We've got women here who are homeless and we have women here who have a trust fund.

They, what brings them together and is consistent factors, they're desperate for help. Welcome to the Experience Jesus Calling Podcast.

The Next Door is a nonprofit organization that provides physical, emotional, and spiritual rehabilitation

for women in need of addiction treatment related to drugs,

alcohol, mental illness, trauma, and incarceration.

The women who are a part of this organization daily witness the profound effect of offering hope and

resources to countless women who come through their doors looking to start a new

life. My name is Linda Lathers and I serve as the CEO of the next door.

The next door got it start because my church in the heart of downtown Nashville

had a building that they bought and we didn't quite know what the purpose of

was at the building and so we had a

wild group of praying women we called ourselves and we just got this burden to

utilize that building for good and so we knew to pray and we knew to go and ask the experts in the community what the needs were because quite frankly we did not know.

When we found out that the needs of our community or there gaps in the services for women, women who had addiction,

mental health disorders, trauma, needed housing, specifically what happens when a

woman comes out of incarceration? Well that was a new world for us, but we went to

the jails in prison, we asked the ward and tell us about these women

He said miss Leathers it's called roll-up one roll-up one

It's that final door or gate that a woman comes to and she's ready to be released.

You think that'd be a great day of celebration,

but he told us it's a great day of heartbreak

because she's gonna be right back in here

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