Yolanda Atkins Cotton is a wife, mother and grandmother. She's also a former drug dealer, gang member and convict. That, however, was many years ago. Now, the Decatur woman uses her experience of life on the streets to reach those who are still living there.
While still in prison, Cotton says God began to touch her life, and she felt Him calling her toward some purpose. She just didn't know what it was. Then, one night sometime later, she had a dream. Cotton says, "I had on all this Army stuff, and I said, 'oh God, he's fixing to send me to the Army."
Instead, she came to understand that what God wanted was for her to be a soldier in the fight against poverty, addiction, homelessness and despair. Cotton found other women who had also struggled in their pasts and formed the Women of Completion ministry. "I call us His masterpiece. He took some junk and made something out of it," she says. Their mission is simple; to "let the people know you haven't done anything so bad that God won't forgive you, that God can't save you."
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