The residents’ sentences ranged from one hour in a holding cell to 18 years in prison.  With no professional staff, but intensely dedicated employees and volunteers, the homes offered women a program that saw unusual success, with a 68 percent success rate of former residents staying clean, sober and law-abiding in society for two years or more.  This can only be attributed to the focus of the program on the women’s relationship with their Creator, knowing that change starts in the heart and mind, and works outward in behavior.

The average stay for a resident was six months, with the shortest stay two hours, and the longest two years.  Having served their purpose, three of these original homes eventually closed their doors.  But many of these original women continue to stay in contact with Mrs. Lodi, sometimes just to say they’re doing okay and other times looking for encouragement, counsel or prayer for some challenge in their life.