Guest speaker for Thursday’s noon meeting of the Minden Lions Club will be Chelsey Jewel Cormier, manager of The Broken Bean and a recent Louisiana Adult and Teen Challenge graduate. She will be introduced by Lion John Rodland.

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My name is Chelsey Jewel Cormier, and I’m 34 years old from Lafayette, Louisiana. I graduated from Louisiana Adult & Teen Challenge in April, and I was called to stay on as a staff member. I now serve as the Manager of The Broken Bean and as the Ministry Coordinator for our ministry team. God made a way for me to go to Louisiana Adult & Teen Challenge in 2023 after years of living in fear, resentment, and shame from toxic relationships, drugs, alcohol, and generational pain that had consumed my life, leaving me feeling beyond repair. But God used this program to break down every wall I had built, so He could rebuild me and use my story to share His light with other women and children through this very same ministry. My son, Joshua, has been with me throughout my time in the program. And after almost two years, the Lord has begun to slowly but surely restore my relationship with my daughter, Faith, as well. I have worked at The Broken Bean since entering the program, and it has become such a special place to me.

Minden Lions Club meets at noon every Thursday in the American Legion Hall on Pine Street.