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Kathy’s Story

15 Jan Kathy’s Story

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Have you ever met someone who has ever had a true heart change?  Someone who is set free and is free indeed?  Someone who leaves everything behind and purposes in their heart to move forward and to never look back? If you ever met Kathy Biedenharn, you met, in person, a truly free soul.

How does such a change take place?  I can tell you exactly when and where it happened for her as it was in the living room of our single-wide mobile home, New Year’s Eve, 1972 that Kathy came face-to-face with her Savior.  To say a change took place at that moment is a gross understatement.  Her life became one of surrender with her constantly saying, “where He leads I’ll follow.  What He feeds I’ll swallow.”  From that moment of conversion, Kathy was led down a mission-minded path that would eventually result in the opening of the first City of Faith reentry facility in Monroe, La in 1983.

When someone has been set free indeed, the only life you can lead after that is a life that is desperate for others to experience freedom too.  Kathy became focused on the freedom of others, body, soul and spirit.  Convinced that cycles of abuse, lawlessness, and addiction could be broken, she set out on a lifetime journey of offering this freedom to as many people as would receive.

Since the opening of the first facility in Monroe, over 20,000 individuals have been given that opportunity. Thousands have gained employment and received treatment and gone on to live a life of freedom while truly reestablishing family and community ties.  Additionally, since its inception, City of Faith has employed approximately 3,000 people who are similarly mission-minded and with the majority of that number establishing fulfilling careers either with City of Faith or other social service agencies, all because they bought in to Kathy’s original vision and quest for freedom for justice-involved individuals.

This life, her life, has inspired us all.  Now, as she fights a battle almost all of us have been or will be touched by in some form or other, we have committed to fighting alongside her as we join with the Alzheimer’s Association in making sure those in this fight are not alone.  Please join us February 7, 2026 for A Night to Remember, a gala event with all proceeds going to the Alzheimer’s Association.  You may purchase tickets here:  CityofFaith.org/gala.

See you there!

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