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Terebinth Refuge is different in that we have a model that starts from beginning to end. Women come in and our hope and prayer is that one day she will be independent. We work with these women holistically through the body, mind, soul, and spirit.
“Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.”
God gave Cece a vision for the Terebinth Refuge many years ago in 2007. In His vision, God would be an intricate part of the healing process and it would be a refuge and safe place for women who were broken and hurting.
Prior to Terebinth Refuge Cece was already working with sex trafficking survivors. It was at Heartland Girls’ Ranch while working with teen girls, that she learned of the sexual exploitation and trafficking of these young victims. Cece saw the strong need for hope and healing. She worked at the State level with the Safe Harbor Law and then she developed the Hearts for Freedom program at Heartland Girls’ Ranch. She soon recognized that there were very little resources in our state for adult survivors. As time went on God started opening many amazing doors and Terebinth Refuge was born into the St. Cloud area community for adult victims.
The city of Waite Park has been instrumental in our growth as we support these women by offering us a free home for a little over two years. Then they worked with Martin Marietta Materials who bought the home and leased it back to us for free. This miracle gave Terebinth Refuge and the women in our program the security we needed to have the confidence to grow and thrive in this community. Now we have two homes for the women as they work through our program from the shelter home to the transitional home.
In 2020, Terebinth Refuge was blessed with another miracle. Part of the vision for Terebinth was to have a social enterprise. One of our volunteers, Kim Gregoire, had her own natural person care products business named Basic Care. One day Kim came to us and shared her heart for giving Terebinth her business which turned into what is now The Hope and Healing Store today. We still use all the same recipes and ingredients that Basic Care did, but now it is part of the vision for Terebinth.
Part of the vision for Terebinth was to have a social enterprise to give women the opportunity to practice employment skills. Now when they are ready to go out into the community, they have the confidence they need to excel.
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