Abused, Addicted, Free | Trudy Makepeace

Inspired... with Simon Guillebaud

Great Lakes Outreach

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9 • 663 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

It took 33 failed attempts to get clean before Trudy’s life was radically turned around. Sexual abuse, trauma, prostitution, addiction, homelessness and more form the backdrop to a deeply inspirational story of hope. To contact Trudy, or to buy her book ‘https://www.trudymakepeace.com/product-page/abused-addicted-free (Abused Addicted Free – the True Story of Trudy Makepeace)’, she can be reached here: https://www.trudymakepeace.com/contact (info@trudymakepeace.com). We’d love to encourage you to buy 'x' number of copies to distribute to ladies in prisons throughout the UK to bring them fresh hope, donate at https://www.trudymakepeace.com/vision (trudymakepeace.com/vision). The resource ‘Ministering to Addicts’ will be available shortly on https://www.trudymakepeace.com/ (trudymakepeace.com). Trudy was touched by a book called 'The Father’s Love Letter' which you can discover yourself at https://www.fathersloveletter.com/ (fathersloveletter.com). If you'd like to receive a weekly podcast episode link that you can share with your friends on WhatsApp, click this link to join the group immediately: https://www.simonguillebaud.com/inspired-podcast/#whatsapp (simonguillebaud.com/inspired-podcast/#whatsapp) --- Produced by Great Lakes Outreach - Transforming Burundi and Beyond: https://www.greatlakesoutreach.org/?utm_source=inspired_descriptionandutm_medium=podcastandutm_campaign=inspiredandutm_id=inspired (greatlakesoutreach.org)

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0:00.0	For me, the biggest sign that God was real was after praying that prayer the second time,
0:06.1	the complete desire for drugs just left me.
0:09.1	And I can tell you, maybe in 16 years, I've never had a desire to put a pin in my arm again,
0:15.0	pick up a crack pipe to use again.
0:17.5	For me, at that moment in time, it was the biggest miracle. Welcome everybody. This is
0:24.3	Simon Gilbo with Inspired. It's great to be back with you this week. I've got another fantastic
0:28.6	guest. I'm super excited. Inspired is all about stirring faith. It's gritty stories of overcoming
0:35.8	despite horrific circumstances in life. It's about bringing hope amid so many gritty stories of overcoming despite horrific circumstances in life. It's about bringing hope
0:40.5	amidst so many grim stories to tell some good news of God breaking in. So this week we have
0:46.2	a Trudy Makepeace with us. Welcome, Trudy. Thank you, Simon. Great to be with you. And Trudy
0:52.0	has got a book out. It's called Abused, Addicted Free, the true
0:56.7	story of Trudy Makepeace. And she'll be telling that in a moment. In Burundi, I've got a fair
1:03.2	experience of working with what was Trudy's story, which is ending up in the parlors and prostitution
1:09.3	and crack addiction and all sorts of stuff.
1:12.6	Out there, so many ladies almost have to engage in it because there's so much poverty.
1:18.6	So we have a number of projects. We work alongside these ladies.
1:22.6	One time I actually hired out two ladies for a night that completely, I didn't want it to be a stunt,
1:28.0	but we prayed, Lord, give us two young girls who clearly want to get out of it.
1:35.3	And these two girls came along.
1:36.9	Their names are Doreen and Eden.
1:38.5	They came to a hotel and completely unsuspecting, but it was beautiful.
1:42.8	I showed up and my friend Cossette
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