really needed to learn and practice. We developed a deeper relationship with the Lord and our careers began. Our life was finally looking “normal”. We needed that extra accountability and stability that the outside world would not have been able to provide for us.
Learning how to maintain children, jobs, sobriety, a household, and a healthy relationship in a safe environment, helped us become the people we are today. We are so grateful for our lives today. We both have over 6 years sober. We both have amazing careers today, a roof over our heads, cars that we own, healthy children. We were able to move into a rental with the two boys and then we were able to bring his two boys home for the first time in about 10 years. Just like that our family doubled over night. Then a tragic accident took my mother’s life and our world fell apart, we maintained our sobriety and had that solid foundation that FaithWorks helped us build. They never left our side. When that accident happened, we were out of work for a while and our financials were tight. FaithWorks stepped in and assisted us with our rent and utilities to help us maintain our housing.
Today, we now have five beautiful amazing boys that are ours. We have all of our kids, full time. We are saving money to buy our own home. We have our cars paid off in full. We have a “normal” life that we didn’t really know existed.
Thank you FaithWorks for helping to guide us, love us, and never doubting us. We have the most beautiful, chaotic, crazy, loving life today and you were a huge part in our story.-Jasmin-