Support Our Cause
We provide holistic-care for female victims of sexual exploitation and human trafficking. With your generous contribution, a woman in your community will be able to grow into the beautiful flower she was meant to be.
Five Years of Being Sunflower Strong
Celebrating 5 Years since the establishment of The Sunflower House
Our Vision
Sun Flower House
We provide holistic care for female victims of sexual exploitation and trafficking due to substance use coercion.
We cultivate the purposes God has for His daughters by providing a safe place to heal in love, grow through accountability, and blossom with grace.
Prevent
Prevention starts with educating our community and raising awareness about human trafficking. Our trainings teach the basic inner-workings of the industry and the steps they can take to prevent another human trafficking victim.
Rescue
Our Community Outreach is designed to mobilize communities to provide relief for women who are living a life of addiction and desperation. We provide Holistic-Care Kits, Love, Education, and Housing as tools to plant seeds of hope for our starving flowers as they take the first-steps to a new life.
Restore
12-Step Groups, Intensive Outpatient Programming, In-Home Meetings, and multiple counseling programs are just some of the ways in which we restore strength and dignity to our blossoming flowers.
Our Partners
Sharlene M. Dominick, Executive Director
Sharlene’s crossroads came at 21 when she met the Lord. The Lord met her in rehab. Walked with her in the streets during homelessness, equipped her in crack houses and ministered to her in jail! Clean since 2-2-1998, she is blessed with a wonderful marriage and delightful children. She’s earned a BS in Human Services and MSOL (Master’s of Science in Organizational Leadership) from Geneva College. She is a published author of three devotionals (I Love Jesus, But I’m a Mess; My Pain Fuels My Purpose; and Faith & Recovery; It’s All Good) and a compilation called: Chronicles of a Soldier-My Journey to Wholeness. She has worked in Ministry/ Human Service field with many special populations (addicted women, adjudicated and addicted youth, homeless youth and young adults, Family Based Therapy and Urban ministry) for 20 years. Sharlene’s personal mission statement is: “To serve God by meeting the needs of people!” She is a “Survivor Leader” and lives out the promise of God’s faithfulness to work through all things- EVANGLIST
Garden Home Ministries Core Principles
Prayer
Those who prayed were better able to suppress their emotions and concentrate on the task at hand than those who did not pray before. Conversing with God is a form of social interaction which has been shown in other studies to help us resist temptation.
Love
It is a state of appreciation for oneself that grows from actions that support our physical, psychological and spiritual growth. When we act in ways that expand self-love in us, we begin to accept much better our weaknesses as well as our strengths, have less need to explain away our short-comings, have compassion for ourselves as human beings struggling to find personal meaning, are more centered in our life purpose and values, and expect living fulfillment through our own efforts.
educate
Education imparts knowledge, critical thinking skills, and in many cases an improved ability to approach unfamiliar situations and subjects with an open mind.
establish a culture of excellence
Setting for yourself a standard of excellence allows you to have something to fall back on when you’re unsure of what to do next. You’re faced with decision - the question you now need to ask is “If I want to live up to my standard of excellence, which is the best option?” From here - you choose that option. You now have something to push you in the right way - because you cannot let yourself fall below your standards.
Plant Seeds of Hope
Plant seeds of hope in your heart. Give them plenty of attention and love. Then watch as your beautiful dreams bloom.
cultivate the fruit of the spirit
Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, meekness, and self-control: These traits are essential to the Christian life. Trying to instill these traits into your lives on our own is like trying to grow apples without an apple tree. It just cannot be done. The fruit of the Spirit must be grown by the Holy Spirit in our lives. He is the one who does the work in us and produces His fruit.
Become a Gardener
Help Us Fight Against Trafficking & Sexual Exploitation.
Your contributions help us rescue at-risk women and enables us to walk with them down the path to recovery and restoration. By becoming a Garden Home Ministries' Gardener, your support will help these women bloom and flourish.
HOLISTIC-Care Kits
Housing: Sunflower Home
