Corasia came to stay with me last year for six months. Her mom had lost her job and they had lost their place and were homeless.  I had know Corasia for the past year from SOZO and Late Night. She was in the second semester of her freshmen year at a local high school.  A guy at school who had a few girls prostituting for him started to recruit her, and in her words, she was so close to going that track before she moved into House of Dreams. She lived there with two other girls who were also seeking to pursue their dreams of graduating high school, getting jobs, and growing more into a mighty woman of God.  It was an amazing time with Corasia while she stayed with us. She got her first job, she enrolled in honors classes, and was an active member of our SOZO leadership team. Corasia moved back home with her mom six months later.  We saw her initially and then we would only talk to her from time to time. She kept herself very much at a distance.  During this time she helped with a Drama at her school, but shortly after that hearing from Corasia was rare. She explains this time as trying to do it all on her own and running after things that would never fill her. She got linked up with the college bound program at her High School and was in class everyday with the Pastor of SOZO. Some of the girls in her group started asking her about the drama she had been in. They shared with her how their lives had been changed and touched by what she had been a part of.  God started to speak to Corasia that what she at been a part of in the Drama was to be more frequent in her life and that she needed to get more involved again with the SOZO team.  Corasia started coming back to SOZO leadership meetings!! She shared that she was ready to come back and be involved with what God was doing and that she had realized that He had indented her life to be used for God! She came to our weekly meeting and received pray and ministry in front of everyone, boldly prayed and gave some of the weight she’d been carrying to God.  Then she prayed for others that night and spoke truth into their lives of how they cannot do it on their own, and shared from her own testimony of how she has stuffed everything inside and she can’t do it anymore. That during the time in her life that she was “running away” to things that she thought would make her feel better, the time in her life when her mom was loosing their house, that all she wanted was someone to hold her and let her cry in their arms and comfort her. She wanted someone to tell her that they loved her and help show her which way to go.  But she shared you would never know that was going on inside because outside she kept it together, she came off as stuck up or confident. She never expressed her need and kept her hurt deep inside.  That night at leadership she led 2 other girls to bring what they were carrying on their own to God and encouraged them to allow God to show them who they are and that she was finding out more everyday but she was taking steps to have people in her life that could help her, like the pastors and leaders at SOZO. It was so amazing to see her in tears sharing what God has been doing in her and speaking such truth and hope to encourage the other girls!!! She is an anointed leader for God and we are so honored and blessed to have her be a part of our SOZO family!! She is a courageous woman and has chosen to face her fears of being rejected by sharing what’s really going on in her life, by really diving in to be known by God and by others!!! And she is SO LOVED and has a group of people who will let her know how loved and special she is!!! She is not alone!! She is a leader in an army of youth that will lead many others to know Christ and come into God’s Family!!!!