Pastor Rod & Traci Brewer

Gideon House is a ministry of Family Cathedral of Praise Church in Mesquite, Texas and is a non-profit organization.

Family Cathedral of Praise Church has been faithfully serving the community of Dallas for 44 years and is currently under the leadership of Senior Pastor Harry Lee Sewell.

Pastor Rod was a methamphetamine addict for 14 years until Jesus Christ gloriously set him free in 1997. Pastor Rod is a graduate of Dallas Teen / Life Challenge (1998) & Christ For The Nations Bible College (2001). He is currently serving as Associate Pastor at Family Cathedral of praise Church in Mesquite, Texas a position that he has held for the last 8 years. Pastor Rod & his wife Traci have been married since 2000 and are the proud parents of 3 wonderful children.

 

Traci Brewer lived a life of drugs and rebellion for 29 years until Jesus Christ radically set her free in October 1999. She now serves beside her husband, Pastor Rod Brewer, at Family Cathedral of Praise. She has been a nurse for 16 years and in February was blessed with the opportunity to open Gideon's Home for Women. She has a passion to see other women have their lives transformed by the power of God and be productive citizens in society. She currently resides in Mesquite.

 

tom Sullivan

Hanging with my buddies drinking beer with the nightly excuse of working on a race car, used to be what I lived for.  I have a wife & young daughter that were ignored unless they were asking about racing.  This was no way for us to live and my wife was getting sick of it. She tried dragging me from church to church, looking for something to change.  After about 5 churches we ended up at FCOP, and something was different.  God's Spirit kept drawing us back and we were saved in September 2005 and God delivered me from alcohol in October 2005. Christ's ultimate goal was not merely salvation for us, but to fill us with the Holy Spirit & all the fullness of God so that we might reach others. Under the leadership of Pastor Sewell, the teaching & friendship of Pastor Rod, obedience & God's love, I am allowed & blessed to be a part of Gideon House.

Michael Fluellen

I was known by many as a black sheep of His family, who lost his way chasing fame & fortune in the entertainment world. Beginning with music & ending in all kinds of vice & sin! From the use of every kind of illegal drug to prostitution & so on! But, when I lost everything, & I mean everything, God called me through the preaching of Pastor Rod Brewer on a downtown Dallas street. God got my attention & I knew there would be no more chances! So, I humbled my ignorant self & set myself to learn & seek God & His kingdom first. The more I learn & obey, the more humble I become. And now I am what I am, what God's word says I am. You do the math. A tree is known by the fruit it bears. Only by the grace of God. All glory be to God. Amen!

Jerry Lachney

I am from Louisiana.  I have been living in Dallas since 2002.  In 2005, I lost my fiance in a terrible automobile accident.  I thought my life was over.  My life went spiraling out of control.  Drugs & alcohol until I hit bottom.  Homeless, living on the streets of Dallas, I met Pastor Rod Brewer.  He moved me into his Discipleship Home.  He showed me nothing but love & acceptance.  The Lord set me free from alcohol & drugs.  God has given me a renewed mind & servant's heart.  I now have love & compassion for other men & women in similar situations. 

Darvin Dulworth

I grew up in Dallas (Oak Cliff). I started smoking, drinking & drugging at a very young age. I know now I was trying to fill a hole in my life all those years. A hole I could never fill. My cup now overruns with my relationship with Jesus Christ. The hole is full & always wanting more. The roots of sin in my past were deep. If I wasn't blessed with my Pastor Rod Brewer & his vision of Gideon Houses, I would of never had a place of love & time to grow into the man God really created me for. I am proud & honored that God has let my Pastor see Him in me & trust me as a leader in the Gideon House. This just confirms that as I grow, He will have a whole lot more challenges & responsibilities for me in my future as a son of God. Thank you Lord for the Gideon House. 

TERRY BOWEN

My name is Terry Bowen and I was brought up in church, but rebelled at a young age. I ran around the mountain of addiction for the next 25+ years. After losing my family, I could feel myself at a crossroad. This was it. I was either gonna turn my life around and live, or die, & soon, from the drugs & alcohol. In 2009 I went back to church & gave my life back to Christ. Since then He has blessed me in so many ways that it is hard to count them all. Now I feel His call on my life to help others out of the same situations. Thanks to the Lord Jesus Christ, FCOP & Pastors Harry & Debbie Sewell & Pastors Rod &Traci Brewer, I now have that chance at Gideon House.

Rhonda Dyer

After years of struggling with alcohol & drugs, God set me free. I was 40 years old, homeless & pregnant. Through God's grace, He set me on a road of recovery through Jesus Christ. God has since then restored my family, my profession & allowed me to teach & preach salvation & deliverance in the women's jail & help oversee the Gideon's House. I am so grateful to God today for the privilege to minister & help women coming out of darkness. Thank you Jesus!

 

kim wilkerson

Kim Wilkerson was raised by a single mom and at age 13 was a full blown drug addict.  She struggled with a sense of belonging and seemed to always be “searching for that something more.”  One weekend, Kim was invited to church by a friend but she had been on a drug binge and was up all night. However, she reluctantly went and everything she had been searching for was found, Christ Jesus met her at church that Sunday morning and became her Lord & Savior. Kim knew that she could not trust herself and her ability to get off of drugs, so she placed her trust in God to help her.  She went to Teen Challenge for one year. Her treatment not only dealt with her drug addiction but the root of the addiction which was sin. She has a heart for women who struggle with addiction and has a desire to see God deliver them as she has been  delivered.   Kim now lives in Seagoville, Texas with her husband of 6 years who happens to be the friend that invited her church that day Jesus Christ became her Savior. Romans 5:8 But God commands His love toward us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us.

Sheila Wyont 

I was a drug addict and an alcoholic for years, until I had a life changing encounter with Jesus Christ in 1997. Since then I have been called to the mission fields of Africa, to the jails in Dallas and to the Gideon House in Mesquite, TX to spread the Love and Gospel of Jesus Christ. I am a wife of 15 years with two beautiful children that I am raising to run after God.

 

 

Kayla Boland 

After more than 12 years of drug abuse, sexual abuse, marital issues and eventually divorce I found myself at the end of myself. I realized that I couldn't keep living the way I was living and expect different results, so I decided to attend a Women's Retreat hosted by the Women's Ministry of Family Cathedral of Praise Church. On June 13, 2003, at that retreat, the Lord Jesus Christ miraculously saved and delivered me from all my sin and all the hurt & pain in my life. He rocked, rattled, & changed my world in an instant. I've never been the same and I've been serving Him ever since. On Ash Wednesday of 2004 He healed me of Hepatitis C. Since then I also went to college & made the Dean's List. I currently live in Mesquite, Texas where I worship at F.C.O.P. and serve in the Women's Gideon House Ministry.

Rhonda Miller  

I  have been a member of FCOP for 8 years. I first visited FCOP the first Sunday of January 2002 and there was a spoken word that came forth that day that set me free after 20 plus years of the mental torment of being abused  and rejected as a child. My life has never been  the same. My hearts desire is to be a spiritual mom for hurting ladies and single moms. I love the scripture Philippians 4:8, because we need to set our minds; to pursue, think, and seek after the thoughts of Christ. I want to help the precious women of Gideon's House to change their way of thinking and see themselves as the precious jewels our Heavenly Father sees them as. I live in Terrell, Texas and have been married to my husband Tom for 13 years and we have 3 sons and 1 daughter, along with 7 grandchildren.

Sherrell lowe 

She began working with Gideon House in 2011. She has seen the devastation of the effects of alcohol, drugs and mental illness on her family members for many years.  Sherrell has suffered from rejection and low self esteem most of her life.  Sherrell was contemplating suicide at one point in her life and decided to reach out to God for help.  Christ answered her prayer and met her right where she was and gave her a reason to live.  Sherrell has a heart to help those who are trying to change their lives and over come the effects of an addictive lifestyle.  She believes with all her heart that Jesus came to heal the broken hearted, set the captives free and she desires to be one who Christ works through to see the lives of men and women changed by the power of the Holy Spirit.

 

our staff

 

All of the Gideon House staff have come from the same background as our clients. Each leader has a personal testimony of victory over the difficulties of life that offers hope to those who live in our homes.

 

 

Gideon's house is breaking the Chains

 

Here at Gideon's House we are working very diligently to see that the chains of addiction, emotional distress, and poverty; that keep men and women from functioning in society; are broken forever. We take seriously the problems of men and women in our houses and are willing to serve our client's as long as needed to ensure that they can function independently and productively in society. It is our goal to transform mens and womens lives spiritually, emotionally, physically & financially so that they may become leaders in the world in which they live.