Todd & Sheila Curran live in New Holland, PA with their Akita, Emma, their two parakeets, Ren and Stimpy, and the one who thinks she rules us all, our tortie, Jazzy. Todd is an alcoholic and addict who worked hard in his recovery with the help of The Potter’s House clean-living program in New Holland. Sheila struggled with mental illness for most of her adulthood. She is thankful for Todd and her psychiatrist for helping her in her fight to become herself again. With the help of professionals and God, Todd and Sheila have become an awesome team devoted to God and each other. “Our past experiences give us the kind of empathy that you can’t learn or inherit any other way,” Sheila explains.

God has a purpose for all of us. When we prayed for guidance, God clearly showed us that the individuals in Kensington need us. Todd saw videos on YouTube about Kensington that spoke to his heart. He immediately felt that we had to do something to help. We both felt so much love and empathy for Kensington’s homeless. An individual Sheila works with asked Sheila to take him to a missions meeting at a nearby church camp. We didn’t know what the subject was. As the speaker talked about a drug rehab program and stories of addiction, all Sheila could think about was Kensington. It was as if God was using that speaker to make sure I was paying attention.

Days later, an unknown woman approached Sheila and talked to her about how her daughter died due to addiction and how she would go to Kensington whenever she relapsed. The following week at a craft group, a woman wearing a ‘Kensington for Christ’ t-shirt sat across the table from Sheila. Sheila kind of laughed to herself and thought, “Ok, God. I get it. We have to go to Kensington.” We drove to Kensington and prayed for the people.

And here we are…two ordinary people with our own troubled histories asking God to use us to reach the truly destitute for Christ.