The Chrysalis Shepherding Home
"A Ministry of Mercy, Compassion and New Beginnings"


What is a Shepherding Home?

     Good question!  There are many different types, but ours is for the specific purpose
of helping women who are trapped in life defeating choices (theirs or others) to make a new start.



What kind of problems will you help with?

     We will help restore your life where it is needed.  You may have experienced eating disorders, addictions, physical or sexual abuse, generational problems and are living in the bondage of false beliefs, self-hatred and condemnation.  That is NOT what God wants for you!  We want to point you toward the only One who can give you a hope and a future.  You will receive Biblical counsel and study, training in life skills, and guidance in career and educational goals.  Most importantly, you will have the opportunity to find out who Jesus really is. Are you in need of some good news for a change?  Is your heart breaking because of the darkness that surrounds you?  Keep reading...  

     Jesus, Himself, said that He fulfilled the promises of Isaiah 61:1-4 which states,
     "The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to preach good news to the poor.  He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn, and provide for those who grieve in Zion - to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair.  They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord for the display of his splendor.  They will rebuild the ancient ruins and restore the places long devastated; they will renew the ruined cities that have been devastated for generations." (NIV)


 

     Through our parent organization, Tri-State Family Services, we have seen the needs of hurting women;  women sometimes trapped in relationships and situations with few options. By seeing the need, we have felt compelled to take action. Therefore, we have purchased a home in a beautiful, peaceful, rural setting and prepared it as a place of restoration for wounded women.

     "For Christ's love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died.  And He died for all that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.  So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view.  Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.  Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!  All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them.  And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation.  We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making His appeal through us."  
              
2 Corinthians 5:14-20 (NIV)

 

Applications for residents are now being accepted



Contact Us At:

 217-357-3343 or 1-800-357-1991
609 Locust
Carthage, IL 62321
email: tsfs@adams.net