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Our story
Inner City Ministries was established April 28, 2025. It was formerly known as Impact Paris, which was established in October 2016. We are a faith-based NA/AA recovery group that focuses on building a foundation in Jesus Christ based on the word of God to be free from addiction. I use a twelve-step program much like other recovery groups, but instead of believing in a higher power we specifically believe in Jesus Christ, and the price He paid on the cross to set us free.
This meeting is designed to target areas of their lives that cause them to repeat cycles of self-destruction, triggers, emotional abuse, fear, self-image, forgiveness and much more. Through prayer, teaching morals through the word of God, and how to build a relationship with Jesus Christ, they can be free from the chains that bind them mentally, physically, and spiritually.
I myself have been clean from drugs 27 years and sober 16 years, doing exactly what I’m teaching, freedom in Jesus Christ.
My passion in establishing this faith-based group stems from my own experiences with addiction, and inability to find a program that worked for me and targeted my needs. That’s why I know there will be some that this meeting will change their lives like it did mine, and others that may need a different kind of group or meeting.
My objective for this group is for members to keep moving forward, to keep striving for the next level of success in their sobriety and freedom, and to eventually be able to help in the outreach.
Inner City Ministries works in outreach, and that involves hitting the streets of Paris providing snacks, drinks, and blessing bags for the needy and homeless, but our main focus is ministering by sharing our testimony and praying for those who are on the streets bound by addiction.
— Lesley DeLa Rosa-Hernandez
What Services We Provide
Inner City Ministries is a non-profit organization committed to serving the underserved communities.
We offer a range of services, including a food pantry, addiction counseling, and resources for the homeless. We minister to people by showing them that Jesus is Lord and by His grace and love for His people that we turn from the ways of the world and start following the path He chooses for us to be on.
We offer a meeting time where people share their testimony, how they were lost but now found. We don’t glorify our past here at Inner City Ministries. We glorify the Lord that by His grace and love we are here to shine the light to our community.
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